This should fall under the Drama category, not Horror!

I agree 95%. 5% of me is telling me that this is in fact a horror movie with lots of drama, but the other 95% tells me there's no real horror here.

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Yes, absolutely. Still a great film do.

To an extent, I think when it came out fifty years ago it would have been considered pretty Horrific.
I may not have found any of it intensely frightening, but I still found some of the parts quite creepy, such as the mother's breakdown at the end. So the way I see it, it's equally both lol. That's just my opinion.

For the era, when atmosphere was everything (as opposed to gore) this qualified as "horror."

The definition has changed.

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Maybe if you come to the conclusion the mask is cursed you could call the last 10 minutes horror. Mostly though its drama...

I expected this to be a horror. You have to wait quite a while to see the man with the mask and I thought that's when the horror elements would begin, but the man didn't seem all that frightening. Mostly it's a drama.

definitely a tragic drama.