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    Is Hell Boy a horror movie?

    Some my friends disagree that Hell Boy is not horror and it's based on a action comic book, but to me I think Hell boy is horror.

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    It is an action comic with horror undertones. In other words one of the 'dark comic' genre.

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    Alright I was just making sure if I was right.

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    It can go either way. I consider it "horror" simply because of the fact it has demons and other supernatural elements that are usually in the genre.

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    It really gets on my nerves when people narrow down a movie to a very specific topic. "Dark Comic" WTF, I have never heard that used before. My horror generalization is very large. IE Signs, Seven, Dont Look Now. So I say yes Hell Boy is a horror movie.

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    Recently I've gotten slack for not covering the new AvP film, as I don't consider it horror, but in the past I remember having heated debates with people who considered Signs horror, which I personally felt was merely a scifi/drama/thriller.

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    Aliens always equal sci-fi in my opinion.

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    to me stuff like alien and predator is horror. You wanna call it sci-fi horror thats fine I guess but its a monster movie. Just because the monster comes from space doesnt mean its only a sci-fi movie. Stuff like Serenity, Star Trek, Star Wars, Space Odysssy. Or futuristic stuff like I Robot and Virtuosity. Thats Sci-fi stuff. To me stuff like AVP is a creature feature, and thats horror.

    And when it comes to Hellboy? Mike Mignolia has taken a genre he loves and thrown in action and comedy. But its horror based. And some of the comic books are drawin very very creepy. Just because Hellboy himself has a since of humor doesnt mean it isnt horror. Its pretty much all the good genres. Horror/sci-fi/fantasy/action/comedy. You can prety much call Hellboy whatever u want.

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    Signs was not a horror movie.
    It's a sci-fi/religous flick.

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    As long as there is jumps and a creepy alien, I am going to say its a horror movie.

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    No. Hellboy is an action movie. It may have occult themes but that doesn't qualify as horror as it's not intended to be scary as it's to be just another threat to the humans/world that the hero has to take care of.

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    The horror genre isn't about scares anymore, which has been made apparent by recent films like Saw.

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    While that is true to an extent it doesn't change the fact that the creatures/demons in Hellboy are nothing more than just a different take on the "bad guys" of action films. No different than the nameless guerrilla soldiers that work for a General and are there to just get killed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by steelba View Post
    Signs was not a horror movie.
    It's a sci-fi/religous flick.
    I would say Signs was a horror movie, mainly because of the subject matter and that it's got some really well delivered jolts. Also, I think that scene on the camcorder of the Brazillian kid's birthday party is one of the best jolt scenes of many preceding and following PG-13 horror flicks.

    And I agree with Fright on the Saw movies kind of bringing down the meaning of horror movies. I guess if a thriller or suspense movie gets too intense or disturbing they just label it as horror, like with Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal was a horror movie though, and I think it was intended to be one.

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    Now-a-days it's hard to classify what's horror and what isn't, what-with all the combining of various other genres and such. In the end it all just boils down to a matter of opinion.

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    with a title like Hellboy, you would think its a horror movie

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    Quote Originally Posted by ASoron0424 View Post
    I would say Signs was a horror movie, mainly because of the subject matter and that it's got some really well delivered jolts. Also, I think that scene on the camcorder of the Brazillian kid's birthday party is one of the best jolt scenes of many preceding and following PG-13 horror flicks.

    And I agree with Fright on the Saw movies kind of bringing down the meaning of horror movies. I guess if a thriller or suspense movie gets too intense or disturbing they just label it as horror, like with Silence of the Lambs. Hannibal was a horror movie though, and I think it was intended to be one.
    You're ragging on Saw for "bringing down the meaning of horror movies" but you're willing to say Signs was a horror movie?

    Wow, I mean seriously, wow.

    Signs is not even close to being a horror movie, because it has "jump scares" doesn't mean that its horror. Especially since jump scares are nothing more than over used tool to make up for the lack of talent to build an atmosphere by a director.

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    Frights master is right it all boils down to opinion. Personally I treat it like a horror film because of the supernatural tone of the movie. I treat Signs as a horror movie because it reminds me of Night of the Living Dead and I think aliens killing humans is scary enough to be considered a horror movie.

    Honestly alot of movies I consider horror can be called other things like scifi/horror or "action adventure with scifi and fantasy elements" but for the sake of simplicitly Im calling them horror movies.

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    What do you guys consider a Giallo? It is a murder mystery, with some movies having supernatural aspects, depending on the film. I feel it is another sub genre of horror, since there can be excessive gore, violence and very suspenseful atmospheres.

    But just like it was said before "matter of opinion"

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    I don't consider it a horror movie.

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