By Jaiden Johnson

  Many people love horror movies, which are still pretty popular today. My way of ranking horror movies is the story, affect/impact, and if the movie was worth it. Let’s use an example. We are going to rank The Black Phone. This 1 hour and 42 min minute movie contains a boy named Finney Shaw, a 13-year-old whom a killer kidnaps. This story is unoriginal, but the director Scott Derrickson made it a lot better.

  Now to the impact. The real-life inspiration behind this movie was that this movie was based-off on real life. The Black Phone does explain childhood trauma in this movie, but Derrickson did not want to make it super violent; “I think you have to have a sensitivity of what an audience can tolerate without really being turned off or turning on the film itself.” Derrickson says. He wants to confront people about the real horrors he has faced.

Was The Black Phone worth it? When I say this, I mean was it worth the cost of the tickets or rent? I found some thoughts on Reddit, and the user sebasour says “I think it was a movie where the idea was a little better than the execution, but it still managed to remain tense for its runtime and was a pretty well-acted movie. It’s a movie I’ll probably forget about pretty quickly, but I enjoyed it.” Looks like some people think it’s pretty good, but not a Jordan Peele or Sam Raimi-type movie.

  While I was scrolling through the internet, I finally found a movie that made people ACTUALLY shake in fear. This movie is called Terrifier 2. This movie was extremely gross and insanely disgusting, I made people puke and even pass out due to the gore in the movie. This impact/effect rating on people is definitely a 10/10. The story of Terrifier 2 is when a clown is resurrected by an evil entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County to terrify a girl and her younger brother. Personally, I would give this story a 7/10, since this is a movie idea a lot of directors use, but it is pretty different since Art is resurrected by an evil entity.

  Finally, is Terrifier 2 worth it? I would say no. I don’t want to take the risk of  shaking in fear, throwing up, or even passing out. So, the worth would be a 6/10 for me. This is why I would rank this movie one of the scariest movies of all time.