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IMO Alien is sci-fi/horror and Jaws is horror/thriller.
I would classify Predator as sci-fi/action.

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This.

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I've always considered Jaws an "Adventure" movie with "Thriller" elements throughout.

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^ That I agree with.

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Some of these movies are tough calls. I've always considered Predator "sci-fi action", but I would be okay with Alien being called a horror movie.

Jaws almost defies categorization. On paper I guess it's mostly horror, but with some of Williams's music and a lot of the early action out on the ocean with those three, it's much more upbeat, thrilling adventure, IMO.

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Jaws is the best film ever made in pretty much every genre category; adventure, action, horror, comedy, thriller, drama.

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I don't know, I found the Predator himself pretty scary, especially when I was very young. The whole Predator POV stuff is really freaky, and it turns from a standard action movie and turns it on its head with the team being hunted and stalked. I think because it mainly stars tough dudes that it isn't considered horror. While that's not typical for a horror movie cast, you can feel the dread the characters have in the second half of the film. If Alien is a horror film, then so is Predator, at least for me.

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You forgot gay romance.

I think you are right with this, to me it makes a big difference. In a film like Alien you wonder if anyone is going to survive or destroy the Alien. In a film like Predator starring a bunch of badasses and their guns I did not feel a sense of dread like Alien. First time watching it in the theater I knew that no matter what, the Predator was eventually going to loose.

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1. Night of the Creeps
2. Fright Night (1985)
3. Halloween
4. Halloween III--Season of the Witch
5. Halloween II

All but one of these are from the 80s--in which I posit that 80s horror rules.

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1. Dawn of the Dead
2. Phantasm
3. The Haunting
4. Suspiria
5. The Prince of Darkness

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^ and ^^ Hey! Stop trying to get the thread back on track.

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Fallen
Ginger Snaps
The Ninth Gate
The Shining
The Thing

(if by top is meant the most re-watched)

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While this isn't the gold standard of demarcation, there isn't a single supernatural element in Predator. The creature is only intimidating because it's a strange alien and has advanced technology beyond Earth's technology.

Alien is a tougher call. Much of it is actually framed like a horror movie, though it is based in a pure sci-fi space setting. HR Giger did such an incredible job designing the aliens' look that it may actually be a horror film. Giger's design was so brilliantly creepy.

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You and Jaws need to get a room.

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phantasm

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That's fine and dandy that you got scared. That's you. I saw that movie before I can even remember, that I do know. I've never been scared of it. It's got a creepy and at times disturbing vibe to it cuz The Predator is all that and much more. It's the alien hunter, he's a ugly motherfucker that is scary. The film doesn't intend to consistently terrify or disturb you though. Alien does. Alien, set in a purely Science Fiction world... does intend to scare you. It violates the body and the sense, the xenomorph. It's a disturbing entity. Again.. it's the horror genre format in narrative to propel you into the plot cuz it's a slasher type of skeleton for the film to use. The muscle is literally the team of badasses you follow into this jungle kicking ass and going down in all kinds of ways.

Horror films intend to to scare you as its main objective. Predator doesn't intend to do that at all. It uses scare elements but it's main point isn't that. It's the action. Amazingly enough... Predator doesn't get a lot of credit for it's plot. It's an action film but it's got an amazingly strong and lean plot too. It carries you along w/ the team and you know about as much as they do. Unlike Die Hard, Predator to me is a much more higher quality and standard. Die Hard is all iconic and whatnot.. and it deserves to be a classic... but it's got a lot of fat to it.


Yeah. I wasn't around to see Predator in theaters but when it was in video.. I knew as a kid that Arnold was making it out. I didn't know how and I knew it was going to be a tough bitch in winning the fight... but I knew he was going to survive.

Aside from setting, it's all horror driven in its structure. It's visuals drive you to be scared and disturbed. The xenomorph is a violation of the human body. There's all kinds of things that solidify it as a horror. It's an insanely perfect balance of two genres. It's horror and science fiction, a marble cake. It's all mixed so well that you can't really separate the two. both elements need each other to be the film that it is.

Goddamnit. Now I want to see Alien. Fuck. That BD set is such a perfect product, color timing aside... it's literally the best BD set around just based on specs.

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In Predator, the native woman talks about the really hot summers, which always seems to bring the strange killings of men, and you do get a sense of the history/folklore of the predators. Plus I think a bunch of badasses getting killed one by one is pretty frightening. It's by sheer luck Schwarzenegger lives because he was covered in mud. After that, yes, it's more of a man vs alien movie, but before that it might as well be a slasher movie with a practically invincible killer. And yeah, that's my opinion, but to say that horror is one set standard or has to be one type of storytelling is a pretty limited viewpoint. Just because you didn't feel a sense of dread doesn't mean others don't.

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My top five - note the first three are from the '70's:

Burnt Offerings

The Sentinel

Let's Scare Jessica to Death

Silent Hill (2006)

Dawn of the Dead re-make (2004)

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:thumbsup:

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LOL! Thanks for that.

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Night of the Living Dead (1968)
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
The Exorcist (1973)
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile
Don't Look Now
Onibaba
Maniac (1980)
Nightmare (Nightmares in a Damaged Brain)

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The Sentinel is a greatly underrated horror movie.

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Indeed. It's in my top ten, so it just missed the cut for this thread. I wish Cristina Raines had done more films rather than have her career go the way of countless TV series guest appearances.

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1. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
2. A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984)
3. Dawn of The Dead (1978)
4. Let The Right One In (2008)
5. Haute Tension (2003)