Stigma #2

There are of course directors that absolutely transend this mold. Hitchcock is absolutely renowned as one of the greatest directors of all time and Pycho will almost always be noted as one of the best “horror” films, with Norman Baits always being known as one of the best “horror” villians. The Brids and Rear Window are also notable as being inbetween the horror and thriller categories. Peter Jackson won an academy award for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, but will always be beloved by the entire film community not because of the Lord of the Rings or Hobbit series, but because of his first two movies, cult favorites Dead/Alive and XXXX , two low budget gorefests filmed in his native New Zeland. David Cronenburg comes to mind. Sam Rami of Spiderman fame directed The Evil Dead seriese and Army of Darkeness, two of the largest cult films that are loved by many. Ridley Scott is another great director. Alien is one of the scariest movies ever made, and it is wonderfully shot and clostrophobic that it always is on the list of greatest movies of all time. He went on to direct Blade Runner, and Gladiator. Even giant James Cameron who directed the two most profitable movie of all time Titanic and Avatar directed Aliens. Rosemary’s Baby which is one of the creepiest, and most loved movies of all tme was directed by the controvercial Roman Polanski. The movie itself transends horror s does Stanley Kubrik’s The Shining. What is it about these two movies especially that people will take as far as not even calling them horror. What is the stigma? Why do we perpetuate this.