Horror film

Quality:

Horror film - film genre. Article “Horror film” in English Wikipedia has 78.8 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 204 references and 37 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 19.7 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 6226^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

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The 3465^th most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5676^th most popular in all topics.

The 4504^th most popular in AI.

In June 2025 the article “Horror film” was edited by 4 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Horror film”, its content was written by 1279 registered users of English Wikipedia (3465^th place) and edited by 3719 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (4504^th place).

The article is cited 8924 times in English Wikipedia (2239^th place) and cited 63656 times in all languages (2559^th place).

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #207 in February 2001
• Global: #207 in February 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #972 in October 2008
• Global: #1570 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, 2025 (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	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		86.6667
5	English (en) Horror film		78.8063
6	Catalan (ca) Cinema de terror		71.2993
7	German (de) Horrorfilm		58.5058
8	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		48.5457
9	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		45.2095
10	Armenian (hy) Սարսափ ֆիլմ		41.5186

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

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Horror film		18 130 704
2	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		4 526 383
3	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		2 717 466
4	French (fr) Film d'horreur		2 452 298
5	German (de) Horrorfilm		2 254 778
6	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		1 945 093
7	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		1 557 905
8	Persian (fa) فیلم ترسناک		598 287
9	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		514 268
10	Finnish (fi) Kauhuelokuva		364 762

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		50 892
2	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		9 529
3	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		4 969
4	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		4 964
5	French (fr) Film d'horreur		3 327
6	German (de) Horrorfilm		3 237
7	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		2 640
8	Simple English (simple) Horror movie		1 859
9	Chinese (zh) 恐怖電影		1 664
10	Persian (fa) فیلم ترسناک		1 464

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		1 279
2	German (de) Horrorfilm		357
3	French (fr) Film d'horreur		240
4	Russian (ru) Фильм ужасов		220
5	Spanish (es) Cine de terror		217
6	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		179
7	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		119
8	Dutch (nl) Horrorfilm		105
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		4
2	Swedish (sv) Skräckfilm		2
3	Catalan (ca) Cinema de terror		1
4	German (de) Horrorfilm		1
5	Esperanto (eo) Horora filmo		1
6	Croatian (hr) Horor film		1
7	Italian (it) Cinema dell'orrore		1
8	Japanese (ja) ホラー映画		1
9	Dutch (nl) Horrorfilm		1
10	Arabic (ar) فيلم رعب		0

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

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