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It's certainly not jump scare horror; it's more existential.

I enjoy horror movies, but they've long since stopped "scaring" me. To me, they're mostly just fun -- seeing the effects, the ways they'll put their own twists on genre tropes, etc.

Annihilation, for me, invoked a true sense of dread and, well, horror. It's several years old but still lingers with me.

(After writing this I realized you said 2013, not 2018... hope that's just a typo and we're talking about the same movie)

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Oh yeah I meant 2018. Yeah my favorite horror is the ones that give you that dread and what if scenarios.

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I would call it existential horror. It has a threat that is beyond understanding and a faith possibly worse than death for some characters.

Apart from that it has great themes. A fantastic movie overall

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I'm terrible at horror movies. The bear was in my mind for months. Even now it still comes to mind when I'm closing my eyes in the shower.

I did not read the billing, did not realize it was at all a horror movie going in.

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I think my criteria for if something's a horror movie is answering this question: is it trying to scare me, or otherwise make me uncomfortable? If yes, then I think it belongs in the category to some degree. A lot of angst is spent by genre fans (horror especially, I've noticed?) wondering if something belongs in the genre, and I personally think a lot of it is unnecessary.

Enjoy what you enjoy, and if it spooks ya then I think it's fair to at least say it has horror elements.

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Yeah it isn't scary, but I'm kind of desensitized to scares these days. Talk to Me was a good movie with some prefictable cliches but not scary. There was a similar dread about what was going to happen that had me tense in some parts though.

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