In this week's episode, we're joined by our friend Bruce as we use our rubric system to determine whether Christopher Nolan's new film, The Odyssey, is a horror film, mostly horror, horror-adjacent, or not horror at all.
This week, we're trying something new.
Our show is built around the idea that some films may not be "traditional" horror, but still feel mostly horror, or at least horror-adjacent. To explore that idea, we've created a rubric to determine whether a film qualifies as horror.
For our first attempt, there was no better film to put to the test than Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. We're joined by our friend Bruce as we evaluate the film across five categories: its intent, its storytelling DNA (how much of the film is built from horror storytelling), the horror experience, its horror iconography, and, ultimately, whether it should be classified as not horror, horror-adjacent, mostly horror, or a certified horror film.
Do you think Nolan's The Odyssey is horror? We'd love to hear your thoughts. So…
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