YouTube channel

Film Riot

Art, crafts, magic and photography

Film Riot has 2,260,000 subscribers and 246,467,694 views in all, as of October 24, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 142,412 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "Making Horror With Practical Filmmaking Tricks", with 45,726 views. By subscribers it is No. 1,256 of the 5,387 channels on Trari, and No. 29 of 104 in Art, crafts, magic and photography.

The numbers today

subscribers

2,260,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

246,467,694

▲ 142,412 in the last 7 days

views a day (current pace)

12,659

on a typical day: 17,817

Videos on the channel

1,290

2 uploaded in the last 30 days

Last upload

8 days ago

October 16, 2026

Views per subscriber

109

a new long video usually gets 61,880 views
a new short video usually gets 13,685 views

Next milestone

3,000,000 subscribers

740,000 subscribers to go

What happened lately

This week on the channel +139K views this week

Doug Jones narrates Film Riot's practical-effects ghost story

Ryan Connolly pairs Last Light with a breakdown of DIY lighting, creature hands and a demanding VFX shot.

Channel: Film Riot · Story of October 18, 2026

This week on the channel

Classic-film trickery, Part 15, keeps Film Riot's lights on

Nothing new went up, and a month-old dive into how old movies faked the impossible has passed 245,000 views.

Channel: Film Riot · Story of September 30, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

Making Horror With Practical Filmmaking Tricks

Video published: October 16, 2026
Video views so far: 45,726
Video views, pace per day: 994
Views on its first day: 22,768

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Position on Trari and in the category

	Among all channels on Trari	In the category Art, crafts, magic and photography
By subscribers	1,256 of 5,387	29 of 104
By views gained this week	4,471 of 5,295	81 of 103

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category: 0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscribers in the category Art, crafts, magic and photography

35,700,000

26,000,000

18,200,000

12,500,000

12,400,000

10,900,000

10,900,000

10,800,000

10,600,000

8,130,000

6,660,000

6,420,000

5,800,000

5,670,000

2,260,000

Views gained this week in the category Art, crafts, magic and photography

181,759,971

123,262,021

51,249,795

43,981,728

42,440,078

37,290,239

35,790,026

32,740,989

30,568,875

23,362,217

19,524,466

15,561,392

13,119,510

10,959,100

142,412

Subscribers, last 30 days

September 26, 2026: 2,260,000 subscribers → October 24, 2026: 2,260,000 subscribers (no significant change in the last month)

Total views, last 30 days

September 26, 2026: 245,989,553 views → October 24, 2026: 246,467,694 views · average: 17,076 views a day

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
Making Horror With Practical Filmmaking Tricks	October 16, 2026	12:08	45,726	994	22,768	1,115	75
Last Light \| A Halloween Short Film (Narrated by Doug Jones)	October 13, 2026	3:54	24,711	389	14,130	851	106
We Made a Dragon	September 10, 2026	1:54 short	13,724	17	-	626	19
The Secret to Realistic VFX	September 3, 2026	10:45	68,801	57	-	1,429	104
Amazing Effects in Classic Films - How Did They Pull It Off…	August 27, 2026	16:03	279,297	88	-	3,000	128
Zero Gravity Space Effect	August 13, 2026	11:48	54,959	42	-	3,239	179
How to Film a Scene 101: Camera Settings to Coverage	July 30, 2026	14:35	43,228	84	-	2,183	90
Amazing Effects in Classic Films - How Did They Pull It Off…	July 15, 2026	17:20	192,230	42	-	3,931	181
What's the Point of Shooting Anamorphic?	July 7, 2026	11:42	158,625	392	-	4,339	197
The Only Physical Editing Tool I Use	June 19, 2026	1:18 short	13,442	15	-	577	20
Amazing Effects in Classic Films - How Did They Pull It Off…	June 11, 2026	14:42	91,266	42	-	2,833	131
Why Your Edits Take So Long	June 9, 2026	9:38	19,595	16	-	971	72
Cinematography 101: Where You Place the Camera Matters	June 4, 2026	10:51	29,461	48	-	1,468	53
How they sunk the Titanic: Amazing Effects	April 20, 2026	1:01 short	13,685	11	-	316	6
Amazing Effects in Classic Films - How Did They Pull It Off…	April 16, 2026	16:38	83,869	18	-	2,781	132

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views: 26.2 in the category: 19.0
comments per 1,000 views: 1.3 in the category: 0.3
short vs long: 3 short (up to 3 minutes), 12 long
average views per short video: 13,617
average views per long video: 90,980

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Film Riot - Learn FX Secrets From Exorcist and "From Hell"	November 5, 2009	7:28	25,317,442
$10 DIY Camera Slider!	February 2, 2012	9:40	3,852,875
Ghost House (A Horror Movie in Real Life)	October 19, 2016	6:20	3,190,192
Quicksilver Super Speed Effect!	July 3, 2014	11:34	3,027,932
BALLiSTIC - (a Sci-Fi \| Action short film)	June 27, 2018	17:35	2,944,453

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
1 Minute Nikon Z6III Review	April 28, 2025	1:14	33,485
Final Cut Pro for the iPad	May 24, 2023	1:00	32,677
Original Star Wars VFX with Miniatures	April 21, 2025	1:38	25,771
Homemade Arm Cannon from Guardians of the Galaxy GOES WRONG!	June 2, 2023	0:57	16,837
Amazing Effects in Classic Films - Safety Last (1923)	March 19, 2025	0:55	16,243

Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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