Just personal musings.
Just had a discussion with my girlfriend whose sat next to me as I write. Is Last House counted as a horror sometimes because Wes Craven made it? Would it be filed elsewhere if it were made by Michael Winner?
It could be location that makes it a horror movie. Once the sadists are in your house, it edges closer to primal fears for me. Then I think it's down to what the home invaders do to the victims. Panic Room isn't a horror movie because you never get the sense that any of the perps want to tear out fingernails with a pair of pliers. In Mother's Day the atmosphere is one of not knowing how far the criminals will take it. That's the horrible part I reckon.
But again, it's all in the eye of the beholder.
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