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Re:Is horror the most disrespected genre? by __david__ on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:17PM (#17676686)
The arguing about what genre these movies fit in sounds like metal or electronica fans arguing about which band is in which sub-sub-genre. I personally think of genres as tags rather than exclusive silos. The best stuff often doesn't fit neatly into a single genre.

As for "Intelligent Horror" demeaning "normal" horror—I'm not sure I've ever heard people complaining about IDM[1] vs EDM[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_dance_music

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music

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Re:Is horror the most disrespected genre? by plorkyeran on Thursday August 02, 2018 @09:30PM (#17676726)
Er, straight from the wikipedia page you linked:

> The term "intelligent dance music" has been widely criticised and rejected by artists associated with the style, including Aphex Twin and µ-Ziq, as elitist and derogatory towards other genres. [...] In 2014, music critic Sasha Frere-Jones observed that the term "is widely reviled but still commonly used".

Half the page is discussing the backlash against the term on the exact same grounds.

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