[quote=“G”]I was prob making a crappy statement there, because I like directors like Zombie (loved his ex-band White Zombie) and the fact that he loves past horror films and knows about them, like a little version of Tarantino, but just to horror films.[/quote]
Yeah, but it’s understandable. I used to feel the same way, but as of recent I’ve come to appreciate just where horror cinema stands and what can be accomplished.
And I would definitely say that Let the Right One In is a horror. Despite the romantic influence, just on pure content I’d say it has to be qualified as a horror. I think sometimes there’s a gut instinct to label a film as something other than “horror” when it breaks through those genre barriers and takes on a more classically artistic approach or blends genres. Almost as if it’s “too good” for the genre, but I would say with the few scares it has and the fact that it deals with and plays with classic horror-genre pastiche - it just has to be qualified that way.
