maxpayne2409 wrote:probably not hehe but thats coz its called resident evil and to me that is horror, i guess this is like spuds insistence that alien is horror when clearly its scifi hehe,
Hehe, the number of times we've discussed this and you still get my point wrong. No its nothing of the sort, infact, it takes your point of view not mine. My inisistance that alien is primarily a horror film is by its content, tone, atmosphere, script and the fact it is a horror film in every sense of the word, and that the insistance that its classed as a scifi merely because its set in space seems incredibly "disrespectful"/wrong [use of word is merely at pointing out that it misses the intention, not that its anything terrible] given everything that alien stood for and was about.
The determination of scifi for
this, I would assume, comes from the fact it all revolves around an underground science facility that is creating bilogical agents that kill and reanimate the dead, creating genetic super soldiers. Which of course, does sound like a sci-fi (frankenstein on acid, another scifi, but quite clearly mainly a horror) and is in fact part of the genre, you can describe this as a sci-fi film...
if you override the primary genre of the movie and take it as a scifi
just because its set in a lab and involves a virus (sounds incredibly like the alien is a scifi because it has an alien in it and its set in space does it not). So infact, no its the complete opposite of my argument, it is infact more like your insistance that Alien isn't horror due to the scifi setting.
My arguement for alien is that its a horror because thats what it primarily is 'about'. I also say RE is a horror because that, to a lesser success, is what its 'about' (although I do question the success of its 'horror'). Both too can be described as sci-fi and clearly are, but imo, only as a subgenre.
As you obviously know, Resident Evil was, and is, designed to be a horror series. It quite clearly is meant to be a horror film (tbh, the games do a much better job at it than the movie), and its an enjoyable film, if not totally successfully. I'm eagery awaiting the sequel.
btw, that's the tryant in the box aint it? I was having a conversation with a geek, and he says "oh no, that's just the hunters in them cages"... however, although its a long time since I saw the movie, I'm almost certain the 'thing' in the box had a heart on its shoulder, which as every geek should know is trademark tyrant (is it the H strain in RE1, I forget?)
and thats what counts
crap 
so beware 
