![]() For every Personal Shopper or In Fabric there are Rotten movies like Brahms: The Boy II, The Turning, Fantasy Island, and The Grudge (all released in 2020) dragging the average down like the Lamia demon did to unlucky folks in Drag Me to Hell. With the likes of The Exorcist, The Omen, The Evil Dead, The Dark and the Wicked, Drag Me to Hell, The Sixth Sense, The Uninvited, and House on Haunted Hill within the paranormal subgenre, it’s taken a lot of Rotten films to drop the Tomatometer average down to 46%. courtesy Everett Collection)ĭefinition: Films that feature ghosts, spirits, or religious elements With all of that out of the way, here’s how our five subgenres ranked, according to the Tomatometer: We also recognize that there are some films that would qualify for more than one of our subgenres, and in those cases, we went with the one that fit best. We’re fully aware that there are a myriad of horror subgenres that have been left out - there is no dark fantasy, splatterpunk, revenge, found footage, giallo, or horror comedy - but many of these films fall under the five categories above. Gore/Disturbing – ( Hostel, The Loved Ones, Green Inferno, A Serbian Film, Saw).Monster – ( The Descent, The Host, Frankenstein, The Wolf Man, Day of the Dead).Psychological – ( We Need to Talk About Kevin, Midsommar, Goodnight Mommy, Don’t Look Now, Creep, Berberian Sound Studio).Paranormal – ( Paranormal Activity, The Others, Devil, The Uninvited, The Exorcist).Killer – ( Halloween, Urban Legend, Black Christmas, I Know What You Did Last Summer).Here are the subgenres we used, with some examples to illustrate how we separated the movies: Why only five? We wanted to prevent a Russian nesting doll-esque situation in which we had subgenres of subgenres, like “monster movie musicals with a hint of angsty teenager elements” (think Anna and the Apocalypse). We used this handy flowchart that the horror-loving internet didn’t hate to define 1,038 horror films with at least 20 reviews into the following categories: Killer/Slasher, Paranormal, Psychological, Monster, and Gore/Violence. With the third installment of the primary Conjuring film series (and eighth Conjuring Universe movie overall) about to drop, we decided to hack up 1,000+ horror films into five principal subgenres to determine which of them has the best Tomatometer average. ![]() What started with a three-minute story about a supernatural creature harassing people is now a multi-billion dollar enterprise that has produced thousands of horror films of all stripes. In the 125 years between the 1896 release of Georges Melies’ three-minute supernatural ghost story The House of the Devil and this week’s horror film The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, the horror genre has divided and conquered by telling stories about killers, monsters, ghosts, demons, genetically modified sharks (we love Deep Blue Sea), gaslighters, and Sam Neill going insane ( Event Horizon, In the Mouth of Madness). (Photo by Everett Collection, ©Lionsgate courtesy Everett Collection, ©Paramount courtesy Everett Collection, ©Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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