Movie Draft

[Captain Hi-Top 791]

The Manchurian Candidate is considered a thriller. Tell me the horror elements of that film and then you won't need me to explain the difference YOU SWINE.

 

Cujo... Thriller, or Horror?

[Jareth Cutestory 678]

Cujo... Thriller, or Horror?

 

I've actually never watched that, but reading the plot I'd say horror.

[Jareth Cutestory 678]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0k21yeVMbM

 

Yeah. That's horror.

 

After a brutal struggle between the desperate mother and the relentless animal, Donna takes advantage of a momentary distraction and beats Cujo with a baseball bat and then stabs him with the handle when the bat breaks. As Donna attempts to revive her son, who has passed out due to the extreme heat, Cujo tears through the kitchen window and launches himself at the two. Donna kills Cujo with the dead Sheriff's revolver, and manages to barely resuscitate Tad.

 

Yup. Horror.

[Fultz4thewin 2,464]

The Manchurian Candidate is considered a thriller. Tell me the horror elements of that film and then you won't need me to explain the difference YOU SWINE.

 

Silence of the Lambs is considered a Psychological Thriller. Halloween is considered a horror film. Yet both movies are somewhat interchangeable when looking at the conventions.

 

Thriller's "are types of films known to promote intense excitement, suspense, a high level of anticipation, ultra-heightened expectation, uncertainty, anxiety, and nerve-wracking tension. Thriller and suspense films are virtually synonymous and interchangeable categorizations, with similar characteristics and features." http://www.filmsite.org/thrillerfilms.html

 

"Horror Films are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality." http://www.filmsite.org/horrorfilms.html

 

Thriller is more of a style than a genre. The Manchurian Candidate fills a lot of the conventions of a horror film (nightmares, vulnerabilities, etc) but the plot of the movie fits more into a drama. Silence of the lambs is more grotesque and has a "monster" so it more easily fits into the horror genre.

 

Edit: in fact, The Manchurian Candidate has very similar conventions as Psycho.

[Captain Hi-Top 791]

I've actually never watched that, but reading the plot I'd say horror.

 

It's both. Stop trying to put everything into a pretty little box.

 

Thrillers:

If the genre is to be defined strictly, a genuine thriller is a film that rentlessly pursues a single-minded goal - to provide thrills and keep the audience cliff-hanging at the 'edge of their seats' as the plot builds towards a climax. The tension usually arises when the main character(s) is placed in a menacing situation or mystery, or an escape or dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible. Life itself is threatened, usually because the principal character is unsuspecting or unknowingly involved in a dangerous or potentially deadly situation. Plots of thrillers involve characters which come into conflict with each other or with outside forces - the menace is sometimes abstract or shadowy.

[Secretly Space Jesus 670]

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Pathetic man-animals!

 

Do you all honestly believe that your films cannot be considered to meet the criteria for multiple genres?

 

Ha-ha indeed.

 

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[Jareth Cutestory 678]

It's both. Stop trying to put everything into a pretty little box.

 

 

Fine, fair enough. But the two genres are still not the same.

 

It'd be like trying to label music. Nothing is just "rock". Or "pop". Most music combines elements of different genres. If you started a techno/metal band, you would call it that. That doesn't mean techno and metal are the same type of music.

 

Same as a thriller/horror movie. Horror movies usually go for cheap scares, monsters, dark mythical themes, etc. Thrillers could simply be Agent A is looking to solve who is out to murder Political Figure B. Or Wife A is cheating on Husband A with the pool boy, thus leading to manipulation and sexy time, otherwise known as an Erotic Thriller.

[Captain Hi-Top 791]

Apparently Lord Xenu agrees with me. Not sure how he feels about agreeing with a Manimal though.

[Captain Hi-Top 791]

Fine, fair enough. But the two genres are still not the same.

 

It'd be like trying to label music. Nothing is just "rock". Or "pop". Most music combines elements of different genres. If you started a techno/metal band, you would call it that. That doesn't mean techno and metal are the same type of music.

 

Same as a thriller/horror movie. Horror movies usually go for cheap scares, monsters, dark mythical themes, etc. Thrillers could simply be Agent A is looking to solve who is out to murder Political Figure B. Or Wife A is cheating on Husband A with the pool boy, thus leading to manipulation and sexy time, otherwise known as an Erotic Thriller.

 

They are closely related. Some thrillers are also horror films, and some horror films are also thrillers. Not all thrillers are also horror films.

 

Now **** before we turn this into an SAT question.

[Jareth Cutestory 678]

They are closely related. Some thrillers are also horror films, and some horror films are also thrillers. Not all thrillers are also horror films.

 

Now **** before we turn this into an SAT question.

 

 

I'M GONNA WIPE YOUR BUTT WITH THIS DRAFT PUNK.

[Captain Hi-Top 791]

I'm not Bubba the Love Sponge. Thank you though.

[Jareth Cutestory 678]

I'm not Bubba the Love Sponge. Thank you though.

 

I know who he is but don't get the reference punk.