The Three - Horror?

packfan20 · October 2015

I didn't find this "horror". I didn't even find it creepy. I think it COULD have had more horror to it if it focused more on the kids instead of the religious fanatics.

SnShne322 · October 2015

I've been thinking a bit about it and it wasn't horror in the creepy scary sense. Maybe a little when she little girl talks into the recording, but that was the high point. I just wonder if it's horror in the sense that it's terrifying to think what 4 plane crashes and 3 little "innocent" survivors can do to the entire earth. The zealots and the terrified people. It's a bit horrific when you see Elspeth's POV at the end. The world is falling apart and it all stems from that one day.

SusieBW · October 2015

I didn't get why this was categorized as horror, either. I feel like, if you have to look that hard to try and justify the genre, then it's probably not quite accurate. I didn't think it was creepy at all either.

dmlk413 · October 2015

I also don't think it was horror. There were a few creepy parts for me but not enough to be deemed anything close to horror.

julie37619 · October 2015

Hmmmmm. I guess it depends on how broad you allow the genre to be? I'd definitely say I found it as eerie as We Have Always Lived in the Castle. And it could also very well be that my opinion is colored by having read Day Four as well. For those who wouldn't consider it horror, how would you classify it?

j*&p* · October 2015

I guess I'd still put it in the very broad horror category, but I also didn't find it scary at all and I scare easily.

julie37619 · October 2015

j*&p* said:

I guess I'd still put it in the very broad horror category, but I also didn't find it scary at all and I scare easily.

I agree it's only in the broadest sense. I wouldn't describe it as scary, more eerie or vaguely creepy. But I also can't think of another genre I'd put it in. It's not really sci-fi or fantasy or thriller.

SusieBW · October 2015

Yeah, if this has been categorized as a thriller, I wouldn't have agreed with that either.

Maybe just pure literary fiction?

duxcaelo · October 2015

I also didn't think it was genre horror, but I found it suspenseful. It reminded me a lot of a Stephen King novel, which I sometimes have a tough time classifying.

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