Yes, I agree, horror to me is like ghosts / the paranormal, supernatural and giant monsters resulting from nuclear radiation or the living dead, etc. I consider the Exorcist and the Sixth Sense to be horror movies - but the latter completely blindsided me, its famous ending. And I'd forgotten it was one of the few straight up horror pics besides the Exorcist - to get nominated for Best Picture. I look at Jaws as an adventure classic about competing interests in Martha's Vineyard - with a spectacular closing shot before the credits. Still stuns me to this day, the way it's cut and assembled.
But a few months ago I saw one of the bloody remakes of "Piranha" and I put it in the category of comedy horror because even though piranhas exist - as depicted in this, it was gross, over-the-top gory, like one of those Saw movies so graphic that the violence feels comic / cartoonish. What got my attention though was it had Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames, Christopher Lloyd and even Richard Dreyfuss in it, not A-list but not D-list either. Another movie that probably would be horror - that I've never seen - (and have no interest no matter how "good" it might be) - is Arachnophobia. Nope. -d. ________________________________ From: MoPo List <[email protected]> on behalf of Christopher Quarles <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2023 7:36 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Artist Roger Kastel Has Passed Away I think for me, the difference is the horror movies cited portray monsters that don’t really exist in real life. Sharks are real. Chris Quarles On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:39 PM Alan Adler <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Jaws is definitely a horror film - even a sci-fi/horror film - A big monstrous inhuman creature from the unknown comes for us. From The Creature to Them - it’s the same paradigm. Jaws took something that was always kind of scary but relatively known - they blew it up and made it very scary and very unknown. Made us afraid of our shadow. And that’s what monster makers do. Alan On Nov 15, 2023, at 6:09 PM, Christopher Quarles <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I don’t know if I’ve mentioned this before, but my younger friends consider Jaws a horror movie. This came to my attention when a huge horror fan who is my friend expressed dismay that Richard Dreyfuss was not going to be at the horror comic con. When I asked what horror movie, Richard Dreyfuss was in, he looked at me like I was crazy and said Jaws of course. What is your opinion? Chris Quarles On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 6:09 PM Phillip Ayling <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: https://deadline.com/2023/11/roger-kastel-dead-jaws-movie-poster-illustrator-1235613173/ Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
