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The Terminator has been listed as one of the Media and drama good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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James Cameron FINALLY Confirms What Horror Fans Have Always Thought About The Terminator

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James Cameron (the director) confirmed The Terminator is a science fiction horror film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OnDUpjNqiw — Preceding unsigned comment added by LRQ 98 (talk • contribs)

We don't use primary sources for genre determination purposes. If Cameron called it a "tragicomic romance", would you advocate that we add that to the article? DonIago (talk) 01:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Ditto. Genre classification is based on how reliable, secondary sources have interpreted the work, not on how the work's creator intended for it to be interpreted. --GoneIn60 (talk) 14:41, 4 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Additional to the above, WP:FILMLEAD instructs that "the opening sentence should identify ... the primary genre or sub-genre under which it is verifiably classified". The genre is indisputably science-fiction, and the WP:WEIGHT of sources favor "action" over "horror" for the sub-genre. Nobody disputes that the film contains horror elements, but it is generally regarded as a Sci-Fi action film. This is expanded on in The Terminator#Genre. Betty Logan (talk) 16:21, 4 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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James Cameron FINALLY Confirms What Horror Fans Have Always Thought About The Terminator