If languages were movie genres, perl would be:

• Fantasy, why is this even a question?
• Historical. Because it's so old backward compatible
• Horror. I mean, there's goto, map in void context, regexes to parse nested data ... *fear*
• Zombies. You should be careful what you autovivify
• Romance. Watch as the oddest of combinations actually work better than you'd expect.
• Mystery. Trying to answer this age-old question: "Wait... how does this even work?"
• Adult. Looking at you, perlsecret operators.
• Drama. Here's what happens when you give people more rope to shoot themselves in the foot.
• Comedy. But it only works in the right context.

Obvious bonus question: what about other languages? :)