Lists, with friends.

Your rankings are an argument you have with yourself. A list is an argument you have with everyone else. Lists are Gasper's curated collections: films grouped by whatever logic you like, built alone or with friends, saved from other members, and shared with a link.

What a list is

A list has a name, a description, a cover and films. It lives in your Lists tab and on your profile. Unlike your rankings, which Gasper orders for you from head-to-heads, a list is ordered by you, for a reason you choose. Turn on "Ranked" when you make it and the films are numbered in a best-to-worst order; leave it off and the list is a set. A list says what you would recommend, or what you are planning, or what belongs together.

Featured lists are a small set Gasper highlights on the "Featured lists" shelf in Discover, useful when you want a starting point and do not yet follow anyone whose taste you trust.

Collaborating

Open "Collaborators" on a list, tap "Invite", and the list becomes shared: anyone on it can add films. You can only invite people you follow. This is the right tool for a marathon lineup, a group's October schedule, or a running record of what a film club has actually watched. The horror marathon guide is built around one.

A collaborative list beats a group chat for this because it holds. The chat scrolls away; the list stays, and each film on it links to its page, with the Community Scare, the trailer, where to watch it and the Rank button a tap away. When the night comes, everyone ranks from the same list and the feed fills with the results.

Saving, sharing, keeping private

Save any other member's list and it stays in a "Saved" section of your Lists tab. Browsing saved lists from people who scare like you is one of the better discovery methods on the app, and a saved list from someone whose Scare Tolerance matches yours is close to a guarantee.

"Share list" sends a link. It is the simplest way to answer "what should I watch?" with something better than a text message, and the link carries the whole list, in your order, with your reasons.

Turn on "Private" and only you can see the list. Private lists are for the ones that are not ready, or not for anyone else: the films you are working up the nerve for, the ones you are saving for a particular person, the ones you are embarrassed to admit you have not seen.

Ideas for lists

Gateway horror for a friend who scares easily, ordered gently, with your own scare scores as the guide. Films you are hunting for, kept private until you have found them. A director's work in order, which is how you notice that David Cronenberg's body horror of the 1970s and 1980s turns inward later. One subgenre, done properly: a cults list that goes past the obvious three. A decade. A country. Films set entirely in one house.

The best lists have a rule. "Scary films where nothing supernatural happens" is a better list than "my favorites", and it will get saved more. A rule gives the list an argument, and an argument is what makes someone else want to add to it or fight it.

What it does not do

A list does not rank anything. Adding a film to a list does not log it, does not give it a scare score and does not change your rankings. To rank a film from a list, open it and tap Rank; the head-to-head ranking flow runs as usual.

A list does not change its films' scores either. Putting a film at the top of "Scariest I have seen" is a statement, not an input; the Community Scare is built from head-to-heads only.

A list is never posted to the feed. It lives on your profile, in Discover if it is featured, and wherever you send the link.

Lists cannot be imported from other services. Build them here, one film at a time, which in practice is faster than it sounds.

And lists, like every post, comment and profile, can be reported if they break the rules, and reports are reviewed within 24 hours. The help entry on what lists are is the short version.