Horror film

Quality:

Horror film - film genre. Article “Horror film” in English Wikipedia has 88.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 203 references and 38 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 9.81 points.

This article has the best quality in Vietnamese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 5824^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3502^nd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5517^th most popular in all topics.

The 4463^rd most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Horror film” was edited by 5 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 18 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Horror film”, its content was written by 1305 registered users of English Wikipedia (3502^nd place) and edited by 3785 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4463^rd place).

The article is cited 9269 times in English Wikipedia (2208^th place) and cited 68734 times in all languages (2471^st place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #229 in February 2001
• Global: #229 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #779 in October 2008
• Global: #1350 in October 2008

There are 50 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Vietnamese (vi) Phim kinh dị		100
2	Finnish (fi) Kauhuelokuva		100
3	French (fr) Film d'horreur		94.251
4	English (en) Horror film		88.3241
5	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		86.6667
6	Catalan (ca) Cinema de terror		67.8176
7	German (de) Horrorfilm		57.3772
8	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		51.4909
9	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		48.7641
10	Estonian (et) Õudusfilm		46.9629

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horror film		19 771 238
2	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		4 917 944
3	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		2 760 338
4	French (fr) Film d'horreur		2 500 294
5	German (de) Horrorfilm		2 302 480
6	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		1 989 928
7	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		1 592 290
8	Persian (fa) فیلم ترسناک		620 614
9	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		531 969
10	Finnish (fi) Kauhuelokuva		369 280

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horror film		44 124
2	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		6 496
3	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		3 965
4	French (fr) Film d'horreur		3 152
5	German (de) Horrorfilm		2 769
6	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		2 608
7	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		2 509
8	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		1 604
9	Persian (fa) فیلم ترسناک		1 316
10	Portuguese (pt) Filme de terror		731

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Horror film		1 305
2	German (de) Horrorfilm		366
3	French (fr) Film d'horreur		242
4	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		225
5	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		224
6	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		179
7	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		123
8	Dutch (nl) Horrorfilm		106
9	Hebrew (he) סרט אימה		101
10	Finnish (fi) Kauhuelokuva		93

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Horror film		5
2	Korean (ko) 공포 영화		3
3	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		2
4	Catalan (ca) Cinema de terror		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Horora filmo		1
6	Basque (eu) Beldurrezko zinema		1
7	Hebrew (he) סרט אימה		1
8	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		1
9	Serbian (sr) Хорор филм		1
10	Thai (th) ภาพยนตร์สยองขวัญ		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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