Well what do you think? Maybe it started a new genre called scifi/horror which was added to by The Thing, Event Horizon etc.
Its sci-fi because its set in the future, aboard a spaceship but its really just a big old haunted house and people are bumped off one by one. Its a tough call my friends.

a scifi horror maybe??

it has both elements there without a doubt, but which is the stronger force? I just dont know!

Sci-Horror?

Colin.<*>.

Horri-fi?

nice!

Out and out horror movie. Even the ship is simply a gothic castle thrown into outer space. Simply because a movie has trappings of SciFi (future, space ships, etc) does not make it a SciFi movie. The crew of the Nostrodamus do not have any future technology to battle the Alien, they rely on the old make it up as you go along.

Ah but is it the other way round??

a scifi film with trappings of horror!??

we need someone with a lot of time of their hands to work out the percentages of horror v scifi, like the match of the day does! who has most ball possesion!

Well it does include science in the fiction, the technology of the future is shown. The diagnostic room, the hypersleep and the ship itself for example. I could ask the same question about John Carpenter's The Thing (1982). That film does it the opposite way, it is set in the modern world but the science and biology of another race intrudes. And then comes the horror.

Aliens is a SciFi movie, Alien isn't.

The plot thickens!

I took this discussion to work, we decided scif horror was a good name, but preditor, is neither scifi or horror......its action!! (it was on last night, thats why the subject came up, the alien v pred )

I just like watchin' them !!

Pigeon holes are for 'Pigeons !!

The movie is similar to Event Horizon, it has a SciFi background, but is firmly rooted in horror. Either movie could have moved to an old scottish castle or the Maryland Woods without losing anything in plot development in all reality.

Or it could be set in the place where I work. One of the managers has been nicknamed Alienhead for some obvious reasons and we do try to avoid him. He catches us skiving at the most unlikliest places too.