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Jordan Peele’s Get Out has emerged as the UK’s most popular movie to watch at Halloween. That is according to new research that also saw Wes Craven’s Scream and horror classics The Exorcist and The Shining make the top 10.
Research conducted by online gaming site CasinoGrounds looked at a combination of Google search data, Wikipedia page views and internet article count to determine what horror films UK audiences were watching at Halloween in 2021.
Horror gem Get Out, which was ranked by Sight & Sound as the film of the year in 2017, stood out amongst recent hits like It and The Conjuring and classics like William Friedkin’s The Exorcist.
The research found Get Out was receiving around 7,700 searches a month alongside an impressive audience rating on IMDB of 7.7. On Rotten Tomatoes the film is almost universally praised with a “Fresh” rating of 98% based on 397 critic reviews.
The film’s commercial and critical success was matched by industry accolades when awards’ season arrived. Peele was presented with the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 90th Academy Awards while enjoying nominations in several other categories including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor.
The UK’s Favourite Halloween Films |
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| Film | Average Monthly Google Searches | IMDB Score | Wiki Page Views | Articles written in the last year | Index Score |
| Get Out | 7700 | 7.7 | 145004 | 372 | 48 |
| Scream | 6659 | 7.3 | 111758 | 582 | 56 |
| The Shining | 1200 | 8.4 | 152758 | 580 | 62 |
| It (2017) | 24600 | 7.3 | 127662 | 220 | 63 |
| Beetlejuice | 2000 | 7.5 | 194891 | 215 | 84 |
| Saw | 14500 | 7.6 | 75427 | 111 | 100 |
| The Exorcist | 750 | 8.0 | 108611 | 465 | 102 |
| Psycho | 2910 | 8.5 | 211111 | 409 | 105 |
| The Conjuring | 800 | 7.5 | 172184 | 277 | 108 |
| Coraline | 3950 | 7.7 | 73040 | 125 | 114 |
Slasher horror Scream, released in 1996, is the UK’s second most popular film to watch this Halloween. 582 articles have been written about the film in the last year, although it has one of the lower IMDB ratings in the list, with 7.3. The fifth instalment of the Scream series, featuring the first film’s stars Neve Campbell and Courteney Cox, is scheduled for a January 2022 release, potentially boosting its popularity on the internet.
The UK’s third favourite Halloween film to watch this season is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Released in 1980, the classic horror flick has an IMDB rating of 8.4 and approximately 152,758 Wikipedia page views a month.
Other classic horror films also made the top 10 list, including Psycho and The Exorcist. Despite being released in 1960 – making it the oldest film appearing on the list – Psycho has an IMDB score of 8.5, which is the highest of the top 10. Similarly, The Exorcist has an IMDB rating of 8.0, demonstrating how older horror films have stood the test of time with audiences.
The fourth most popular Halloween film amongst Brits is the 2017 box office hit It. Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, the film has approximately 24,600 monthly Google searches and an IMDB score of 7.3. The film set numerous box office records and took in more than $701 million worldwide, making it the highest grossing film on the list.
Source: CasinoGrounds
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