Outline
- Introduction
- Opening Statement
- The paper will be discussing the impact of horror movies on individuals. According to Steve King humans, enjoy watching horror movies because they are enjoying watching other people suffering. Horror movies are films involving the content of death and suffering among individuals. Although not everyone who watches horror movies enjoys them. Some people fear watching horror movies since they develop aftermaths because of the disturbing images.
- The paper will also discuss The Masque of the Red Death characters relate to Man from the South characters. It will engage in an in-depth analysis of King’s argument on why humans crave horror movies.
- Thesis Statement
- This paper will be trying to analyze critically how horror movies influence the human character and whether they have any effect on human behavior.
- Body Paragraph #1
- Topic Sentence
- Evidence
- Humans pay considerable fees to go and watch horror movies in cinema rooms. Some spend a lot of time in their comfort zone at home to catch up with several episodes of horror movies. Attention to such movies means that they are attractive to people, and most of them enjoy watching them. Spending time to watch these movies when one could engage in other activities means that there is a real lesson that people desire to learn from them.
- Concluding sentence
- The rate at which people spend time watching horror movies is a sign of craving and that the movies have some importance in their lives relatively.
- Opening Statement
- Body Paragraph #2
- Topic Sentence
- The characters in horror movies play various roles, and they reveal different attributes according to the roles that they play. There is a relationship between Steve King’s ideas and the characters in the Masque of the Red death
- Evidence
- Steve King argues that all characters are the same in horror movies as all of them are usually involved in violent and killing acts.
- However, the victims of killings happen to be of different attributes as they look out to be humble and harmless compared to those responsible for their deaths and suffering.
- Concluding sentence
- It is essential to understand characters for horror movies as they are usually in similar situations, but they have diverse attributes.
- Body Paragraph #3
- Topic Sentence
- The film Man from the South has a closer connection with other films in terms of plot and the roles of the characters.
- Evidence
- Both “Man from the South” and other horror movies contain violence in the film, and most characters are involved in brutal acts on others.
- Concluding Sentence
- The events in this film and the roles played by the characters bring out a close relationship among horror movies as all of them display the same theme and attributes of the characters.
- Conclusion
- Summative Statement
- Individuals who engage in watching horror movies for a long time tend to acquire some character from the movies, and their behaviors are usually related to the behaviors of the characters within these movies.
- Supportive Sentences
- Most of the people consider watching horror movies to learn and acquire various behaviors from them
- The characters and events in these movies have a strong influence on the viewers, and in most cases, they attract them into acting as the characters in the movies.
- Summative Statement
- Topic Sentence
- Topic Sentence
- However. A few people watch such movies for leisure and thus it does not affect their behavior in any way
- Concluding Sentence
- Horror movies have a strong influence on the viewers in terms of behavior and conduct while they do not suffer a strong influence because of their objective for watching such movies.
Work Cited
King, Stephen. “Why we crave horror movies.” Short Essays for Composition (1981): 524.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Masque of the red death. Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing, 2019.
The Haunted Manor House. “Man from the South.” https://youtu.be/Hx8yTU_VOkQ, 20 June 2019,