This is far from a horror movie... It's actually a quite decent fantasy drama. People's expectations can be let down, going into this movie, expecting horror elements. There's actually only very few horror elements in the film.
shareI'd say this movie has a very conventional horror movie structure... but it's more a drama than a horror. Sadly none of them really work lol
sharePretty much exactly what I was going to say, except that I thought it worked quite well in places. ANd that's the problem, it was inconsistent, very uneven.
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this IS horror, even if it doesn't scare you. is a mix of drama/horror/fantasy.
there´s not an amount of movies u seen that will change that =)
It´s a refreshing Horror story.
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A 4 year old kid, who doesn't have a father and watches cancer eat their mother, is pretty damn horrific.
shareThat's called drama. I would never recommend this movie, to anyone, in search of getting scared. As a drama / fantasy with a little horror elements, yeah. But this is far from a scary movie, looking subjectively on the film
Well, this raises the question, does horror have to be scary?
It has to be horrific, sure - but does it have to scare us. There is a difference.
If we see someone barely alive trying to dig out of a mass war grave, in broad daylight and no real tension but bloated corpses, flies and guts everywhere - that's pretty horrific, right? But yes, it can also be called dramatic.
One definition of horror holds that it must have something supernatural - that horror is just the scary side of fantasy but this definition means that Jaws, Psycho, Friday the 13th and other films quite often regarded as horror are not horror.
first google definition of the word 'horror':
an intense feeling of fear, shock, or disgust.
so it can be fear, shock or disgust, so long as it's intense.
first google definition for a 'horror story':
a story in which the focus is on creating a feeling of fear. Such tales are of ancient origin and form a substantial part of the body of folk literature. They can feature supernatural elements such as ghosts, witches, or vampires, or they can address more realistic psychological fears.
So here, as you define, fear is needed. But this definition means something like Human Centipede is not horror - it's just disgusting, it's not scary. Like cannibal films or even watching a gruesome real life beheading video (for the most extreme type) these things are disgusting, unnerving, sickening and so on - but not actually scary.
So what is horror?
umme4uke You nailed it my friend!
shareit is a horror movie, then towards the end, turns into a drama
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
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