What does King mean in paragraph 4 when he says that horror movies are “innately conservative, even reactionary”? What does he mean in paragraph 11 when he calls them “anarchistic, and revolutionary”?

Answer 1

He means that the movie is interesting to us from the beginning and that it also can be realistic to everyday life.

Answer 2

what does king means when in paragraph 2 when he says When we pay our four or five bucks and seat ourselves at tenth-row center in a theater showing a
horror movie, we are daring the nightmare.