The horror genre
aims to make the audience watching develop a sense of fear, panic alarm and
dread. Horror films often rely on scaring the audience using their worst fears
or nightmares. Horror films are often linked with other genres including such
as Fantasy and Thriller. There is also a range of sub genres with Horror including
Supernatural-Horror and Fantasy Horror.
In 2010, there was
31 horror film releases with the best performing horror film being Paranormal
Activity 2 which is a supernatural horror.
In that year it was the 8th best genre with the genres above it
including Animation, Romance and Fantasy which has big releases including Toy
Story 3 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1. The horror genre only
made up for nearly 6% of all releases compared to nearly 28% for Drama as well
as this horror films only made £54.1million at the box office which is over
£100million less than most of the top 4 film genres of 2010. The genre also
only made up for 5.3% of the total box office figure.
In 2011, the
Horror genre was the 11th best performing genre. The genre released
1 more film than the previous year and made nearly £24million less at the box
office. Two of the top three genres are the same as the previous year but made
more money. The Horror genre made fewer releases than the top 2 genres although
two of the genres above it both released only 5 films and still beat the horror
genre. The Horror Genre made up 5.7% of
all releases in 2011 and only made up of 3.3% of the total box office for that
year.
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