Summary: this week we read "why we crave horror movies" By Stephan King. In the essay he writes about why he thinks we crave Horror movies. In his essay he states that "We're mentally ill". He rights about how we all have something inside of us that likes to watch these horrible things happen in these movies  because we know we cant do these things in reality. King writes that we all have these alligators in our mind that need to be feed, and since we cant feed them ourselves by doing the things people do in horror movies like killing, we go to horror movies to feed these alligators. King also writes that we go to these movies to basically face those fears of the dark, tight spaces or what ever our fear may be.

Response: Before I read this essay I never thought of the point that king makes, that we go to horror movies to feed this craving we have in our head. After reading his essay I can agree with his point that we are all a little mentally ill and we crave horror movies to feed these "alligators" that we have in our head. But I also think people just like horror movies for the feeling of getting scared or the adrenalin rush we get not knowing what will happen next.