Stephen King Argument

Stephen King Argument Essay We are all mad here. Granted that was what Stephen King explained in his essay ¨Why We Crave Horror movies?¨, Stephen King claims that most people are mentally ill maybe some more that others because we desire the experience of being in an horror movie. Stephen King also thinks that horror movies provide emotional relief. I'm one of two minds when it comes to King's essay. On the one hand Stephen king is partially right when claiming that people who crave horror movies are mentally ill, he is also right when he claims that horror movies help us go back to our childhood by freeing us from grey and go back to seeing black and white; however, his views regarding that horror movies provides emotional relief can not be accepted because it makes people feel worse than they did before.

For example when stephen king talks about Freda Jackson in Die, Monster, Die! in comparison to Robert Redford and Diana Ross. He gives us the sense of normality when he talks about these people because we might not be as pretty as Diana Ross. In fact Stephen King himself said in his essay that, ¨we are still light years from true ugliness.”(King, 1), Some people might watch these movies because they want that sense of normality, but other people watch them because it takes away the grey and gives us the liberty of going back and enjoying the black and