If you had to put Alien into ONE genre, what would you choose: Horror or Sci-Fi?

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Alien: Sci-fi or horror?

  • It's clearly sci-fi! Spaceships and deep-space travel and extraterrestrials and shit!

  • It's obviously horror! People trapped and hunted by a terrifying, murderous creature!

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Secret Agent said:
85 is played by Francis Aaron, who is probably most famous in the States for being That One Roady from the WAYNE'S WORLD sequel and not-Clive-Owen. He was also Mean Gay in THE CRYING GAME and Fodder in THE PHANTOM MENACE. I believe ALIEN3 is also the first major motion picture that Pete Postlethwaite was in, he's the guy who explains the name, and is described by Steven Spielberg as the best actor he's ever worked with (but this was before Mark Rylance became front and center of EVERY Spielberg film; even money Steven will want him to play a female Indiana Jones in the reboot).
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He was the bad guy in the Highlander film that had the movie and TV series Highlanders together right?
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
That's why I know I'm right. :cool::D
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Strange King said:
every video store in the history of videos stores had this in scifi. Its not debatable. It has horror elements sure but some dramas like forrest gump are funny but its in the drama section
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I owned a video store for 5 years.

It was in horror. Where it belongs. People bring up Alien when they want t talk about one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Not when they want to talk about one of the greatest sci fi movies of all time.
 
Norman Khabib said:
I don't think it's an obsession, but we are enjoying the discussion so what is the problem? it's just a forum

I agree though, I hate discussions about what genre songs or albums should go into <45>
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It just comes up a lot, that's all. And then people go apeshit about Aliens not being Sci-Fi or something.

Ps That's black metal not dark metal
 
shadow_priest_x said:
Weird.

I don't see why Blockbuster would think that science fiction is any less deserving of its own category than horror, comedy or action.
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Nobody gave a fuck about Sci-fi until like 5 years ago. I remember loving sci-fi movies and being so sad that there was almost none. Today almost every other movie has sci-fi elements.

For the discussion I would put Alien as Horror. Just like Terminator would be a Horror movie too.
Both are like 66% horror 33% sci-fi. Aliens I would put as 66% sci-fi 33% horror.
 
If I have to choose between the two, I'd lean towards sci-fi.
 
j123 said:
Not to mention that the so called scientists in these films are dumb as shit

Oh I'm in a new planet where I dunno what the atmosphere or fluids are. Let me touch it and put it right up on my face and see what happens. Decontamination room? Naw, let me touch mang!!
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Truck drivers, not scientists.

And there was a decontamination / quarantine protocol that was deliberately ignored by a character that was aware of what was happening and specifically wanted to cause an outbreak.
 
Bob Gray said:
I owned a video store for 5 years.

It was in horror. Where it belongs. People bring up Alien when they want t talk about one of the greatest horror movies of all time. Not when they want to talk about one of the greatest sci fi movies of all time.
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Bullshit. Just because you put it there doesnt mean anything. I worked at hollywood video during highschool. It was in scifi. Never have I seen in any section other than scifi.

This is not a hard debate. Its a scifi movie.

Is star wars now just an action film?

Is the shining just a drama?
 
Cubo de Sangre said:
I voted horror. It comes down to what I think the film was trying to accomplish. Was it to give us a vision of the future or think about how advancing technology will influence human affairs? Or was it to scare the bejeezus out of us?
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I think more of the former than many give it credit for though, I mean yeah a lot of stuff around the Alien is ment mostly to scare us but theres definitely I think a strong element looking at the corporate culture.

A lot of the reason the film takes so long to get going I'd say is that its really highlighting the careerist attitude of the crew to each other and even when things start happening this remains a sizeble part of the story with Ash's character.

Really I think its a much more intelligent film than anything that's come afterwards in the franchise, Aliens has a similar plot but is much less subtle with it.
 
headkicktoleg said:
Nobody gave a fuck about Sci-fi until like 5 years ago. I remember loving sci-fi movies and being so sad that there was almost none. Today almost every other movie has sci-fi elements.

For the discussion I would put Alien as Horror. Just like Terminator would be a Horror movie too.
Both are like 66% horror 33% sci-fi. Aliens I would put as 66% sci-fi 33% horror.
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I'm going to presume you meant there was a gap where interest in sci fi fell off, because most of the best sci fis came before 5 years ago. I still don't agree though. Star Trek has continually had a series on the go since the 60s hasn't it?

I'm interested to see all the best sci fi movies and/or series listed chronologically to prove or disprove your theory
 
Can go either way.

But I voted horror, bc that's what it really is.
 
headkicktoleg said:
Nobody gave a fuck about Sci-fi until like 5 years ago. I remember loving sci-fi movies and being so sad that there was almost none. Today almost every other movie has sci-fi elements.

For the discussion I would put Alien as Horror. Just like Terminator would be a Horror movie too.
Both are like 66% horror 33% sci-fi. Aliens I would put as 66% sci-fi 33% horror.
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Terminator will never be put in the horror section. It was in action or scifi
 
Norman Khabib said:
I'm going to presume you meant there was a gap where interest in sci fi fell off, because most of the best sci fis came before 5 years ago. I still don't agree though. Star Trek has continually had a series on the go since the 60s hasn't it?

I'm interested though to see all the best sci fi movies and/or series listed chronologically to see if this is the case.
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Maybe 5 years wasn't correct, but definitely Sci-fi movies weren't really mainstream until about 10 years ago.
 
moreorless87 said:
I think more of the former than many give it credit for though, I mean yeah a lot of stuff around the Alien is ment mostly to scare us but theres definitely I think a strong element looking at the corporate culture.

A lot of the reason the film takes so long to get going I'd say is that its really highlighting the careerist attitude of the crew to each other and even when things start happening this remains a sizeble part of the story with Ash's character.

Really I think its a much more intelligent film than anything that's come afterwards in the franchise, Aliens has a similar plot but is much less subtle with it.
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Is there something futuristic about corporate greed and ladder-climbing? :D

Clearly the story requires science fiction. I don't think either category is wrong. But if I'm picking one it's based on the point of the film being to scare you with a monster. I don't think the point was to discourage or warn against scientific advancement or space exploration.
 
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