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Would you consider Annihilation (2018) a horror movie? (programming.dev)

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I wasn't scared by the movie, but it has a similar dread throughout the movie. There are also some jump scares, and the ending has that 'evil didn't really get defeated' quality.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's certainly not jump scare horror; it's more existential.

I enjoy horror movies, but they've long since stopped "scaring" me. To me, they're mostly just fun -- seeing the effects, the ways they'll put their own twists on genre tropes, etc.

Annihilation, for me, invoked a true sense of dread and, well, horror. It's several years old but still lingers with me.

(After writing this I realized you said 2013, not 2018... hope that's just a typo and we're talking about the same movie)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah I meant 2018. Yeah my favorite horror is the ones that give you that dread and what if scenarios.