You're right: IMDb lists primary genres as Drama / Thriller. It also lists:

Hanged Family
Therapeutic Alliance
Child Psychologist
Stuttering
Able To See The Dead
Spiral Staircase
Twist In The End
Mother Son Relationship
Urination Scene
Blockbuster
Paranormal
Misfit
Supernatural
Poison
Extrasensory Perception
Ghost
Fear
Hanged Child
Death
Single Mother
Wine Cellar
Zoloft
Psychological Drama
Hitchcockian
Sixth Sense
Writer Director
Realization
School Play
Compassion
Hero
Human Relationship
Love
Redemption
Tragedy
Able To Hear The Dead
Blood
Bully
Bus Ride
Child
Chilled Air
Church
Enlightenment
Funeral
Hidden Camera
Kid
Loving
Misunderstanding
Sanctuary
School
Secret
Solemn
Soul
Spiritual
Spirit
Suspense
Switch
Teacher
Toy
VCR Tape
Vomiting
Christ Allegory
Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy
Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Psychiatrist
Pennsylvania
Child In Peril
Conspiracy
Director Cameo
Filicide
Flashback Sequence
Murderess
Road Accident
Sex With The Dead

No mention of horror :confused:

i got into this with someone before .. cant remember who ..

its my personal filing mentality ... i pop anything fantastical or supernatural into the horror bucket. (otherwise i cant find shit in my collection)

you'll find that a lot of horror guides do the same thing though ..
they are even more rediculous .. including stuff even i wouldnt consider.

Or rather laughing at and cashing in on a genre as it's on its way out?

Already been done with the slashers and zombies, and probably the "psychological horrors" in Scary Movie.

Don't you just love it when a Haute Tension, Blair Witch or Irreversible comes along these days to sort people's heads out?

That makes sense, I guess horror doesn't just have to be something that solely attempts to scare you.

It's like other genres that have films that lean in certain directions...Drama comedy,romantic comedy,dramactic thriller ect. Don't see why horror can't be the same.

you'll find that horror doesnt exist too well on its own ..
its usually grouped in with sci-fi, exploitation, and fantasy as the lines often get blurred.

i prefer to think of them as Genre films ..

I guess it's like that because of the word horror. Drama,Comedy and other genres have broad descriptioins while on the other hand people hear the word horror and assume it's gotta be something completely scary.


I've only had this conversation about the horror genre, you never hear a dicussion about whether a film is or isn't qualified(for lack of a better word) for any other particular genre.

Horror films cease to be horror when they make a boatload of cash in Hollywood's eyes. But it is certainly a horror film. A boy sees dead people for god sake.

My votes are as follows:

Hostel
High Tension
American Psycho
A Tale Of Two Sisters
The Devil's Rejects
In The Mouth Of Madness
Scream(Yes Scream)
Se7en

Everyone hates Scream on these boards, but without it, there would be no horror coming to your cinemas today. It's a very sadistic film, that just happens to be ironic, which is the only way a horror film could have been made in the mid 90's. Go back and look at the horror releases that actually made it to theaters between '90 and '95, and you'll see what I mean.

i never hated Scream .. i thought it was a treat for horror fans ..

i didnt thing Mouth of Madness was very good though ..
certainly not influential in the least..

I thought In the Mouth of Madness did Lovecraft like it should be done. nothing too special other than that, but I liked it.

I didn't like Dead & Breakfast. there was too much humor, terrible music, etc. but I did like Shaun of the Dead quite a bit. it was a bit more tasteful, the humor was actually funny, and the scares were actually pretty good.

I guess I would put Audition in there, besides most of the ones already mentioned.

I don't hate Scream; in fact, I like it quite a bit. I think the first two are well-made films and are actually very clever.....a little too clever in some ways....it effected how other horror films were made and since Scream couldn't be replicated, we got hit with some crap. I mean, the movie was so self-aware that it came off as poking fun at the genre in some ways rather than as an homage, which I think it was intended to be. So I think it actually does fit on the list, as it was a very influential film, I just don't think that the influence was entirely positive.