Lights down, armrest gripped, teeth clenched - just an average evening at the cinema for a horror film fan.
The genre is having a great year in 2025, with the top three examples - Sinners, Final Destination: Bloodlines and 28 Years Later - taking a total of £41.3m ($55.6m) in the UK.
That's compared with £39.5m ($53m) for the nine biggest horrors released throughout last year, according to Box Office Mojo.
In North America, scary movies have accounted for 17% of ticket purchases this year - up from 11% in 2024 and 4% a decade ago, according to a report from the Reuters news agency.
"Right now it feels like we're in the renaissance of horror," Chase Sui Wonders, one of the stars of I Know What You Did Last Summer (IKWYDLS), tells BBC Newsbeat.
