10 Famous Movies Whose Genres Everybody Always Seems To Get Wrong

For the love of God, please stop calling Star Wars a science-fiction film!!

By Mark Ginocchio /

The cinematic universe is filled with films suffering from a genre identity crisis. These are movies that, on the surface, appear to qualify as being a representative member of a specified genre such as €œhorror€ or €œscience fiction€ but, once you take a closer look at the film€™s plot, themes and characters, the designated assignment proves to be bunk. For example, a film categorized as €œscience fiction€ needs to contain elements of fictionalised science, and not simply feature planets and spaceships. And a €œhorror€ movie should contain elements of the supernatural and macabre. Often times, these inaccurate genre designations are born from how a movie is marketed: i.e. a trailer that focuses heavily on a film€™s comedic elements while glossing over its dramatic or frightening qualities. One can also find similar misrepresentations from a tagline used in a print ad or promotional poster. In other instances, these misidentifications are born because somebody - either a critic or someone associated with the film - declares the movie is a seminal representation of a specific genre and, regardless of its veracity, the designation sticks. Here are 10 famous movies that are suffering from a bad case of a genre identity crisis...