actually Im big hater of horror movies and this one was always too dark for me as a kid but now I watched again and loved it,it was something beautiful in all those dark suroundings so now its romance of darkness movie for me:)
shareWell, it certainly has a horror element to it.
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It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing .
A buddy of mine once summed this movie up as being a fairy tale of sorts. I think that stuck as far as generalizing this movie.
It's like what this movie lacks in suspense or vulgarity (which horror movies typically adopt) The Crow threads a different sense of atmosphere, one that lends more of a fantasy to it.
he may come back to life after being killed and does come out of a grave but he ain't a zombie!
he uses weapons, guns and such to kill enemies. it's not like he rips them apart, tears their throats out with his hands!
I see this in the horror section all the time in stores, I don't get it.
at home it's in the Action section caus that's what it freaking is!!
No you're right he's not a zombie, but the fact that he is granted a supernatural ability to come back from the dead for a day, does mean that there's a paranormal element to this action movie.
it's "action/fantasy" and I think it's the fact that there's a paranormal, supernatural factor in the basic premise, is why some stores put this in the Horror shelves.
Horror movies do share the element of somebody or something killing people, and most horrors deal with an element that is supernatural. The Crow has both these factors, so I can see why it might figure to some people as a possible horror movie.
It's in a grey area, I think. It's not "straight" action even though it has action.
No you're right he's not a zombie
That's interesting about the revenant zombie -- I had never come across that department of zombie belief.
I guess he does fit into that category, although I think most people are aware only of the traditional movie zombie who has lost all personality and is either catatonic and does human bidding, or is crazed and flesh-eating. Since he's a specialized type such as your links illustrate, I don't think most people would immediately feel it's a zombie they're seeing -- more like an assumption he's just a very, very corporeal ghost of some kind.
But that's interesting. It also brings it closer to the horror justification.
A buddy of mine once summed this movie up as being a fairy tale of sorts.
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