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Originally Posted by evildemontoo
Question to (older) members of this board: Have you noticed how in this day and age alot of stuff gets classified by people as horror when it doesn't even come close to the genre
Yes!! you are so right!
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i think each of us has our own lines drawn in the sand that denotes horror from - lets say thriller.
personally i dont consider things like Se7en or Silence of the lambs as horror movies - to me they are crime thrillers.
I dont have too many hard/fast rules for it - i guess i think that if the film is highly exploitive - with only the goal of terrifying the audience (or deeply disgusting it) i consider it horror (i spit on your grave, last house of the left)
there are no cops - no mystery to solve .. etc .. just pure torture and revenge.
i also classify any film with a 'supernatural element' in it to be horror.
(ghosts, monsters, etc)
when the sci-fi and horror lines are blurred - i tend to keep those flicks in with sci-fi.
for the most part - as stated before - i file this way mainly for convenience - so i have a better chance of finding what movie i'm looking for.