Where's the SciFi in this?

[Gemini1999]

Hey everyone -

I saw a promo for a film that was on Skiffy this evening and I thought something was odd about it, so I went to the Skiffy site to look it up. Here's the title and description:

SCI FI WORLD PREMIERE: FIRE: NATURE UNLEASHED

Several young campers on a weekend outing find themselves on the run in a spreading maze of forest fires. As if that weren't bad enough, there's also a homicidal lunatic pursuing them through the blazes — and possibly setting more fires to cut off their only avenues of escape. This red-hot tale of coldblooded revenge stars Bryan Genesse (Death Train, Cyborg Cop III) and Melanie Lewis (Gigli, the big-screen version of Starsky & Hutch).

Airs Sunday, December 26, at 9PM ET/PT

Now, I read somewhere in an article where Bonnie Hammer was defending some of the horror films being shown, as she claims that Horror has an element of SciFi attached to it. How does a film about an arsonist and forest fires even remotely come close to either Horror or SciFi genres?

I think that 'ol Bonnie's snapped her cap.....!

Later,
Bryan

[Darth Marley]

I agree that horror has little to do with sf.

H.P. Lovecraft style horror I might find some common themes with conventional sf.
Fantasy I enjoy enough to not complain about any airings on SFC.

I really wish someone would give me the dirt on this: I read in some forum that most of the bad horror/sf films on skiffy list two particular skiffy execs as "producers" in some capacity.

While BH may not have a clue about what would please the sf fans, these two geeks (and their removal from all things sf) might actually have more impact on the quality of programs they churn out.

[Dawg]

Actually, Bryan, there is a science fiction link in that description - Bryan Genesse played in a movie called Cyborg Cop III. Never heard of it, but cyborgs are a sci-fi element. So there's an actor in this film that once was in a sci-fi film! They're covered!

And of course there's a TON of science fiction in The Flintstones and Flintstones: Viva Rock Vegas! If there wasn't, the Sci-Fi Channel sure wouldn't play them, would they!

(I looked up "Cyborg Cop" at IMDB - all three films rated under 3 stars. Tells 'ya sumthin, don't it?)



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Dawg