I consider it horror. The scene in Ghostbusters 2 where the heads pop up in the subway scared me as a kid.

EgonSpengler86;159870
I consider it horror. The scene in Ghostbusters 2 where the heads pop up in the subway scared me as a kid.

Same. I'd always leave the room and wait for that scene to pass when I was a kid.

Ectofiend;159820
And some people believe that if “it don't have tits, blood, and gore, it ain't horror”…

I think you can see just a little bit of the left one when Dana's on top of the apartment building…or is it the right one?

Nix;159881
I think you can see just a little bit of the left one when Dana's on top of the apartment building…or is it the right one?

Left or Stage Right! I have it framed on my wall… :p
Of course, that was a joke. I'm not THAT creepy.

In all seriousness, though, the GB movies are horror, though almost not to the extent of what people normally believe “horror” is…there are very few “BOO!” moments throughout either of them, but the real scares lie in some of the ideas they put forward. For example, I find the idea that all of our collective repressed negative emotions will one day come back and bite us in the ass to be genuinely terrifying.

I was always terrified of the Terror Dogs when I was a kid. I remember having nightmares about the Terror Dogs being at my front door doing the exact same thing as they did to Dana's kitchen door until they finally broke down the door and ame into my bedroom sniffing around looking for me.

I remember seeing Ghostbusters II in theaters and I was pretty scared as well (I was only 4 years old) My Aunt always told me that I covered my eyes through most of the movie, even through a Trident (I think it was Trident) Gum commercial as ridicules as it sounds.