Why We Crave Horror Stories

Shanice Jones

Core 101

9/09/2012

Why We Crave Horror Movies: Reading Log #1

I did not expect this story to be as outrageous as it is. I expected it to be boring and not catch my attention at all. The first line is what definitely caught my eye he said, “I think that we’re all mentally ill; those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better – and maybe not all that much better, after all”. When Stephen King made that statement, it made me think about things that I never usually think about. I am a person that is outside the asylum and maybe I am a little crazy. Maybe I am crazy because if I was trying out for the cheer team I might try to do something that I have never done before, let’s say a backflip and put myself in danger of breaking something just to make the team. It also made me think about the people who decide to drink and drive those are the crazy people. Drunk drivers know the harm they could cause to themselves and the people around them, but they put their lives in danger and other people’s lives in danger. So I do agree with him maybe the people outside of the asylums are just as crazy as the people inside the asylum like he said.

Stephen King speaks of a sick joke, “What’s the difference between a truckload of bowling balls and a truckload of dead babies? (You can’t unload a truckload of bowling balls with a pitchfork).” Well I have also heard a sick joke. Why are Mexicans jealous of Jews? (Mexicans are jealous of Jews because they can fit more people in the ashtray of the car than Mexicans can fit people in the car). That joke was sick, it was racist. So I absolutely agree with Stephen King when he says, “The Mythic…like the sick joke has a dirt job to do. It deliberately appeals to all that is worst in us”. The worst in some people is racism, or maybe it is just the desire to hurt others. That is why I also agree with what he said about the joke bringing out the worst in us. Only someone racist would find that joke to be funny, or only...