This was on tv and the description for the movie had (scifi/horror) next to it. The sun flares in the beginning of the movie and the radio talking about strange happenings that they're somehow affected by the flares, then the guys are talking about astrology signs too in there and there are shots of the sun later on, that the crazyness is caused by strange cosmic forces. This is a science fiction element to the story. What do you think?

It's Horror. The TV description probably just used a broad category label...

No.

I tried finding a copy of The Elephant Man once in a Borders store and they had it in with the horror section. It made me sad.

It's a stretch for anyone to classify this is as sci-fi. A really, really long stretch.

Fiction = yes but Scifi is a big no. It amazes me that every year I have to explain to at least 1 or 2 groups of students that this movie was not a true story but simply loosely based around one individual that didn't even live in texas or use a chainsaw.

Not to go off topic, but wasn't it some guy in Wisconsin?

^ Assuming we're talking about Ed Gein, yes he lived in Wisconsin.

Had I read that, I'd have assumed that the (scifi/horror) tag meant one or the other, not both.

In fact, no one in Texas has ever been killed with a chainsaw!

I love this movie, it is in no way scifi.

Haven't you seen the deleted footage where Sally escapes by flying off in her spaceship?

I look at it as a generic tag, the way that sci-fi and fantasy often get lumped together in bookstores.

I've always viewed Saw as a rom-com.

Yes, it's Sci-Fi.
Not.

The same with that popular TCM sequel, Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation based on the presence of Matthew McConaughey

Try living in Texas and trying to explain that...I hear he's in the Huntsville prison here blah blah blah.

If you make the mistake of considering the horrendously-bad TCM: The Next Generation canon then, yes, it prob. could be sci-fi.

But that film doesn't exist to me.

well at the very least it has a scifi element then.

no it doesnt.

While the credits sequence is ambiguous, like many forms of art, the sun flares combined with the radio of weird things happening basically alludes that it may have something to do with it. This is a science fiction element.

At least it's arguably closer than the other two movies that are partially inspired by Gein: Psycho and Silence of the Lambs.

Texas Chain Saw, no. Nothing accounted for the actions of the Sawyer family other than they were demented and sick. Those on the radio were offering a supposition about sun flares. No actual connection, though.

On a vaguely related note, I think an argument could be made that Maximum Overdrive is a sci-fi/horror tale. The earth passes through the tail of a comet, bringing machines to life and causing them to kill. Definite horror, but with a clear sci-fi undertone.

--THX

Well chainsaws were science fiction in 1874, so I vote yes.

That and doesn't the coda at the end mention aliens? Plus, machines coming to life seems like more than a sci-fi undertone.