Settle this debate.
My cousin says that "Se7en" is a horror movie and it's not even debatable. I say it's not a horror movie.
shareI would call it a thriller, not a horror movie.
shareMe too. My cousin is on something.
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That's a hard one
Halloween (78) is listed as a thriller and a horror
The terms are often interchangeable
Oh I thought it was a comedy.
Depends on your idea of what horror is. To me it is kind of like the Saw films in parts and yes, I know this came first but my point is that Saw is seen as horror as far as I know. There are some horrific scenes in it.
I think your cousin has a point but horror isn't the point of the film so back to thriller with extreme brutality/horrific images?
I don't know. Let's say there's a movie about surgeons and they show a lot of blood and guys. I wouldn't consider that a horror. To me, Se7en falls in the thriller category. It's not really scary, nor do I feel it's trying to be. It just seems like an edge of your seat thriller.
shareThe intent is definitely to be a crime/thriller I agree. But there are Saw/Slasher type aspects to it even though there is a lot more psychological finesse about it than your average Saw/Slasher type film.
I guess these things are open to interpretation though. A lot of people don't consider things like Buffy and Supernatural to be sci fi but they seem to go in that category.
I have had this debate many a time. Horror involves something supernatural, monsters, aliens, witches and such. Se7en is a crime drama/thriller.
shareYeah...Se7en is a thriller designed to shake viewers.
shareI agree. There's nothing really scary about it. I don't consider Zodiac to be a horror either but that had scarier elements.
shareI disagree that horror involves the supernatural. A lot of slasher films are just average people killing other people.
shareI agree. A slasher film is unmistakably a sub genre of horror.
Go into a Blockbuster back in the day and what section do you find all the slasher films in?
I respectfully disagree. Psycho is classified as horror but it's a slasher flick. That's doesn't mean it can't be scary or have horrific scenes.
shareI'm saying that slasher is a sub-genre of horror. I was simply refuting
Horror involves something supernatural, monsters, aliens, witches and such.Some of my favourite horrors have not a single supernatural element. 😀 That was all
In my opinion, Se7en is a crime thriller.
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My beef is that too many movies are being classified as horror. A movie like Green Room is classified as horror. It is a crime drama about violent Neo-Nazis.
shareIt's a pet peeve as mine as well. Especially when I'm looking for a horror to watch and I get directed to a drama that has a murder.
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