[Fearonsarms]

This is to difficult for me to answer as fully as I'd like right now but horror to me scares me or is meant to scare me. I find giving things a label limits them and adds rules. And it is in the best of horror that you find rules being broken as to what a genre is expected to do. For this reason I find a lot of thrillers, war movies and sci fi etc to be scary and therefore "horror". I find that a lot of my fave movies are labelled horror so am attracted to that label. For me a non horror film doesn't scare you and isnt meant to. This does mean I consider a lot of things horror. For example a lot of people consider what they see on the news as horror. You also get more specific labels like supernatural horror, slashers, pyschological horror etc therefore we rely mostly on labels but they are usually defined by example. Difficult topic this it could really go anywhere as it opens all sorts of other questions about how horror has been defined through the ages.