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horror movies are intended to scare the audience. People hate being scared, yet they watch horror movies. The article "Why we Crave Horror Movies" by famous horror writer Stephen King, explains why we want to watch horror movies even if we are scared of it. People agree with his reasoning as he provides examples and logical explanations.

Stephen King states that we crave horror movies because people have anticivilization emotions. Anticivilization emotions make us love horror movies because they demand “periodic exercise.” The excitement from fear, disgust, panic and other negative emotions is uncommon at everyday life, because they are generally considered ‘uncivilized’. People try to feel and exercise it by watching horror movies.. Horror movies make us see things that are not openly encouraged in real life, such as fear and violence, yet allows us to experience them without requiring us to act them out I real life.. Our anticivilization emotions have to be released in a way, so that we can keep the emotions from getting out.

Catharsis is a release of pent-up emotions and, according to Stephen King, may be why that people crave horror movies. He wrote that people are insane because they are afraid of the dark, or talk to themselves. Horror movies allows people to release their insanity by enjoying things that are looked upon negatively in everyday life. Stephen King describes this as keeping the “gators fed”. The gators represent your inner beast, and they must be fed to stop from getting out of you. Since many people keep the gators fed by watching horror movie, they maintain normalcy.

People like to feel normal. Stephen King suggests that we crave horror movies because people want to understand that everyone has a ‘potential lyncher’ in him or her. When people see other people doing acts of violence in the movie, people feel normal when they are watching it. This makes people to feel normal, because, in the movie, the character does acts of violence, which can not be acted out. It also shows people that others have anticivilization emotions just like them.

The article “Why we crave horror movies,” by Stephen King, explains to us why we crave horror movies through explanations and examples. Stephen King says that we need to release our anticivilization emotions periodically to maintain normalcy,. Horror movies are a form of entertainment, but also a way to maintain our insanity.