As of October 2022, around 55 percent of adults surveyed in the United States said they liked or loved psychological horror films. The same share of interviewees reported a fondness for comedic horror movies. Meanwhile, 54 percent of respondents reported disliking or hating horror films characterized by gore, whereas 53 percent expressed aversion to slasher movies — films where a killer stalks and tries to murder other characters. According to another study conducted around that same time, "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" were the
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