Twelve kinds of taste
Which one are you?
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
Rate five things you know, from any shelf. Your archetype shows up in about a minute, and gets sharper with every log.
@gaz_horror · 85 logs · 8 followers · 10 following
Provocateur · bleak · demanding · open
Demo account. Horror first, horror last. Will defend The Thing to the death, which is the point.
Work that unsettles: bleak, open, demanding. They trust discomfort more than reassurance and rate the thing that made they argue.
Where it goes wrong: Difficulty is not depth. Sometimes the cold thing is just cold, and you rated it up for the chill.
The charts and numbers behind this are under Taste.
The five this Bud would hand you first.
What the sentences on the overview are made of.
Among 649 curators with a profile.
How far this Bud leans on each of the fourteen dimensions compared with everyone else, strongest first.
This month they were chasing intensity and settling in for long things. From 40 logs in the last thirty days.
Year in review:2026
Empty. Add things from their pages.
Where I send people who say they want something bleak.
7 films that are bleak in the best way.
The bleak ones I would hand you first.
The ones that got under the skin and stayed.
Profile built from 85 rated titles.
Solid, and in places better than solid. Heavy going, and it is meant to be. Worth your time.
I liked Hell is Us a lot more than I expected to. Heavy going, and it is meant to be. Not perfect, but it stays with you.
Fréwaka is the real thing. Unhurried, and the unhurriedness is the point. One for the shelf of things I press on people.
Mostly about the story.
Aaron Moorhead at the top of their game with The Endless. Heavy going, and it is meant to be. Believe the hype on this one.
Mostly about the craft.
Guillermo del Toro at the top of their game with Pan's Labyrinth. Meticulously made; every detail is placed with care. It leaves room for you, and I love that. This one is going to stay with me.
Mostly about the craft.
Look Outside got under my skin. Heavy going, and it is meant to be.
One of the best things I have read this year. The dread settles in early and never lifts. Raw in a way that is hard to shake.
Mostly about the story, how it felt.
Glad I finally watched The Carpenter's Son. Unsparing in a way that feels honest. Twist after twist, and they all hold up.
Mostly about the story.
A procedural that turns into a sermon and somehow gets better for it. That box.
Mostly about the story, comfort.
The Thing is the real thing. Not a joke in sight, and it does not need one. Classical in shape, and every beat is where it should be.
Mostly about the story, memory.
Rating key: ★★★★★ loved, ★★½ mixed.
Further out is a stronger lean than other Buds.
Each spoke is one dimension; further out means a stronger lean that way than other Buds. A big shape is a strong, unusual taste; a small one is close to the middle of everyone.
One row a medium, half a star a bar; the dashed line is the mean. Kinder to books than films? It shows here.
One bar per star rating, one row per medium. Where the bars pile up is your habit; the dashed line is your average for that medium.
The two directions taste varies most along. Archetypes cluster; Gaz is ringed, and people they follow are outlined.
Every Bud, placed so that people with similar leans sit near each other. The two axes are the directions taste varies most along, found from all profiles. Neighbors are worth a look.
Above the line, kinder than the crowd; below it, harsher.
Each dot is a title: your stars up, the audience's average across. Dots above the line are where you were kinder than the crowd, below it harsher. A wide spread means you do not follow consensus.
Needs ratings across at least two years, with three or more in each.
Year by year, on the four strongest dimensions.
One line per dimension, one point per year: the average character of what you loved that year. A line that climbs means your favorites moved toward that pole.
