Audience

Audience
Often research on audience is based on the response the film gets by the audience. They can see how popular a film is by the amount of tickets sold at the box office to see how much a success and how popular the film is by doing this. Often when one film is very popular f a certain genre you will get a stream of similar films being released. For example if a vampire related film comes out and is extremely popular then you will often get several other vampire films released at a similar time.

Horror films are very popular in cinemas all round the world and create large amounts of money at the box office year after year. The majority of the audience are men between the ages of 15 and 45 they are often the target audience. People go to see films as they want to be affected, it may be that it makes them sad, happy or in this case frightened. Audiences are able to pay as little or as much attention as they like to the disturbing images that horror film have meaning thy can choose the effect it has on them. There is such a huge variety of horror films, gory, supernatural and tauter films which means there is something out thee for everyone to enjoy.