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Halloween Sci-fi. The Terminator.


Lots of people consider this movie just sci-fi action, at least most of the people I know, so is this also horror? I think so at least in a sub category. Thought's?

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I would consider the Terminator horror in the sense that it's horrifying and speaks to the ideals of a dark future of robots and people ideating towards maliciousness, crime, evil and general discord. I blog about it. This post is about the movie 'Alien' but I think it applies to Terminator as it's the same groups of directors with the same dark ideologies. Robocop, Alien, Terminator and so on. https://medium.com/@brendanmurphy_89608/alien-franchise-of-evil-661fbe9772f7

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Sci-fi Thriller with a Horror (particularly slasher) vibe. For me, it remains the best Terminator film for that reason.

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