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Originally Posted by neverending
I don't think a lot of the kaiju movies are meant to scare anyone- the protagonists are children and the action is cartoonish. They're children's movies. However, I think some can be considered horror movies, particularly Gojira and some of the other early productions. Also, the scale of violence can be considered- how much destruction is there? Destroy All Monsters would count, as would Godzilla Vs. the Smog Monster.
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That makes sense. Although I think there is a such thing as children's horror, I like to treat children's movies as an entirely separate universe of film, where first and foremost, they are children's movies, and within that realm, they can be fantasy, action, adventure, horror, educational, etc.