Loved: the heart that marks a film you adore
Lovednoun
Loved is the heart you give a film on Gasper, marking it as loved on your profile regardless of its scare score.
Loved is the heart. Tap it on any film you adore and the film is marked as loved on your profile, no matter how scary it scored. It is one bit, loved or not, and it is the one part of Gasper that is not a ranking.
Why it exists
Horror fans love films that did not scare them and were not, by any sober measure, good. That is not a failure of taste; it is most of what fandom is. A ranking app without a way to say "I know, and I love it anyway" would end up punishing exactly the films people rewatch most. As Gasper's help pages put it, pretending a film you adore was also scary would be a disservice to the Scary Movie franchise.
So the heart sits apart from the number. The scare score says how scary. Loved says you would watch it again on a Tuesday.
How it differs from the scare verdict
The Rank flow starts with "How scary was it?": Terrifying, Some scares or Barely flinched. That is a ranking step. It decides which of your rankings the film is compared against in the head-to-heads and the range it can land in. The heart is different. It is a flag on the film, not a step in placing it, and it carries no number. You can say a film barely made you flinch, watch it land near the bottom of your list, and still heart it.
The usual case: a horror comedy or a cheesy favorite. Evil Dead II (1987) scares almost nobody in 2026, and almost everybody who has seen it loves it.
In Gasper
Your loved films are on your profile: the Rankings tab can show "All rankings", "Loved" or "Recently ranked", and the Loved view is headed "Loved films". You tap the heart on the result screen after ranking ("Loved this?", then "Loved it"), in the details card, or any time from a film's page, where it replaces the watchlist button once the film is ranked. On every film page, the percentage who loved it appears next to the Community Scare, so a film can show a modest average scare and a high loved figure at the same time, which tells you something true about it. Hearts follow the visibility of your account: followers see your loved films, and a private account needs follower approval. Hearting a film does not post to the feed on its own and does not affect your streak; only ranking does.
Questions people ask
Does hearting a film change its score?
No. The heart is independent of the scare score. It only marks the film as loved and counts toward the percentage who loved it on the film page.
Can I love a film I said barely scared me?
Yes. The scare verdict and the heart are separate. People love films that did not scare them all the time.
Where do Loved films show up?
Under the Loved filter of your profile's Rankings tab, as the percentage who loved it on each film page, and as the favorite film slide in your Bloodwork.
Go deeper
- FeatureLoved it heartOne tap that marks a film as loved, apart from its scare score. For films you adore, scary or not.
- GuideBuilding Your Horror Rankings: Ranking a Backlog ThoughtfullyHow to rank a lifetime of horror into one honest list: where to start, how to stay consistent, when to revisit, and what tags and the Loved it heart are for
Related terms
- Head-to-headA head-to-head is a two-film question on Gasper, which was scarier, whose answers place a film in your rankings.
- Scare scoreA scare score is Gasper's measure out of 10 of how scary a film was to you, set by head-to-head comparisons rather than a number you type.
- Your rankingsYour rankings are the ordered list of every horror film you have ranked on Gasper, built from head-to-heads rather than typed scores.
- BloodworkBloodwork is Gasper's tap-through story of everything you have ranked: tolerance, scariest watch, hours, dominant fear, streak, Hottest Take, Deepest Cut and fear twin.
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