"The Movie version of 'Until Dawn' will feature different characters and a different story from the source material."

THEN THAT'S NOT A MOVIE VERSION OF UNTIL DAWN THATS JUST A MOVIE

I genuinely want to read a story from the POV of one of the workers in charge of covering up all the stuff that happens between a horror movie and its sequels.

There's got to be some kind of weird PR firm scouring the internet, gaslighting people on a huge scale.

To what end, though?

The Gate - Kids opened a portal to hell. It wasn't subtle. There was a column of smoke stretching to the sky!

The Babysitter - How does the main character's father not remember hiring the titular babysitter? People died in his house!

Ghostbusters - Giant Marshmallow walking through the city!

One of my favorite (and most unbelievable) tropes in horror is how, at the start of a sequel, people are somehow skeptical of whatever supernatural entity was *clearly* established to exist in the first movie...

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It was absolutely formative in making me the way I am today. If you get a chance, watch it close to Halloween. It holds up.

Fun fact: The Trolls in Ernest were repurposed as the aliens in Killer Klowns from Outer Space.

"Is It Horror?"

All *Hot Takes* edition:

Old - No
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory - Yes
The Menu - No
The Cable Guy - Yes
Final Destination - Yes
Final Destination 2 through 5 - No
Jumanji - Yes
Tucker and Dale Vs Evil - No
Lost Boys - Yes

Is It Horror?

The "Oops, I got Stuck" edition

127 Hours - No
47 Meters Down - Yes
The Pool (2018) - No
Open Water - Yes
Open Water 2: Adrift - No
Gerald's Game - Yes
Frozen (2010) - No
Fall (2022) - No

These answers are based entirely on my gut reaction and don't necessarily make any sense.

Is It Horror?

Round One:

Donnie Darko- No.
Gremlins- Yes.
Gremlins 2- Also yes.
Wicker Man- Believe it or not, yes.
Renfield- No. It's a workplace comedy.
Jaws- Yes (subcategory of creature-feature)
Army of Darkness- No. It's a swashbuckling action adventure.
Coraline- No, but I could be swayed

I've decided to move all of my "Is it horror" threads to over here, just in case I delete my Threads account in the next few days.

Does it matter that there's a record of my completely arbitrary binary ranking of a bunch of silly movies? Not really. I mean, the country is on fire... but here we go.

Respectfully, I don't know who you are and I've never heard of you before. But I just joined Bluesky today and the algorithm put you on my main page. You just earned a follower based on this post because it's exactly what I've been thinking for weeks and couldn't quite put into words.

Okay, for my first post, I'd like to do another round of "Is it horror?"

The rules are simple. I name a movie, then tell you if I think it's horror.

Annihilation - Yes
Se7en - No
Ernest Scared Stupid - Yes
Alien - Yes
Predator - No
Alien Vs Predator - Also No
Freddy Vs Jason - Yes
The Mummy - No