i said one of its very subgenres, along with gay hobbits, is most certainly horror like. I'm interested, if a movie is say, pure fantasy so that means it can't be scifi? or it can't be a comedy? or a horror? Sorry, i just can't follow that logic that its fantasy and that means nothing else is true. What about jabberwocky? is that a comedy or a fantasy? Or neither? imo its far too close for a general classification. Its clerly got its main genre and if you only have the luxury of a deeply naive one or the other you kind of miss the film.
Its like the Alien is a scifi all over again
Sure its a scifi and not a horror, if your a tool
As a genre site we luckily have the freedom to allow everything in and associated with that genre else its not going to work. Its purposely designed to avoid having a section for fantasy and a section for horror and then having to make a naive judgement blanket categorisation. If you had to, sure it would go in a fantasy section... but then we don't have one so we don't need
All we have is a section that says its not a horror in any way, shape or form, but its related or shares the same audience.
I'd say Pan's Labrynth is a fantasy, but its certainly got enough horror themes to warrant attention and postage here
Similarly, Brazil is clearly a fantasy movie but its certainly a scifi movie and i wouldn't ban it from a scifi only site (not that scifi.dead-donkey is scifi only, its scifi and fantasy
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I didn't say it was a horror in any signficant way if you care to pick at what i said though:
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na, its got enough, ghosts, orcs and god only knows what else to be in the all encompassing horror genre. |
Its certainly got other aims and motives, but when you've got deformed monsters, people eating other people (or orcs or whatever they are), ring wraiths, ghosts, goblins, and everything else associated with the horror genre, its far more worthy of existance here than say hellboy which is more of an action flick with a demon than anything that tries to scare you. I believe no matter how light it was, there was an attempt to nod to horror... i mean it is a peter jackson flick. He snuck zombies into King Kong for pete's sake
Remember World of Warcraft is in the gaming section and afaik, it has less horror like qualities going for it than this movie for certain.
+ Brad Dourif in a movie scores spud-o-points
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Just to pick up on what rogue said, doesn't matter how big a movie is though, as long as its horror or can be passed or argued as such.
The only time the no blockbuster (note: blockbuster employees are welcome) rule comes into play is non-horror and that's to try and level out the non-horror to related genres and interests. The rule isn't so much as to protect the site from any heat, its to protect the section from becoming shite and just like the content you can find anywhere. Keep the genre site unique, i know a lot of people would love a more extended site so they don't have to visit but i think keeping it within the confines of horror and associated genres is worthwhile to protect the site from over growing its worth
