Kevin Feige Wouldn’t Say Doctor Strange 2 Is A Horror Film

During an appearance at the New York Film Academy (via Joblo), Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said that Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness isn’t really a horror film, although director Scott Derrickson said that it would bring elements of the genre to the MCU.

He said: “I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a horror film, but it is, as Scott Derrickson — our director — has pitched it, a big MCU film with scary sequences in it. When I was a kid in the ‘80s, Spielberg did an amazing job [doing that]. There are horrifying sequences in Raiders [of the Lost Ark] that I would, as a little kid, [cover my eyes] when their faces melted. Or Temple of Doom, of course, or Gremlins or Poltergeist. These are the movies that invented the PG-13 rating, by the way — they were PG and they were like, ‘We need another [rating].’ But that’s fun, it’s fun to be scared in that way and not a horrific, torturous way, but in a way that is legitimately scary because Scott Derrickson’s quite good at that. But scary in the service of an exhilarating emotion.“