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"Why We Crave Horror Movies"


In the essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies” by Stephen King the author tries to prove that the modern day horror movie is are relief of violence, are fix of adrenaline and fun, and also something that can dare the nightmare. In a lot of ways these things can be related to real life situations. My relief of violence is playing video games, and my fix of fun and adrenaline is when I play football, and something that dares my nightmare is when I challenge my brother.

In the essay, “Why We Crave Horror Movies”, Steven King explains that the modern day horror movie is our relief for violence it is what feeds the gator. He uses horror movies because of there violent nature. We all need to be able to step outside life’s boundaries and certain horror movies can do this for us. It can let us see things that in normal everyday life cannot be possible. In the essay Steven say’s, “We are told we may allow our emotions a free rein.”(444) Trying to hint that a good horror movie can do this......


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