say it till your blue in the face, unfortunately i don't think your going to have prove exactly why it doesn't have a single element that make it a scifi movie, and as i explain later, the scifi genre is very weak as a concept and easy to classify because of its inferiority/unsuitability of being to other less rigid emotion and style genres.
It boils down to the numerous references, theories and stories supporting dimensions, visions and UFOs/aliens, and it isn't in a form that makes reference, it is part of the movie that it is understood that they are supernatural alien/dimensional weirdo moth dudes. Even if it doesn't make it any less of a crappy mystery movie, its hit the minimum requirements for scifi classification.
This isn't exactly like people who insist that alien is primarily a scifi film not a horror movie, since you seem to be claiming that this is not a scifi at all yet it is easily classified as a scifi with very little effort and seems to be unanimously done in this way. Even a decent enough plot synopsis covers exactly why it can be subclassified as scifi, and it is pretty easy to do so dispite protests. Just do mothman prophecy and scifi emperical study and you'll see the sheer weight of opinion is against you, ie. hence why imdb says it is, hence why the book is so often stated to be a scifi novel, and countless other critics and reviewers and movie cataloguing sites. Hence why its in the scifi section at my local video store (presumably because its too paranormal (ie. scifi) to be passed off as a straight thriller and people just can't watch paranormal stuff... makes sense they trump the scifi to an issue) ... the film even premiered at the SCIFI-London convention in this country *snip*... of course, there's a reason it comes to this, and its the, arguably light, but still present scifi content. The important thing to remember about scifi classification is that its a checklist of content, no emotion, or style like with other genres.
Remember scifi is perhaps the weakest of all major genre description, or rather the easiest to classify as given that its based on entirely different concepts to pretty much every other major genre; its a freak. Horror, drama, action\adventure all have emotional and plot or synopsis indicators, where as scifi merely has to have a certain item or setting from a checklist. In reality its a on off thing, and scifi movies aren't scifi movies for the sake of scifi, its a thriller or horror, or whatever, but it meets the quantifying object/item/setting parameter.
And mothman, dispite the protests meets several checklist parameters that make it a scifi. I think the director made some comments about it being a mystery, not a scifi, but the problem is that he really is ignoring the weaker scifi quantifying boundries. Its a thriller, but it is also content elements of scifi, and horror, and boredom... 
I think its going to have to be one of those deal with it amigo moments.... now stop trolling this thread and troll the mothman monstrosity thread mr
I have my genre arguments all the time, and they have no relevance, it just pisses everyone off. Like the continual Alien is a horror movie primarily vs. the people that just don't get what alien is about and clasify it as primarly a scifi movie. However, that's not saying it isn't one or the other, just of the two, what best describes alien, and its obvious that its a horror movie 
erm... but maybe someone spliced mothmen into an episode of star trek, but i'm pretty sure richard gere never starred in any trek [/list]
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