Zara Butterworth is a student who was doing research on horror audience, she produced a slide-share on what she has discovered, here is what I learnt from her slide share:
- Largest group of cinema goers are people between the ages of 15-24.
- In her opinion males see horror/action more than females whereas woman typically prefer watching genres such as comedy & romance.
- However recent figures show that females watching horror has exceeded male viewers for the first time.
- Not only are woman conventionally less likely to visit cinema but statistics show that vast majority of films within the genre are directed/written/produced by men.
Molly's A2 media blog: Target Audience of Horror films
Accessed date: 26/01/2015, Molly Rose Brown, http://enorfbrownm.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/target-audience-of-horrorfilms-any-form.html
Molly is also another student who has done some primary research on the target audience on horror films. Here are some of the things that I learnt from it:
- The rating and audience on a horror film depends on what the horror film actually contains,
- Teenage males would be more likely to watch horror films as the simple stereotype of males being the more 'harder to scare' gender whereas females are supposedly easier to scare and quite feminine.
The Guardian: Everything but the ghoul Access date: 26/1/2015, The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/apr/06/2
From this article I have learnt
- There are very few female directors of any genre. I think the type of horror films women tend to like are perhaps more interesting, more psychological
- Psychologists have long believed that our attraction to horror films is that they allow us to explore and experiment with fears and emotions. But there are suggestions that women respond to fear in a way that men don't. "fear can facilitate sexual responsiveness in women, whereas it inhibits in men" - Dr Glenn Wilson
Pacific + Standard- The psychology of a horror movie fan
What I learnt from this article is that: Horror films that end un happily should then produce heightened dysphoria
From this article I have learnt
- There are very few female directors of any genre. I think the type of horror films women tend to like are perhaps more interesting, more psychological
- Psychologists have long believed that our attraction to horror films is that they allow us to explore and experiment with fears and emotions. But there are suggestions that women respond to fear in a way that men don't. "fear can facilitate sexual responsiveness in women, whereas it inhibits in men" - Dr Glenn Wilson
Pacific + Standard- The psychology of a horror movie fan
What I learnt from this article is that: Horror films that end un happily should then produce heightened dysphoria
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Conclusion:
From all the articles I have read and all the self research other students did I have learnt that the audience rating all depends on what the film involves.
Conclusion:
From all the articles I have read and all the self research other students did I have learnt that the audience rating all depends on what the film involves.
