Name a horror movie that wasn't classified as a Horror Movie

[Kristofer Bry]

The only requirement: Nothing supernatural or paranormal occurs in the film. My pick is a rather obvious one: The Silence of the Lambs. Perhaps you can dig deeper!

[friendly_iconoclast]

1. Easy: Alien

[Laffy Kat]

11. Seems like a lot of sci-fi falls into that gray zone.

I remember when "Alien" first came out and my parents saw it. The next day they described it to me as "a haunted house in space" and that's right on. Still, both "Alien" and "Aliens" are two of my favorite films and I'm not crazy over sci-fi.

[exboyfil]

22. Alien and Aliens pulled off something rare in an original and sequel

Both movies were top notch, but they were both from different genres. Alien is definitely horror, and Aliens is a war movie. Aliens in some ways is a remake of Them.

They are two of my top 20 all time as well.

[brush]

62. "Get out". It was put in the dark comedy category.

[Laffy Kat]

63. No more a comedy than "Stepford Wives", IMO. nt

[brush]

64. Yep, it was anything but a comedy.

[Bayard]

2. Clips

Clips of the last year in politics?

[Eugene]

3. The Poseidon Adventure

It's a survival film with many elements of horror including a hellish climax.

[Orange Free State]

4. The present administration? N/T

[ocd liberal]

5. Enron movie

The Smartest Person in the Room

Scariest movie I ever saw. Hypothetical Future Value?

[lunasun]

44. And W's biggest backer don't forget that

[FM123]

6. Jaws. I remember seeing it as a kid and feeling so scared, it may as well have been a horror movie.

[longship]

10. The definitive choice in this category.

The cast was quite wonderful. Robert Shaw gave an absolutely chilling portrayal as the slightly mad Quint. Dreyfus and Scheider were excellent in support. All told, a wonderful horror film.

The moment the shark first shows its face is iconic.

[Weed Man]

7. Anything by Pauly Shore

[Lochloosa]

13. Second that.

[Xipe Totec]

8. I married and Axe Murderer nt

[ret5hd]

9. Idiocracy.

I didn't realize how horrible the reality of that movie would be!

[Stardust1]

28. I second this!

[rzemanfl]

36. I third your second. n/t

[Upthevibe]

60. I fourth your third...n/t

[Orrex]

70. I have to confess that I hate that movie

I've seen it about four times, and with each viewing I recall that it's a brilliant two-minute concept stretched out to a feature-length film.

The film can be briefly and accurately summarized by anyone who's even heard of it, and that summary is guaranteed to be more entertaining than the film itself.

[Va Lefty]

12. Shawshank Redemption

I mean, if getting sent to jail for a double homicide you didn't commit isn't a horror story, I don't know what is.

[Bayard]

14. Jurassic Park

[lkinwi]

15. Midnight Lace-one of my favorites.

Doris Day, Rex Harrison

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054084/mediaviewer/rm3838840576

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. The Night of the Hunter.

Wait Until Dark.
The Bad Seed.

[sarge43]

17. Requiem for a Dream n/t

[dewsgirl]

25. +1

[msongs]

18. greatest story ever told nt

[demigoddess]

21. yes, I hated the part where Abraham was willing to kill his son Isaac in order to

please a God, god!!!

[jmowreader]

19. The Passion of the Christ

[longship]

65. Actual name: "Golgotha Chainsaw Massacre"

[ms liberty]

20. Schindlers List, Saving Private Ryan. n/t

[exboyfil]

23. This enters into quite a philosophical debate

What actually is a horror movie. Most movies that involve conflict can have elements of horror (and conflict is a major plot device).

Silence of the Lambs fits well into the horror genre (two human monsters).

For my money something like Of Mice and Men. While Curley is monstrous he is not the driving plot point. The protagonist being left with no good choices is the horror. In the same vein (and by the same author) is The Grapes of Wrath except the human monsters (being an uncaring society) drives the horror forward. So Steinbeck is a horror writer.

[charlyvi]

24. Dont Look Now

Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie. The denouement scared the crap out of me!

[TexasBushwhacker]

48. That is a great movie n/t

[Proud liberal 80]

26. Big Trouble in little China

Scared the shit out of me as a little kid

[shenmue]

27. Picnic at Hanging Rock

[Glorfindel]

29. "Klute" with Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland

I found it extremely frightening.

[rickford66]

30. Any documentary about Trump.

[mia]

31. Life is Beautiful

[Proud liberal 80]

32. Deliverance

[Hassin Bin Sober]

66. Don't ever watch that while on acid. Not that I would know or anything

[The_Casual_Observer]

33. Eraserhead

[The_Casual_Observer]

34. Blue Velvet

[forgotmylogin]

35. Willy Wonka/Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

It’s SAW for children. They come to grisly ends one by one by their own failings. (Nothing in the world is technically supernatural as Wonka’s powers are “science”.)

[Lint Head]

37. China Town

[no_hypocrisy]

38. Dementia 13 by Francis Ford Copolla

[Comatose Sphagetti]

39. Jesus Camp

Scariest fucking movie I ever saw.

[Upthevibe]

61. I know...Jesus Campus was horrifying...n/t

[pressbox69]

40. Jackie

I was expecting JFK but it was more like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

[lunasun]

41. Wait until Dark. Old but creepy

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It came out the same year as In Cold Blood

[lunasun]

42. Another was Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer

[TalenaGor]

43. the other side of the mountain- Jill kinmont story

Saw it when I was 7 or 8 and I can still hear that scream...

Stayed with me for 40+ years

[cemaphonic]

45. Repulsion

One of the most memorable and unsettling films ever.

[MFM008]

68. Agree

.....

[Kristofer Bry]

46. SE7EN

I'm astonished that no one has mentioned it yet!

[C_U_L8R]

47. The Donald Trump Story

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It'll scare the shit out of you

[MLAA]

53. +1

[Leith]

49. Notorious

The one from 1946, with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. It's classified as a drama, a film-noir, and romance, but several scenes had me on the edge of my seat.

[TexasBushwhacker]

50. The Handmaid's Tale

A horror movie for women at least.

[TexasBushwhacker]

51. Play Misty for Me n/t

[StatGirl]

52. Brigadoon

Granted, the entire situation is supernatural, so maybe this doesn't qualify. But people tend to think of it as a love story, when the implications of being in Brigadoon are in fact horrifying.

[pangaia]

54. Mary Poppins.

[Renew Deal]

55. Weekend at Bernie's

I mean really... They are carrying around a corpse...

[dchill]

56. Check.

[LisaM]

57. The Birds.

My sister and I, both, I'm sure, under ten, saw it on TV at my grandparents' house in the country and that night actual birds flew through the chimney and into the house while we were in bed.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

58. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

I ran from the theater screaming and immediately plucked my eyes out.

[lapfog_1]

59. Barbarella

Death by Matmos or Death by Orgasmatron

[rogerballard]

67. Serial Mom

[mr_lebowski]

69. Misery ... I don't recall any supernatural/paranormal in that ...

Halloween too actually I don't recall any paranormal in either though it was def. classified as 'horror'.

The Stand could also arguably be called 'not paranormal' ... as could The Shining ... now, to qualify, these two King stories require you to look at certain parts as figments of peoples imaginations, but the stories don't necessarily 'rely' on 'paranormal' being 'real' ... not like Pet Sematary or Christine or Carrie or Firestarter, for example.