Dear Andrew:
What you seem to decry, then, is films in the "slasher" subgenre of horror...which, with a few exceptions (like Halloween), I agree are cheap and exploitative. While Ridley Scott's "Alien" can be classified as sci-fi (though its sequel, James Cameron's "Aliens" is certainly of the Bug Eyed Monster type), all major lists of good horror films feature "The Exorcist" as an archetype.
Dan
5) I don't consider "The Exorcist" and "Alien" to be horror films. I am
speaking largely of slice-and-dice films that attempt to dress themselves up as something they are not. They are repetitious, formulaic, and dull. They are made solely for profit.
Andrew
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