Horror Fan Camps

Horror fans come in all forms, with different tastes and preferences shaping how they engage with the genre.

Please enjoy our breakdown of the different camps of horror fans!

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Love extreme violence, incredible practical effects, and over-the-top bloodshed.
Favourite sub-genres include Torture-porn, Zombie, Splatter, and slasher.
Favorites include Saw (2004), Hostel (2005), and Evil Dead (2013).
These horror fans tend to hate all horror movies that don't have gore and human suffering for them to laugh at, there is nothing they love more than an annoying character being brutally murdered.

Prefer slow-burn tension, unsettling themes, and mind-bending narratives.
Favourites include The Shining (1980), Hereditary (2018), and The Babadook (2014).
There is nothing these intelligent horror fans love more than a fresh story, a great twist, and unbearable existential dread.
These fans are very unlikely to re-watch a film, believing they will never be able to replicate the way it made them feel the first time they watched it.

Love old-school horror, especially films from the 60s-80s, with the slasher genre being a favourite.
Favorites include Carrie (1976), Psycho (1960), and Halloween (1978).
Fans in this camp consider themselves more cultured than the general public, they only enjoy films that already stand the test of time, considered to be masterpieces.
these "Purists" fiercely protest remakes and Requels, they are avid keyboard warriors, bombing new films in their brutal reviews.
Fans in this camp usually dislike Paranormal and Found Footage films.

Enjoy ghost stories, demonic possessions, and eerie atmospheres.
Favourites include The Conjuring (2013), Insidious (2010), and The Exorcist (1973).
Scientifically, these films are among the scariest, and fans love to experience chills and existential dread, getting a thrill out of how uncomfortable a film can make them, the more jump scares the better!
Fans in this camp are less inclined to enjoy extremely graphic gore, Slashers, and human suffering.
These fans also tend to enjoy Found Footage, supernatural, and Psychological films.

These cool and artsy horror fans seek out obscure, underground, or unconventional horror films.
Favorites include House of 1000 Corpses (2003), The Wicker Man (), and Suspiria (1977).
These visual fans really appreciate a masterfully crafted aesthetic or world building.
These fans tend to dislike comedies, Slashers, and blockbusters.

These horror fans just like to have a good time, they enjoy horror with a dose of humour, blending light scares with laughs.
Favourites include Shaun of the Dead (2004), Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010), and Evil Dead II (1987).
These fans tend to enjoy over-the-top gore, Slashers, and maybe even a good horror romance.
Comfort watchers, these fans are most likely to re-watch their favourite films over an over, knowing every line off by heart, and eagerly anticipating beloved kills.

Love creature features, kaiju monsters, aliens, zombies, and all manner of supernatural horror.
Favourites include Godzilla (1954), The Thing (1982), and An American Werewolf in London (1981).
These fans love anything Fantasy, regardless of subgenre, if you can dream it, they will watch it.
Bringing imagination to life through digital and practical effects gives these fans a thrill; especially supernatural transformations, surreal creatures and alien invasions, and mega monsters destroying cities.

Prefer immersive, shaky-cam horror that feels real and raw.
Favourites include The Blair Witch Project (1999), Paranormal Activity (2007), and REC (2007).
These fans enjoy the puzzle-like storytelling, the intimacy of the first-person perspective, and the suspension of disbelief that comes from blurring the line between fiction and reality.
This style of filming, Found Footage, has been applied to many subgenres, and it's fans aren't picky as long as it terrifies them.

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These trendy horror fans are cooler than you and they need you to know that they are; they are always on the lookout for the next fresh and innovative horror film.
These fans get supreme satisfaction from being among the first to see a new film at a festival and to post their review, with total disregard for the production or audience.
Favourites (for now) include The Witch (2015), It Follows (2014), and Midsommar (2019).
These fans often see films through "rose coloured glasses", being quick to label a film as a masterpiece and then never re-watching it.

These fans savour horror, they want to keep it a special yearly experience, binge watching horror films during spooky season is a sacred tradition for them.
Spooktober watchers revisit family-friendly classics from their childhood, love films that take place on Halloween, and re-watch all their favourites yearly while rotating in new films from the past year.
Favourites include Hocus Pocus (1993), Trick 'r Treat (2007), and Scream (1996).
Although these fans don't limit themselves to a single genre, they tend to dislike extreme gore and human suffering, and prefer films with dash of spookiness and Halloween holiday magic.