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This 3 page report discusses
the concepts writer Stephen King outlines in his 1981 essay titled “Why We Crave Horror
Movies.” Bibliography lists only the primary source.
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genre and, as such, has come to understand of certain aspects of the human psyche. In Kings essay "Why We Crave Horror Movies," originally published in Playboy in January, 1981,
and now a part of a number of anthologies ranging from modern culture to film studies, he explains his theories. His key premise is that horror movies are a substitute
for acting out aggressive human, especially American, tendencies. He also believes that virtually everybody has some sort of aspect of mental illness, whether it is an irrational fear of spiders,
the tendency to talk out loud to ones self, or an entire host of "harmless" obsessions, beliefs, and behaviors. "Anticivilization Emotions" King describes violence as an example
of an "anticivilization emotion." Obviously, violent behaviors, antisocial attitudes, paranoia, and so on go against the grain of what constitutes a "civil" or "polite" society. Certain aspects of the human
creature, what King thinks of as humans inherent violence are fundamentally incompatible with maintaining such "civility." Almost everybody has experienced a "murderous" rage or a moment of utter (and baseless)
fear and knows what those emotions feel like and how deep they go. King makes an inarguable statement when he writes: "If we are all insane, than sanity becomes a
matter of degree." The difference is, according to King, is that those who are completely insane and unable to function in the "normal" world are those people who see, hear,
feel, and acknowledge their personal demons on a more or less constant basis. The rest of the population only has demons lurking within them. The comparison King makes is that
those demons lurk like alligators, just below the surface, dangerous and deadly. Horror movies offer those watching them the opportunity to abandon their civilized pose and, as King explains it,
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