Mentally Ill In Stephen King's Why We Crave Horror Movies

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Stephen king’s Why we crave horror movies was a great story and it got the point through but he went about getting the point out there the wrong way. This is because he makes it seem as if we all are mentally ill and have a dark side that is digging to get out. Stephen king though says “I think that we're all mentally ill,” at the beginning of the paper which got most people mad from the beginning, because for the most part people who like scary things usually don't like to be referred to as mentally ill for something that they like.
Stephen King also refers to our fairytale stories and the movies of them as to Gavin a dark side as well. Like Beauty and the Beast which has a public lynching scene which is toward the end when the group of people
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