[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Frank Richards

To give you an idea of the stuff I like, Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, Ridley Scott, and Robert Rodriguez are a few of my favorite directors, and while these guys borrow HEAVILY from the horror genre, I wouldn't consider any, except for the obvious exception of John Carpenter, to be "horror" directors.

Honestly Guillermo Del Toro's horror movies are alright but he only actually directed like 3 of them so he isn't really a horror director, but he shines directing in fantasy/action/sci-fi such as Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy(s), and Pacific Rim. John Carpenter is a horror/sci-fi/fantasy director with Halloween, The Thing, They Live, and Big Trouble in Little China showing his range of film. Ridley Scott has been all over the place, but Alien is definitely a horror film and then a sci-fi, while Prometheus is sci-fi/horror, Blade Runner is sci-fi/noir, Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven are historical-epics/dramas, and Legend is a fantasy film. So Ridley Scott isn't really in debate of being a horror director since he really only made the one. Robert Rodriguez is then a action/horror/over-the-top director with movies like Planet Terror and From Dusk Till Dawn going for horror themes with insanely over-the-top action moments for humor, while the Machete films are action themed with the same over-the-top action and violence.

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

Actually Alien is a horror movie. It is a haunted house movie per Ridley Scott's directly.

If you change the setting to be like on a train instead of a spaceship and make it a more typical monster instead of an alien you do pretty much have just another monster-slasher flick of the time. The space-setting definitely helped establish and make the film noteworthy as a horror, but it didn't define the movie experience. Nobody was walking out going "gee I wonder when we'll have ships like that or if flying in space you could be put into cryo-freeze and stay that young or receive an alien distress signal from another planet and have androids and yatta yatta yatta." People were leaving like "shit did you see that thing come out of his chest! or that part when it pulled the guy up into the rafters! oh I don't wanna admit it, but the crew-member I was most worried about was the cat!" So yes, Alien is a horror movie. I'm sure I'm not the only person who thinks the snazziest feature of NECA's upcoming Ripley figures isn't that they're the first toys ever to have Sigourney Weaver's likeness, but that they come with Jonesy!