What do you believe qualifies a movie as horror?
 

What do you think should be the qualifications for a movie to be called horror? Does it have to make you horrified? Scared? Does it have to have blood and guts? If that is the case, why is Faces Of Death not classified as horror? I know the images are real, but so what? It's designed for the same purpose - to horrify you. Does the movie have to remind you of your own mortality? Does it have to have supernatural elements?

What do YOU think qualifies a movie as horror?

someone dying in a non comedic way

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I think if the intention of the movie is to cause fear, it is horror, even if the movie is so terrible it doesnt actually scare anyone.

also, if it uses horror themes, at least partially in a serious note. Scary movie, although it uses horror themes, is a comedy, not even remotely horror.

Unless you count chris elliot as hanson....

"Take my little hand!" jesus that made me cringe....

If the movies main theme is centered around a killer/killers, (human,monster,demon,ghost,etc...) and the other actors are trying to avoid, and eventually kill. Thats a horror movie for me, Friday the 13th/Texas Chainsaw are perfect examples.

A thriller for me, is more a heroic, evil over good thing. like with Terminator that is a sci-fi/thriller, IMO.

Hmmm.... Good thread....



I can tell you that I think just because a movie has ghosts, doesn't make it a horror movie. People always try to call 6th Sense horror, but I don't think it is. It's suspense. Just because there is ghosts does not instantly prequalify it as a horror movie. No one tries to say that gay as movie with Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore, 'Ghost' is a horror movie, so I'm sick of people thinking that a ghost = horror.

did we ask for your opinion oh wait we did lol

Any film with a young, nude Jamie Lee Curtis in it is a horror film. Any film with an old, nude Jamie Lee Curtis in it is unintentionally a horror film LOL. ok. I made all that up. I need more sleep....
CK

For me its the movies that could remotely happen, Psycho, TCM, etc.

even the movies like NOES, F13, and Halloween could in some way become real, if you gave some 7 foot freak a bag of PCP and a machette, he would for all intensive purposes be pretty unstoppable. and with the psycho's in today's society its like they are going for that headline, so I can picture some sick fuckin pedophile strapping on a bladed glove and terrorizing a quiet unsuspecting neighborhood. no he wont really get them in their dreams but you can damn sure bet a whole lotta kids will be asking for a nightlight.

Scary thing is, Je Suis, 'TCM' and 'Psycho' actually are based on real stories. Well, the same story actually, good ol' all-American cannibal/graverobber/necropheliac/murderer/'he was always such a quiet man' Ed Gein. They just don't make 'em like that any more. I had my picture taken on his grave about 13 years ago. I'd love to get that back from an ex-girlfriend after all these years.
CK

Oh sure they do, they just dont catch them that often :D