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Live Poll: Is 'Twilight' Horror?

The legitimacy of Twilight as a horror film as been kicked around the horror community since it's theatrical debut in 2008 with most opinions falling in the resounding negative. Sans vampires and werewolves, Twilight would be nothing more than a romanticized teen drama in the tradition of Beverly Hills 90210 or Gossip Girl. Right?...

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If that were the case, its release would have passed without incident, lost in the shuffle of dozens of other movies just like it (Clueless, 10 Things I Hate About You). But since it does contain supernatural creatures, people are quick to place it in the horror genre with films like the Werewolf of London (1935 ) and Interview with a Vampire (1994), even though it may lack some of the essential elements of a horror film The definition of horror is “the strong feeling of fear caused by something frightful or shocking” and as a genre, horror is built on fear. From Rosemary’s Baby to James Whale’s Frankenstein, these films take us to the edge of our consciousness by exploring subconscious fears of birth, death and the destruction of the individual.

If fear is what is needed to make a horror film, then the major flaw with Twilight is that it overly romanticizes the figures of the vampire and werewolf to the point that they can’t be used as effective objects of cinematic fear. At the very least they might represent teen angst, but films like Teen Wolf (1985) and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957) have already accomplished that task far more effectively in the past.

The classification of Twilight as a horror film is tenuous because it lacks the one thing that would make it a true horror piece, fear. As a result, Twilight is a horror film and it’s not. At best, Twilight and the "New Moon Saga" can be considered a teen drama/horror hybrid in that like science-fiction horror and the horror musical, it tries to appeal to two very different audiences (teen movie fans and hardcore horror fans) to make a buck.

The result has been riotous success with one and complete rejection by the other, making Twilight into the true bastard child of the horror genre and loathed by males all over the horror world.


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So the question of the day is. In your opinion does Twilight fall into the horror category or does it get brushed off as a tween fantasy film that just conveniently has Vampires in it?






25 comments

TorturedSoul
*****
11/08/09 @ 01:39
My wife would argue yes, but I personally say no. It's definitly going to be a gender devide though.
Dave
11/08/09 @ 01:40
NO, NO, NO! :)
ShapeShifter
*****
11/08/09 @ 01:44
I gotta be honest I have never seen the films or read the books so I can't say for sure but I gotta think it's more of a romance type deal that happens to include horror elements. There is no ounce of my manhood that would let me say its honest to goodness horror....

so my vote is no.
Darkartist81
*****
11/08/09 @ 02:20
No. I'm exposed to this film a lot, and my Wife reads the books and has watched the Blu Ray at least 10 times already... so I have seen it plenty of times and know the story.

It's not horror at all. Horror needs a few elements, fear primarily, More than 2 or 3 deaths that are drawn out and shown onscreen, and a villain.. be it ghost, slasher, whatever.

Twilight really doesn't have any of these. Fear is nonexistent. Deaths are offscreen and quick, also they are few. There really is no villain, save for a few characters that are dispatched pretty quickly offscreen and mainly exist to deepen or shift the love story here or there.

It's a love story, has some metaphorical stuff for coming of age and moving into adulthood, etc. But it's not horror at all. Edward might talk about how he is a "monster", but he's a freakin cupcake compared to Dracula, Severin, Radu, Nosferatu, or even Lestat and Louis.

Even taking away the sunlight effect and adding the glittery thing is a perfect example of this. Unlike Take the Right One In, which made vampires monstrous and still had a solid love story, Twilight delves deeply into the love and leaves out the fearful and darker aspects. Let the Right One In is horror, even though it's more tame and focuses on a building love.

Vampires and shapeshifting "werewolves" aside, Twilight isn't horror. It's a tween romance wrapped in black glittery paper with cartoony vamps drawn on it. The wrapping doesn't make it horror, that would be only achieved through the substance. Twilight lacks this substance, and therefore is not horror.
11/08/09 @ 02:22
Let me first say...I'm female. And, in my mid-twenties. And, I vote HELL no. If there were an official category for 'annoying,' it would be in it. It's teenage drama at it's best/worst. Drama.
BrandyWine
11/08/09 @ 05:48
simple answer, ahh no! lol!
darkvoorhees
*****
11/08/09 @ 05:49
Gawd i love this site. We even have chicks agreeing on twilight blogs. i say no also! and win one for horror!
Mr. Gein
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11/08/09 @ 07:26
should this question even be asked? no way is it horror. it's a pop phenomenon, and like all other pop phenomenoms these days, it'll burn itself out by the time it's audience(sad teenage girls and their emo boyfriends) either dies off or grows the hell up a little bit.
11/08/09 @ 09:57
No.
Dana Oswald
11/08/09 @ 09:57
NO
Heather S.
11/08/09 @ 09:58
No boo's its not! Its teenie drama. :-)
GenericBastard
11/08/09 @ 09:59
If i was forced to watch it "A Clockwork Orange" style,eyelids forced open and strapped to a chair then in a sense that situation would be an absolute horror.Bleh!
Lost In The Shadows · http://www.myspace.com/superjustin
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11/08/09 @ 09:59
Twilight is gay. like Retarded gay!
*****
11/08/09 @ 10:00
Twilight is NOT horror. Nowhere close. In fact, it is THE reason why vampires cannot be fully considered horror anymore. Pop culture has taken yet another gem from the horror fans, bent it over, and raped it.
CustomCritters
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11/08/09 @ 10:03
Agreed! Twilight is not horror. Maybe some new weird tennie bopper segment of horror that includes a nightmare on elm street in pg-13!
scott
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11/08/09 @ 10:27
Vampires explode in the sun. They don't glitter like fags. Enough said. Epic fail to the 10th degree.
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11/08/09 @ 10:37
Horror? No! Scary in the fact that there will be lots of sequels to this garbage? Yes!

I've never really been a vampire person (I prefer werewolves) but in my humble opinion there hasn't been a vampire story worth crap since "The Lost Boys" or "Dark Shadows."

So - I agree w/ so many above me who've put it much better...it belongs in the "Should Have Never Even Been Made" category!
lyo
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11/08/09 @ 14:56
Twilight is NOT a horror film... Not even close!
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11/08/09 @ 16:53
Nope! Twilight is not even close to horror!
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11/08/09 @ 17:17
NO!!more like fantansy!!
kat
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11/08/09 @ 20:19
teen movie for sure i love my horror's and this was not one.
Justin
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11/08/09 @ 22:57
Twilight is a good series but I know it is nowhere near being a horror film because I know my horror movies because I grown up on horror movies and Twilight is not I repeat not Horror.
Keith
11/08/09 @ 22:58
What? Is it a slow news day on the bid or something? Must be for you guys to ask such an antagonistic question. Umm, no. Twilight isn't horror and I don't think it's even masquerading as such. If the movies have ever been classified thus, it's just for lack of a more fitting category.
WRATHCHILD78
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11/09/09 @ 12:28
HELL NO! Its Dawsons Creek with vampires, and bobo looking werewolves. If this gets put into the category of horror I'll give up all hope on all mankind, and slit my own damn throat!!
Angellic/KillerChild · http://www.myspace.com/wuzzupdonnie
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11/09/09 @ 13:02
NO, NO, NO!!!!! Twilight is nothing more than plagerism, piracy, and un-original ideas. Heck Stephanie Meyer has had over 12 lawsuits concerning the fallowing sentance. Hell, vampires and humans falling in love is about as old as the legend itself; which is (correct me if I'm wrong) over 3200 years!!!

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