Updates

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.