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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9493575">Carrie is definitely a horror movie. Everything about how it is filmed and presented, even if you take out that final scene, makes it a horror movie.The scenes with the mother alone feel more at home in a horror movie than science fiction. Also there is a lot of cross-over with sci-fi and horror (probably why lots of video store sections used to group them under sci-fi/horror). Movies and books can be both. We don't have to limit each to one category. Mary Shelly's Frankenstein is both science fiction and horror. Lots of 'weird tales' are both. The 80s had tons of horror comedies which had foot firmly in each genre (with some movies leaning more in one direction or the other). They aren't mutually exclusive. In fact having other elements like comedy can make horror more disturbing sometimes (personally I think one of the reasons why Evil Dead II is so scary is the comedy makes it feel more unsettling, like you are in the hands of a director who is a deranged psychopath)This is a good point. Horror can also be very subtle and doesn't just mean a jump scare. Gothic horror is often this way, where it is a slow build to some disturbing realization. A lot of classic horror movies are more subtle in their approach (at least by the standards of the 70s onward).</blockquote>