Quote Originally Posted by Self.Destructive.Pattern View Post
What? Not every movie that has people running from a CG monster is horror. Super 8 is a perfect example of this... Even Hereditary isn't horror in some people's eyes. It absolutely is matter of opinion lol.
That's why I also said it's designed to elicit fear in the audience, which is the primary distinction of a horror movie.

https://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/scr...a-horror-film/

The reason I say it's not subjective is because it's about what the filmmakers intended. Beck & Woods wrote a script intended to be a horror movie, John Krasinski adapted and filmed it as a horror movie, and the studio marketed it as a horror movie... so it's a horror movie.

Like, you can argue about whether Fight Club is a comedy—it's a funny movie but doesn't use jokes as its primary driver—but you can't argue whether or not Knocked Up is a comedy. It may not have made you laugh, but it is, by design, a comedy.