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Why We Crave Horror MoviesBy Stephen KingI think that weÕre all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it alittle better Ð and maybe not all that much better, after all. WeÕve all known people whotalk to themselves, people who sometimes squinch their faces into horrible grimaceswhen they believe no one is watching, people who have some hysterical fear Ð of snakes,the dark, the tight place, the long drop . . . and, of course, those final worms and grubsthat are waiting so patiently underground.When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in atheater showing a horror movie, we are daring the nightmare.Why? Some of the reasons are simple and obvious. To show that we can, that weare not afraid, that we can ride this roller coaster. Which is not to say that a really goodhorror movie may not surprise a scream out of us at some point, the way we may screamwhen the roller coaster twists through a complete 360 or plows through a lake at thebottom of the drop. And horror movies, like roller coasters, have always been the specialprovince of the young; by the time one turns 40 or 50, oneÕs appetite for double twists or360-degree loops may be considerably depleted.We also go to re-establish our feelings of essential normality; the horror movie isinnately conservative, even reactionary. Freda Jackson as the horrible melting woman inDie, Monster, Die! confirms for us that no matter how far we may be removed from thebeauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light-years from true ugliness.And we go to have fun.Ah, but this is where the ground starts to slope away, isnÕt it? Because this is a
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