So we all agree, or do i need to sik Angry Anderson on you!

even then i still think there is an almost measurable criteria for 'feeling' a horror movie vs a action/crime/drama

in an action movie like Mad Max .. generally the crimes are commited to show how bad the bad guys are and pump fuel into the revenge mode of the hero - and us.

in a horror the violence is usually done to make us feel extremely uncomfortable .. stretch our endurance for unpleasantness.

thay arent quick dirty violent deaths like the action films ... these are slow and horrible (thus horror !)

some times you'll see an action film blur the lines (kill bill) but then again - Tarantino has one foot in 70s grindhouse action and one in 70's grindhouse horror .....

I would not say it's horror either. Sci-fi/action. I still remember seeing Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome at the Drive-In when I was very little!!

I can'y believe it is such a debate!

It is sci-fi , set in the future, unless you are going to start nameing war films as horror, just because they have torture and slow deaths!

Everything is a horror movie!

The little mermaid, filled with freakish human-fish and human-mollusc hybrids!

High plains drifter.... Oooooo! a ghost! Spoooky!


The Matrix. Killer programs and robots shaped like bugs.


The Stupids. Tom Arnold in a lead role!

the fact alone that they talk and sing ...

can you imagine the horror of being out on the lake, 5:00am, you just snag a perch and as you're pulling it into the boat it goes :

"jesus christ you fat bastard, throw me back in, i cant breath - you prick !"


i think most people would feel horror at that point...

Not me. I would just smack the fucker on a rock.

And then say "How you like that BEOTCH"

THen I would cry.

yeah ... i'd cry too if i killed a talking fish ...

think of all the money you could make ..



unless it started singing : 'hello my baby, hello my darlin,"

at that point you'd just throw it back in ..

You obviously have never seen the film "The incredible Mister Limpet."

Watch that and tell me you dont want to kill every fish in the sea.

i have that very release :)

i love those old pre-tim conway don knotts films :D