Why was this closed? I provided a legit source, which is IMDb. Cloverfield is a horror film.

https://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1060277/?ref_=instant_tt_1&q=Cloverfield

https://screenrant.com/cloverfield-movie-two-monsters-theory-explained/

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/5/16976184/cloverfield-paradox-review-netflix-gugu-mbatha-raw-david-oyelowo-chris-odowd

I'd also like to add that both sequels are marked with horror but yet this one isn't?

What mod continues to close this without an explanation? Just going to ignore the two sequels that are marked as horror and the sources that classify this film as horror?

Cloverfield should absolutely be marked as Horror. This is mod abuse.

Hi, first time looking at this topic and this issue, but since I've watched the movie I agree that it's not a traditional horror movie and more of a thriller with strong science-fiction and action elements. I think the current genres are fine. Comparing this to American Psycho (since it was also reported as needing the horror genre added a while back), there was surprisingly less support among critics and other websites to see this as horror. IMDb has this listed as one of five genres, so not a slam dunk case at all.

Cloverfield is a monster movie. I consider all monster movies to be horror, going back to King Kong, the Universal Monsters, and even The Golem. I haven't seen Cloverfield in several years, but the whole film is about fleeing in terror from a rampaging creature. That's a classic horror premise. I get how you could say that there are action and sci-fi elements, but the core is horror, imo.

We can wait and see if another moderator shares your perspective.

That's cool. I'm fine with respectful disagreement. I was not cool with a mod repeatedly locking the genre and the thread and totally ignoring the conversation. Not sure what was up with that.

This is a giant monster that attacks a city and people die violently and explode and the subway scene. It won best horror movie of the year. "Bloody Disgusting ranked the film number twenty in their list of the 'Top 20 Horror Films of the Decade'" saying "'much like Blair Witch nearly ten years earlier, Cloverfield helped prove, particularly in its first half hour, that what you don't see can be the scariest thing of all'".

If THIS isn't a horror basically every horror made in the 50s isn't a horror.

"Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that it is "pretty scary at times" and cites "unmistakable evocations of 9/11"."