This is a side track from my usual posts. But I just had an idea about a genre of movies. You could call them the “what if” movies – “What if” movies could be defined as a cross genre. They are movies that exist in many different of the more traditional genres such as comedy, science fiction, horror, disaster. But they are still very similar in terms of a narrative question they pose. By cross genre I mean that although they officially belong to very different genres they have one very similar defining characteristic in the narrative of the films. The “What if” movie are thought experiments that takes their point of departure in the question “What if…? What if there was zombies everywhere and I had to survive. What if I woke up the same day over and over again? What if the ice age started all over? What if humanity stopped being fertile?
Answer the question and you have yourself a “what if” movie.
