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King argues that people enjoy horror movies because they allow viewers to experience danger and suspense without actual threat. He compares the thrills of horror movies to rollercoasters. King labels emotions elicited by "sick jokes" and horror films as "anticivilization" because they appeal to viewers' darker instincts. Both horror and sick jokes have the "dirty job" of releasing viewers' basest impulses. King believes this reveals an element of insanity in all people and that horror engages our latent potential for violence. His intrigued tone is evident in his bold claims about human nature and interest in how horror affects the mind.

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King argues that people enjoy horror movies because they allow viewers to experience danger and suspense without actual threat. He compares the thrills of horror movies to rollercoasters. King labels emotions elicited by "sick jokes" and horror films as "anticivilization" because they appeal to viewers' darker instincts. Both horror and sick jokes have the "dirty job" of releasing viewers' basest impulses. King believes this reveals an element of insanity in all people and that horror engages our latent potential for violence. His intrigued tone is evident in his bold claims about human nature and interest in how horror affects the mind.

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Matthew Daquelente

QFS & D #6

1. What, according to King, causes people to crave horror movies? What other reasons

can you add to Kings list?

King says the reason that people crave and enjoy horror movies is because were

all mentally ill, and those outside asylums hide it better than others. I also believe

people enjoy the suspense and danger of these movies while not actually being in

any imminent danger.

2. Identify the analogy King uses in paragraph 3, and explain how it works. (Glossary:

Analogy)

King compares a horror movie and what you experience during that to those of

the feelings you would encounter on a rollercoaster. He mentions the twists and

the 360s of the coasters and how much like horror films mostly appeals to a

younger crowd.

3. What emotions does society applaud? Why? Which ones does King label

anticivilization emotions (11)?


King begins this paragraph by labeling sick jokes as an anticivilization emotion.

Explaining that such a joke may cause a grin or laugh of some sort. But further

says that like all the best horror films they manage to be reactionary, anarchistic

and revolutionary all at the same time.

4. In what ways is a horror movie like a sick joke? What is the dirty job or effect,

that the two have in common (12)?


Their similarities are that they are deliberately created to appeal to the worst and

dark sides in all people. Also, it sets our morbidity free along with our base

instincts and our nastiest instincts.

5. King starts his essay with the attention-grabbing sentence, I think that were all

mentally ill. How does he develop this idea of insanity in his essay? What does King

mean when he says, The potential lyncher is in almost all of us (9)? How does

Kings last line relate to the theme of mental illness?


He develops this idea of insanity by explaining the attraction we have to horror

movies or things like that nature, that appeals to our worst side. Lynching is a

murder often by hanging, which is a common action in horror movies, saying that

this action potential is in all of us, which leads to the interest.

6. What is Kings tone? (Glossary: Tone) Point to particular words or sentences that

lead you to this conclusion.


I believe his tone is one of someone who is intrigued. What led me to this

conclusion is his bold statement in saying that were all mentally ill and that these

horror movies and for his analogy, the rollercoaster, appeal to our worst sides. He

also compares the likings of fairy-tales and horror movies, this leads me to believe

that he is intrigued in the way these movies affect us.

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