Ah, like members of the republican party, or a religious cult, those that follow imdb's information and user comments....
hehe... personally, I try to avoid relying on imdb for genre definition and pretty much everything since i've learnt from seeing how wrong it gets over the years; it does more damage than good a lot of the time especially on rare and 'foreign' movies.
I've found this site to be more accurate its general information and informative on most thigns (it gets release dates right for example, where imdbs are clearly wrong on a lot of horror films).
http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:180343
As is more usual with that site, it seems to be a heck of a lot more specific and accurate in the writeup
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* Science Fiction
* Monster Film
* Sci-Fi Horror
* Natural Horror |
I'd have picked pretty much the same subgenres, it usually gets them a lot closer for me.
Godzilla is a run of the mill
monster movie, one of the template ones actually, along with King Kong. Its one of the movies that defined 50-70s monster movies. As vnorske commented, if this isn't horror it completely destroys the descriptor altogether since it erases a lot of the stuff that influenced 80s horror
I put it in the bmovie/monster movie/scifi category myself. Its the same category as giant spider/lobster/etc invades xyz, and a lot of troma type movies. Ed Wood jr. kind of movies
It was a staple subgenre for decades of independant horror
ps. all that said, imdb lists it as a monster movie too under its extended keywords:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047034/keywords
It also lists another horror subgenre, the Creature Feature
But what i said about it being a piss poor reference source still stands, the info is dubious at best
