The Internet Is Arguing if Alien Is a Horror Movie
All movies have a genre, that handly classification that gives the viewer some sense of what they [...]
Horror is not defined by setting
prevnextHorror as a genre is defined by the emotions it evokes. ALIEN evokes those emotions. It’s all there—rising dread, very personal stakes, jump scares, the safe place made suddenly unsafe. That it’s set in space doesn’t change any of that—horror is not defined by setting.
— Kingfisher & Wombat (@UrsulaV) April 6, 2021
Why not both?
prevnextIt can be both sci-fi and horror. Film doesn't have to fit neatly into a single genre
— Shadowban Over Innsmouth (@Jess_D_Ripper) April 6, 2021
Maybe it's suspense
prevnextI’ve always thought Horror required a supernatural element; Hellraiser, Friday the 13th, Elm Street. If not, it’s Suspense.
— Gygaxian Cultist (@MontyYuanti) April 6, 2021
This fascinating take
prevnextIt’s horror. You can strip all of the sci-fi elements and replace them with more mundane ones and it would retain everything that makes it a horror film. If you strip the horror elements you lose the film entirely. The film centers on the horror.
— James Fernandez (@gothicpicasso) April 6, 2021
Monster movie
prevnextIt’s horror. You can strip all of the sci-fi elements and replace them with more mundane ones and it would retain everything that makes it a horror film. If you strip the horror elements you lose the film entirely. The film centers on the horror.
— James Fernandez (@gothicpicasso) April 6, 2021
Ripley is a Final Girl
prevnextIt’s horror. You can strip all of the sci-fi elements and replace them with more mundane ones and it would retain everything that makes it a horror film. If you strip the horror elements you lose the film entirely. The film centers on the horror.
— James Fernandez (@gothicpicasso) April 6, 2021
Jaws has entered the discourse
prevnextIt’s horror. You can strip all of the sci-fi elements and replace them with more mundane ones and it would retain everything that makes it a horror film. If you strip the horror elements you lose the film entirely. The film centers on the horror.
— James Fernandez (@gothicpicasso) April 6, 2021
Space horror
prevnextIt's space horror. It's absolutely a horror film. The tension, the ways in which the scenes are set and cut together... It just happens to be set in space.
— Bonnie (I am not a cat.) (@BatsInLavender) April 6, 2021
Haunted house
prevnextYes. It's a 'haunted house' movie
— Nick Rowntree (@NickRowntree7) April 6, 2021
And then there's this
prevALIEN is a horror film.
— KevinSmith (@ThatKevinSmith) April 6, 2021
ALIENS is an action movie.
ALIEN 3 is an art film.
ALIEN RESURRECTION is the @YogaHosers of their franchise. https://t.co/zrZTQYHgFS