TikTok is speaking about their favourite horror films, nevertheless it has virtually nothing to do with precise horror movies.
The newest development usually focuses on popular culture moments — issues in films, TV reveals, or in any other case — that the creator both did not like or discovered to be unsettling or unhappy. So the concept is to publish one thing that was particularly horrific (or horrifically unhappy) to you whereas calling it your favourite horror film. Usually talking, people select unhappy moments in films and TV and set it to Gracie Abrams’ “I Love You, I am Sorry.”
It is throughout TikTok proper now.
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Like numerous different traits — taking a look at you, Spotify Wrapped — the favourite horror film posts are a little bit of an train in displaying style. The thought is to publish one thing folks love, or one thing sufficiently cool or, in different instances, one thing nostalgic, to be able to elicit a response. So you will get broad moments from Marvel or Disney films, in addition to scenes from HBO’s Ladies. The thought is to publish one thing sufficiently unhappy that both everybody is aware of or a selected group of individuals actually loves. It is the identical concept as both having Beyoncé atop your Wrapped or a cult favourite band (here’s to you, The Hold Steady).
So your TikTok FYP probably has clips from big films and esoteric classics, all labeled as horror films. What your FYP does not have, for probably the most half, are any precise horror films — at the least till the subsequent time Megan Is Missing goes viral once more.
