It would have been more popular as a horror movie

For the love of god, it was a book by toni morrison dealing emancipated slaves, and what a mother had to do to her child so she wouldn't have to live as a slave.


I mean, I really don't like the book, but I would have been pissed off if something like that happened, it's like saying, "hey they should have made munich an action movie, and focused on the action, cause the drama sucks."

but it wasn't meant to be a horror film, it was meant to be about an escaped slave woman who decided she would kill her children first before allowing them to be bought back into slavery but only one died as a result and the spirit of the baby was the angry spirit inside the house. Go read the book, it's confusing at first but with the movie visuals you better understand it. the only thing that's a horror was slavery and the effects it had on those who were slaves.

I agree, maybe if it was marketed as 'horror' it might have done better at the box office.

Some scenes were indeed horrific.

It was horrifying, all right. Not the "Freddie Kruger" type of horror, but slavery is about as horrible as it gets, and when you have spirits invading bodies, and yaddie, yaddie, yaddie, you get a scary movie. I think Oprah's acting was pretty frightening, too. Did she take acting lessons from Madonna?

I think the majority of you have completely missed the point of the movie. Maybe if you read the book...or just paid attention while you watched the movie you'd get the message. And while i had a damn hard time gettin through the book and even the movie i still realize that this movie was not a "typical hollywood movie" where the actors/directors/writers etc are just out to make a dollar.

I missed the very beginning of the movie but right until the end, I had no idea it was anything about a ghost. I just though that maybe Beloved somehow didn't die when Sethe cut her in the shed.

But I think that had they marketed the movie as a horrormovie, it would completely miss the point of the movie. To me it was about the love and devotion of a woman for her children and any horror aspects of it were far too realistic to be compared to things in horror movies. The same goes for the supernatural aspects.

And to those who have bad things to say about Oprah in this movie, I thin that she was exremely great in this role and in the first half an hour or so I was trying to work out if it really was her. Overall I thought this was a great story of hardship and devotion, and I would hardly consider it as a horror movie.

im going to agree...look at a movie like Silence of The Lamb...Thats not really a horror movie either but it was sold as such...In reality, SOTL is an adult psychological drama about a horrible situation. Just. Like. Beloved.

Beloved was marketed horribly. I will never forget going to the theater and being so drawn into this film (and loving it) just to hear giggles from the middle class white woman and the smarmy comments about how "weird" the movie was.

i think if folks were better prepared for the film it would be considered the classic that it is...and this has nothing to do with this film being adapted from the book so folks really need to drop that arguement.

this film was horribly marketed to Oprah's fun loving white middle class women as a book club uplifting film and what folks got was a shock to the system of how horrible the affects of slavery were to those inslaved.

great film...horibly marketed.

Belanshar,

That would definitely be degrading Toni Morrison's 1988 Pulitzer Prize winning novel, which has so much more to it than blood, gore, and sex.

Furthermore, although there are definitely some shocking and disturbing images in the movie, it would never be classified as horor in a video rental store. Drama, maybe. History perhaps. But definitely not horror or porn.