The Terminator (1984)
Nightmare on Film Street - A Horror Movie Podcast
Kimberley Elizabeth & Jonathan Dehaan
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Spoiler Alert! The Terminator (1984) is a slasher film. You can disagree all you want but on this week's episode of Nightmare on Film Street, your horror hosts Kimmi & Jon (well, mostly just Jon. Kimmi might still be unconvinced) lay out their case and as to why James Cameron's monumental sci-fi/action stunner is totally a horror movie.
Here's a brief outline of the argument: The Terminator is a slasher villain because he is an unstoppable, expressionless killing machine, just like Michael Myers. He only walks but always catches up with his victims, just like Jason Voorhees (not to mention that bullets cannot stop him). And maybe the most damning evidence of all- he's trying to stop two young lovers from having premarital sex by killing everyone around them with ruthless brutality! Still not convinced??? Join ussssss
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nightmare on Film Street. |
| 0:05.0 | The current time is 666. |
| 0:10.0 | Traffic is clear ahead from here to the afterlife, but it's hell outside. |
| 0:17.0 | So, let's give a grave welcome to our hosts, John and Kim. |
| 0:26.9 | Hello again, Fiends, and welcome to Nightmare on Film Street, the horror movie podcast for The Casually Obsessed. |
| 0:33.3 | I'm Kimmy. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm John. |
| 0:35.0 | And this week, we're doing, like, not a horror movie? What do you? Okay. We're doing an action sci-fi... Horror movie. Spooky. Action sci-fi horror movie. Yeah, no, I totally am of the camp that Terminator, which we are talking about today, that's right. Is horror, at least horror adjacent. |
| 0:54.5 | Absolutely. |
| 0:55.0 | If there's a Venn diagram of action or sci-fi and horror, Terminator is in that crossover part. |
| 1:05.5 | It's in the center of that Venn diagram. |
| 1:07.0 | I was like, what do you officially call that? |
| 1:09.6 | You're right. |
| 1:10.2 | Horror movie is not what you first think of when you think of the Terminator, but it is absolutely in that Venn diagram. And that Venn diagram is called Tech Noir, which is a term... It's the name of the club in the movie. Exactly. James Cameron is the person who came up with that title, essentially. Is Technoire a real thing? |
| 1:28.3 | Not really. |
| 1:29.3 | It's kind of, it's a subgenre that exists in the head canon of nerds. |
| 1:33.3 | Of James Cameron. |
| 1:35.3 | You know, movies like Blade Runner get put into it. |
| 1:38.3 | It is essentially movies that are dark, futuristic, |
| 1:42.3 | Noir. |
| 1:43.3 | Sure, why not? |
| 1:45.1 | Let's throw it in there. |
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