Is Oldboy horror?

[TerrorScribe]

It's horrifying but it's a different type of horrifying. Torturing and sibling setups are scary but not in the same sense as seeing a killer jump out of the closet or having a monster lunge out at you from a lake. Both horrific but completely different.

But the thing is that the idea of torture is horrifying whereas a jump scare is just merely startling. I think a lot more movies are accepted as horror movies because they are truly horrifying. Take "The Human Centipede" for instance. There are no jump scares in that movie, and it's really not overtly scary but conceptually, it's horrifying.

The one characteristic is that a horror movie has to scare the audience by use of psychological or physical scares. That characteristic has to be present throughout the entire film or at least half of the film. Having a few snit bits here and there shouldn't constitute it as a horror, otherwise we'd have a hell of a lot more horror movies out there.

Some movies that I think I have psychological scares throughout: The Silence of the Lambs, Misery, Se7en.

Just sayin'.