Thursday, 21 February 2013

Horror genre research


The aim of a horror genre film is to develop a sense of fear with the audience in order to alarm panic and disorientate them. Horror films are one of the biggest film genres because of the wide variety of ideas that can be used. Common horror film ideas are mainly based on people’s fears, supernatural or the paranormal plus gore and blood are main common factors in horror films.

In 2010 the horror genre was ranking 8th gross box office genre with comedy taking first place with sex in the city 2. Horror came 8th with paranormal 2, which had been released that year. In total the horror genre made £54.1 million 2011 with 31 site releases and an average of £11,624 per site within the horror genre leaving it about halfway up the genre table.in comparison the horror genre had only made up for nearly 6% of all the that year releases compared to nearly 28% for Drama releases.

In 2011, the Horror genre had dropped to 11th place in the best performing genre. The genre released 32 films, which is 1 more than the previous year. Two of the top three genres are the same from 2010 however they made more money in comparison to the horror genre which made one more film then previous and made nearly £24million less at the box office then the previous year. The Horror genre made fewer releases than the top 2 genres however two of the genres above it both released just 5 films and still managed to rank above the horror genre. The Horror Genre had only made up 5.7% of all releases in 2011 and made up of 3.3% of the total box office for that year.

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