In the article that was required reading called Stephen Kings Why we
             Crave Horror Movies, the author gives us the audience a little overview of his
             many accomplishments in the film and writing world. In doing this he is letting
             us know that whatever his argument is in this persuasive article, he has some
             sort of background in this field and that he knows a little bit more than the
             average person, since it is his career.
             Throughout the article, he stses his argument about how he feels about
             society today and how they view horror films. In the first line of text he bluntly
             refers to us as being mentally ill and goes on to say "those of us outside the
             asylums only hide it a little better-and mabey not all that much better after all."
             He goes on further to let us the audience know the reasoning why he feels this
             way and how he came to this odd and some what insulting conclusion about
             He also refers our uncontrollable urge to participate in this act of
             enjoying to watch horror films as a sick way of having fun. Ah, but this is
             where the ground starts to slope away, isn't it? Because this is a very peculiar
             sort of fun, indeed. The fun comes from seeing others menaced--sometimes
             killed. One critic has suggested that if pro football has become the voyeur's
             version of combat, then the horror film has become the modern version of
             public lynching. In saying this, King is letting his audience know how extreme
             this whole subject has gone in the matters of the madness that we all
             supposedly have locked inside of us. He uses expressive words like menaced
             and public lynching to over exaggerate the whole topic and mabey get a little
             bit of a rise out of the whole idea that society is actually that cruel, and/or
             Although it may seem that he is trying to make us mad at him, and/or
             feel resentment toward his views on us, he seems like he just wants us to
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