The
Terminator, directed by James Cameron, is known as a sci-fi genre classic
movie. But according to research and report, it is more of a horror genre movie
rather than sci-fi. Since the movie came out, James Cameron has filmed many
other successful movies, and now he is a successful director. His earlier
career was mainly made of classic movies except one that successfully made
billion of box office collections. The first movie that made Cameron, a popular
director, was the 1984’s breakout film “The
Terminator.” That movie was just the beginning of the extremely famous
multimedia franchise, which is still working on an extensive level.
The
current time is not going well for the Terminator franchise since most of the
previous movies were not good as expected by the viewers as well as critics.
Especially the last title Terminator: Dark Fate did not shatter the theaters,
but it was like a stone is sinking. But the Dark Fate is a guarantee by Cameron
that the franchise would never die, and it has made a world of Cameron’s
Terminator sequels that all links to the original film’s story. The first movie
introduced Sarah Connor, portrayed by Linda Hamilton, Cameron’s spouse. She is
hunted down by a cybernetic killer portrayed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and in
the same movie, Kyle Reese, played by Micheal Biehn, tries to protect her.
The film
is utterly watched and considered a sci-fi-action movie, and the movie story
introduces many things which make it look a pure science fiction movie. The
movie features sci-fi things like time travel, cybernetic robots, conscious AI,
as well as the information about the upcoming future. When the movie features
killing or murdering scenes, The Terminator shows many terrifying and horror
scenes that are also presented in a Horror movie. Due to these all reasons, it
is not even a surprise saying it a horror genre movie.
Why
the Terminator Is Actually A Slasher Movie
The
thing that made the movie similar to the slasher genre is the hunting of Sarah
Connor by the artificially intelligent bot T-800. In the first movie, Sara
Connor is shown as an innocent and frightened lady who keeps escaping from the
killing machine, and she relies on Kyle Reese to survive by the cybernetic
killing bot. Terminator 2 introduces her as a strong and violent lady who is
held under prison due to some reasons. In the original movie, she is the
survivor, and a weak woman show does not even know what will happen to her in
the future attacks. She is much helpless and portrayed as an innocent woman.
The cybernetic monster, aka T-800, is shown as inevitable, ruthless, will
slaughter anyone who comes in his mission, and shows no sorrow or regret for
killing and hurting someone.
The
other fact that proves it is a horror sub-genre, the police shown in the movie
is completely futile, to a certain extent since they decline to trust about the
truth of a cybernetic assassin is harming people in their city. Later in the
movie, they are shown to be useless and unprepared for the super-strong T-800.
Moving further in the movie, Sarah & Kyle – while they must supposedly be
on their preparation for the monster’s molest at each possible second – even
deal with to job in the standard slasher unnecessary sex scene, full with
nakedness. Yes, we can say that it was a glimpse of how John Connor will be
born in the future, but it is a plot set-up. At last, as with the common of
final girls, Sarah Connor does come across a way to conquer her hunter in the
conclusion of the film.
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