Loved it.

Horror has a problem no other genre has. The films fans love most are not always the ones that frightened them, and the ones that frightened them are not always the ones they would watch again. Gasper ranks on one axis, fear, and it needs a way to say the other thing without pretending it is a score. That is the heart.

What it is

The heart is one bit. A film is loved or it is not. Tap it and the film joins your loved films on your profile, and you are counted in the percentage who loved it on the film's page. Tap it again and it comes off. There is no number, no half-heart, no order among the films you hearted, and nothing you did in the head-to-heads changes when you do it.

That is on purpose. The scare score is a position in your ranked list, built from "Which was scarier?" comparisons, and it answers exactly one question. The heart answers a different one, and it would be a mistake to stack them. Just because you did not find a film scary does not mean it was not good, and saying otherwise is a disservice to the Scary Movie franchise.

Where you tap it

The heart turns up in three places, and it is the same heart in all of them.

On the result screen. When the comparisons finish and the film is added to your rankings, the scare score appears with its place in your list, something like #10 of 49, and a heart card sits under it: "Loved this?" Tap it there if you already know, and it reads "Loved it", "With your loved films".

In the details card. While you are ranking, the "Anything to remember?" step takes a review, who you watched with, tags and Stealth mode. The "Loved this?" heart is there too, and whatever you picked arrives pre-set at the result screen, where you can still change your mind.

From the film's page, any time. Once a film is ranked, the heart replaces the watchlist button in the action bar, because you no longer need to remember to watch it. A film you hearted years ago can be un-hearted tonight, and a film you ranked cold can earn its heart after a rewatch.

Where it shows up

Your profile's Rankings tab shows "All rankings" by default, and a filter switches it to "Loved" or "Recently ranked". Loved shows your rankings cut down to the films you hearted, under the heading "Loved films", so a 2.1 and a 9.4 can sit together without either looking out of place.

On every film page, the percentage who loved it sits beside the Community Scare. The two figures answer different questions, and the gap between them is where the interesting films live. A modest Community Scare with a high loved figure is the signature of a cult favorite. A high Community Scare with a low loved figure is a film that works and is no fun at all. Both are useful to know before you press play.

Your favorite film also gets its own slide in Bloodwork, "YOUR FAVORITE FILM", drawn from the films you hearted.

Why a non-scary favorite belongs here

Rank Shaun of the Dead (2004) honestly and it will land low on your scare score, because it is not trying to scare anyone. Without the heart, that low number would be the only thing your profile said about a film you have seen eleven times. With it, the profile says both things: it did not scare me, and I love it. Evil Dead II (1987), Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010), most of the giallo cycle and a lot of slow, beautiful dread live in the same place.

The reverse case matters as much. A film can sit at the top of your list and not get a heart. It worked on you and you never want to see it again. Nothing about the head-to-heads asked you to enjoy it, and nothing about the heart asks you to have been scared.

What it is not

It is not a ranked list. There is no "Which did you love more?" and there never will be. The Loved filter is the films you hearted, and it is not a ranking of love.

It is not a score, and it does not feed one. Hearting a film does not move its scare score, does not change the Community Scare, and plays no part in your Scare Tolerance, which compares scare scores alone. The leaderboards rank films by Community Scare, not by hearts.

It is not the scare verdict. The first step of ranking asks how scary the film was: Terrifying, Some scares or Barely flinched. That is a sorting step that decides where the comparisons look. The heart is a flag on the film and nothing more.

And it is not a review. The review on your rank is where the sentence goes, and tags like Rewatchable and Atmospheric are there to say why. The heart only says that you would watch it again. The glossary entry on Loved has the one-paragraph version, and the help answer to loving a film that is not scary is two words long: heart it.