I just sent him home. I domesticated him, left him in my sad, gray little home in Megaton, trying to keep him safe, and feeling immense guilt when I went home and saw he had been sitting there, waiting for me the whole time.

Well, calling it a knockoff seems a bit disingenuous, no? They're both made by Bungie (until the last two Halo games).

Prince is a movie you probably couldn't make now, for better or worse.

Another Ghosts of Mars defender? I thought we had all died out.

See also: Surf Nazis Must Die!

Yeah. The other guy is too preachy!

That's actually more in keeping with Romero's zombies. They follow all of Romero's rules as well - that everyone who dies comes back, they're slow moving, and they only die from a shot to the head.

It's not pretentious, it's pretty practical.

Aren't Bloodborne and Dark Souls and such supposed to be them emulating western RPGs?

"Yes, their gun violence is low, but the human cost from mech battles is off the charts."

Genre should be a tag of convenience and not a magical sorting hat. Movies don't have to fit neatly in genres.

Yep. Subgenre's seem important, becuase you can actually argue about whether something is a zombie movie, a home invasion thriller, a horror comedy, etc.

I was definitely creeped out by the end, and in the bombing of the diner sequence. I was horrified.

In general, my point is this: we're not running a video store. Movies don't have to fit neatly into one category. Return of the Living Dead (or Slither, or Motel Hell) are horror movies AND comedies. Saying a movie is in a genre or not seems silly in a post-modern society where every movie pulls from every source.

The question of "What is horror?" is such a muddy one, especially when you bring in arthouse horror, thrillers inspired by a history of horror (Gone Girl, notably), horror comedies, horror movies that aren't "scary" (Universal Monster movies, arguably), etc.

That distinction is pedantic.

It's certainly not an outright bad movie, and the visuals are definitely there. A very cool looking movie.

Well, you did comment on a board to mock a movie. Clearly you give a shit enough.

The Innkeepers and House of the Devil work as litmus tests for whether you and I have the same taste in horror. Both require patience and refuse to just throw garbage in your face to distract you, and both have incredible climaxes.

Have you seen The Guest? It most definitely is.