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| View Poll Results: "Aliens"...horror or not horror film? | |||
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68 | 43.87% |
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71 | 45.81% |
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5 | 3.23% |
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8 | 5.16% |
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2 | 1.29% |
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04-19-06, 10:48 AM
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"Aliens"...horror or not horror film?
Well, after so much back and forth in this thread .... Horror Movies
i want to see the general public's (we DVD Talkers) consensus of what genre to label the movie "Aliens"(1986), the 2nd in a fine quadrilogy. bear in mind that the horror film category carries a broad spectrum of other genres as clearly defined at reputable sights... 1. "Some horror films owe a substantial amount to other genres, particularly science fiction, fantasy and the thriller." --- Wikipedia 2. "A horror film is a film dominated by elements of horror...Some horror films exhibit a substantial amount of cross-over with other genres, particularly science fiction." --- explanation-guide.info 3. "Horror films are often combined with science fiction when the menace or monster is related to a corruption of technology, or when Earth is threatened by aliens." --- filmsite.org I highlight science fiction because that is where this debate heats up with some labeling it as an action/science fiction film only . I disagree and say it is all that and a very frightful horror film. So forget formal and informal definitions, use your first instinct, gut, or simply where you placed in your DVD collection... basically YOUR opinion to answer the question of what genre you think the film "Aliens" should be placed in.
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04-19-06, 10:50 AM
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I've always thought of Alien as a horror film and Aliens as an action film.
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04-19-06, 10:59 AM
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I voted action/sci-fi. I associate horror with something scary. Alien I associate more closely with horror than I ever would Aliens.
Aliens to me is an action movie that happend to be sci-fi. I don't really recall a horror/scary moment. Lot's of "that's cool" and "wow" moments, but nothing scary for me.
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ALIENS has:
a) butt-kicking marines blowing away everything under the sun with some of the most wicked harware ever filmed = ACTION b) intergalactic spacecraft, cyrogenic chambers, terraforming colonies = SCIENCE FICTION c) hordes of blood-curdling, relentlessly pursuing insectoid aliens that devour their human prey or use them as living incubators for their offspring, which then hatch out of their human hosts' chests in a spray of blood and organs while said hosts still live: HORROR It's all three or its none of them. |
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04-19-06, 12:26 PM
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I always saw it as horror even before I saw it thanks to Fangoria. They mention it in the editorial in their 150th issue as one of the good horror films to come out in the last 15 years. I think if you look at definition of horror as black and white, then no it isn't horror. If you see there is a lot of grey in the definition, then i can see how someone would put it in that catagory.
To me, horror has probably 100 subcatagories, and Aliens fits in there somewhere.
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04-19-06, 12:36 PM
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I voted "Horror only" until I realized this was about Aliens with an "S". My bad.
My action vote: Action with a touch of sci-fi.
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04-19-06, 01:21 PM
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Sci Fi Action Horror is what I call it.
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04-19-06, 01:23 PM
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I haven't seen it, but since scott1598 thinks it's "horror/action/science fiction" I voted
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Action/Science Fiction.
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04-19-06, 01:40 PM
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Action/Sci-fi...and one of the best ever at that.
Horror...mmmmm....not so much.
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04-19-06, 02:13 PM
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I love the movie and its one of my favorite movies of all time....
but i know that its action/sci-fi. "Alien" would be horror/sci-fi, "Aliens" is flat out action/sci-fi.
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I voted all 3, although i can see why its far less horror then the other two.
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just because a movie has laser guns or spaceships in it dosent automatically mean its a sci-fi movie.
in my opinion, something is only truly "sci-fi" when it explores the changes technology or progress has on the human experience. thats why Alien is a horror movie, and Aliens an action movie. You can take a movie with a very similar plot to Aliens ("Deep Rising" with treat williams comes to mind) and that is not a sci-fi movie by any stretch. in my opinion most movies have a "genre" and a "setting" Romeo and Juliet (with DiCaprio and Danes) is a Shakespeare adaptation set in modern times. Shanghai Noon is a comedic action/buddy movie that happens to be set in the old west, its not a Western. Last edited by Hospitaller; 04-19-06 at 02:47 PM. |
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04-19-06, 02:51 PM
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All of the above: Action/Sci Fi/Horror.
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