If you found a professional critic that you understand that might be. Otherwise with a random critic's assessment I don't know more than an aggregated audience

If you found a professional critic that you understand that might be. Otherwise with a random critic's assessment I don't know more than an aggregated audience score. I guess the equivalent would be a weighted score preferring other users that have rated movies you both watched similar to you, as some sites do (such as moviepilot.de). As the OP shows, horror movies are not for everybody and few professional critics seem to like them. If I like them, I think it's hard reading a reviewer's opinion who does not like them helps me finding out whether I like the newest horror flic. They most probably will not write about what a typical genre movie make good, but why they don't like time in general. An extreme example is https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/1/8687867/rock-band-4-preview https://www.polygon.com/2015/6/1/8687867/rock-band-4-preview On the other side, a critic who likes movies such as https://youtu.be/uNg13Ju5HN8 https://youtu.be/uNg13Ju5HN8 is a sure sign for me to stay away from it ;-)