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All Things Horror: From Movies & TV to Books & Games. R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games. Founded 2008 · 3.5M members

3.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 37.3K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
3.5Mmembers
37.3Kbest post
8.3Kmost comments
1.2Kposts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

51% 27% 15%
Text 51% Question 27% Link 15% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 332 Recommend 114 Movie Review 80 Movie Help 64 Horror News 47 Spoiler Alert 21 Hidden Gem 16 Upcoming Movies 12 Movie Trailer 11 Horror Gaming 8

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Jeffrey Dahmer is NOT a horror icon

↑ 37.3K 💬 2.6K text 2022

Tony Todd Dies: ‘Candyman’ Star Whose Hundreds Of Credits Include ‘The Crow’ & ‘Platoon’ Was 69

↑ 17.8K 💬 1.1K link 2024

What is hands down the scariest movie you have ever seen?

↑ 17.4K 💬 8.3K question 2021

Simon Pegg Says People Don’t ‘F*cking Need’ ‘Shaun of the Dead 2:’ ‘Move On’

↑ 15.5K 💬 979 link 2023

Could the adults in ‘a quiet place’ just have used protection or just idk, refrained from fcking for a while?

↑ 14.6K 💬 1.5K question 2025

A24 has sold out to AI

↑ 13.6K 💬 1.8K link 2026

Actor Sam Neill dies age 78

↑ 13.1K 💬 586 link 2026

The new horror show “Them” is another gross example of Hollywood mistaking exploitation for empowerment (hardcore rant incoming)

↑ 12.8K 💬 1.8K text 2021

Warning: 'Nefarious' is marketed as horror, but it's just a Christian movie

↑ 12.7K 💬 1.4K link 2023

It's October, brace yourselves for the Normies

↑ 12.5K 💬 954 text 2021

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/horror, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/horror?
r/horror ("All Things Horror: From Movies & TV to Books & Games") describes itself this way: R/HORROR, known as Dreadit by our subscribers is the premier horror entertainment community on Reddit. For more than a decade /R/HORROR has been reddit.com's gateway to all things Horror: from movies & TV, to books & games. It was founded in 2008 and has 3.5M members.
How many members does r/horror have?
r/horror has about 3.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 37.3K upvotes, which is 11 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/horror?
"Jeffrey Dahmer is NOT a horror icon" reached 37.3K upvotes and 2.6K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/horror.
What subreddits are similar to r/horror?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/ukraine, r/LosAngeles, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/okbuddycinephile, r/blackcats, r/awfuleverything.
What kind of posts do best on r/horror?
Of the posts we hold, 51% are text posts and 27% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/horror?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 12:00 UTC (5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (4.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/horror?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/horror has 10.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 314 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/horror, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.