Updates

The search page now understands plain English. Click the sparkle in the search bar and describe what you’re after — “japanese found footage on shudder”, “slashers set at summer camp”, “Tom Savini make-up effects from the 80s” — and we’ll translate it into the right filters and run the search. It’s a smarter front door to the same catalog, and it always shows you exactly how it read your request so you can adjust from there.

A new release calendar lists every upcoming horror film with a confirmed date for the next twelve months, grouped by month. The homepage now also surfaces what’s in theaters now, what’s newly arrived on streaming, and what’s coming soon — so you can always see what’s worth watching this week.

We started a Discord server — come ask questions, suggest films, flag anything broken, or just talk horror. There’s a bot in there too: type /film to pull up any film’s details without leaving the chat.

Search results are now ordered by our own community’s ratings by default, rather than critic scores alone — and the ranking sharpens as more members rate films. You can still sort by Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDb, popularity, or newest whenever you like.

A new kind of list that members build together. The Horror Codex starts a Community List around a theme — time-loop films, folk horror, killer cars — and any signed-in member can add films that fit. Every addition is credited to whoever made it and counts toward the contributor leaderboard. Look for the Community filter on the lists page.

Creating and editing your own lists is far smoother now. The editor is a single page with click-to-edit title and description, drag-to-reorder posters, per-film notes, and one-click adding — from a search box or straight from your watchlist, seen, and rated films.

There’s now a leaderboard recognising the people who build out the Codex — the films rated, lists published, notes written, and edits that sharpen the catalog. Each board can be viewed all-time or for the current month.

Your Seen list now opens a preview panel when you click a poster — the same one you get on the search page — so you can rate a film’s intensity without leaving the page. There’s also a new My Intensity sort to order your watched films up most to least extreme.

Every film now has a second rating beside the usual stars: intensity. It measures how intense or punishing a film’s content is — from gateway horror to the genuinely extreme — and is kept completely separate from how good the film is. Look for the scream-face control on any film page and rate what you’ve watched.

You can now follow other people on the site. Your homepage and the new activity feed surface the films the people you follow have recently rated, watched, added to a list, or written about. This is the basis of a new layer of social interaction on the site, but these features will be based around film discovery, rather than user clout.

Notes on films can now be reacted to with a small set of emoji, and curated lists have their own comment threads. This enables discussion and recommendations.

We launched a weekly newsletter covering new horror in theaters and on streaming, a video of the week, and an editor’s pick. Sign up in the footer, or read past issues in the archive.

Directors, actors, writers, and crew now have their own pages that collect their full horror filmography. Click any name on a film to see everything they’ve worked on in the genre.

The editorial content on the genre, decade, country, and format pages has been substantially rewritten and expanded. Each page now carries a deeper history text, a longer list of essential films, and refined key filmmakers and actors lists — all cross-linked so you can follow a thread from one corner of the genre to the next.