Ok, the whole thing is tricky. Putting a movie into a specific genre. Where do thrillers end and horror movies begin. I guess I should lead off with what got me thinking, there exists a movie titled Apt Pupil. It was adopted from a Steven King short story and stars the always wonderful Ian McLellin as an ex-Nazi living out his days in hiding in the United States, his neighbor takes interest, and eventually finds out who he is, which leads to more deception, and domination over each other. The movie explains that as a nazi Sir Mclellins character was responsible for many atrocities, which intetest the boy even more. They both take on traits of eachoter and eventually leads to a murder as well as him being found out by the Isreali procecutors. The movie is labeled as a thriller, and I would totally agree, however it contains what I believe to be some of the most gutwrenching, and terrifying things I have ever watched. There is very little blood and gore in this movie, but the domination that the boy takes over, as well as his actions and behavior throught the movie makes for a very interesting, if not terrifying movie.
Now thrillers being labeled as horror is nothing new, but I feel like the other way around is a much higher mark. Movies like Fallen, Apt Pupil, and Pycho are very easy to suggest to fans of the horror genres, but it seems that a movie must reach a certain level of prominence before it can lose its stigma of being a horror film.
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