I put this and the second one in my gothic horror collection.
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a supernatural, undead, killer terrorizes a city
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a supernatural, undead, killer terrorizes a city
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Personally, I will always consider this a horror movie. One of my all time favorites. Here's why. The year was circa 1995-6. I was about 11. My parents had gone to bed and I was about to watch my first rated R movie. All by myself. Let me tell you, it was amazing. I cried, I cringed, a lot, and I loved. It scared the poo poo right out of me. Not literary, of course. Between the violence, the supernatural, and the creepy tone I will always consider this a horror movie. It still scares me because there are people like those villains in real life.
shareI remember back when I was a kid, reading articles in magazines about the first sequel City of Angels, and the articles using the word "horror" to describe the first film and its sequel, and the photos they picked to use for the articles were photos that were purposely at odd angles and showed the characters in shadows.
I have a feeling the dark and stylish aesthetics of the films (particularly the original with it's cold and almost monochromatic color-scheme) give people a sense of dread that makes them think of horror.
That article actually put me off of seeing the film for a long time, because I used to be petrified of horror films... it wasn't until I caught half the film years later on tv without knowing what it was that I realized the articles and whatnot were pretty deceptive and that it's not really "horror" in the sense of what most people consider horror.
And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?
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Oh please. What a bizarre non sequitur of a post.
"The internet" is full of ordinary people who go outside, ffs. Not everyone is the mythological "virgin in mother's basement."
I fail to see what any of this has to do with a film having a grey area in placing of genre categories.
Nobody's saying it's a horror because it scared the sh!t out of them. Some simply say one of its genre's could loosely be horror because of the supernatural elemental plus dark foreboding atmosphere and killer on the loose who isn't even human.
There's something to that, although it's not cut and dried. Jeez.
I think this movie is more like a tragic romance with some supernatural elements mixed in. Just my two cents.
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Me too, personally I don't think of it as a horror, but I'm defending the point of view where it's UNDERSTANDABLE that SOME people think that's ONE of the applicable genres.
I can see it, doesn't mean I call it that too.
It's not a horror flick, I'd describe it as a dark/gothic action/revenge thriller
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