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Intituation research
Box Office Performance for Horror Movies in 2010
Rank | Movie | Genre | MPAA | 2010 Gross | Tickets Sold | Inflation- Adjusted Gross |
1 | Horror | R | $84,660,648 | 10,784,796 | $84,660,649 | |
2 | Horror | R | $63,075,011 | 8,035,033 | $63,075,009 | |
3 | Horror | R | $62,189,884 | 7,922,278 | $62,189,882 | |
4 | Horror | R | $53,183,340 | 6,774,948 | $53,183,342 | |
5 | Horror | R | $45,710,178 | 5,822,953 | $45,710,181 | |
6 | Horror | PG-13 | $41,034,350 | 5,227,306 | $41,034,352 | |
7 | Horror | R | $39,123,589 | 4,983,897 | $39,123,591 | |
8 | Horror | R | $30,101,577 | 3,834,596 | $30,101,579 | |
9 | Horror | R | $25,003,155 | 3,185,115 | $25,003,153 | |
10 | Horror | R | $14,744,435 | 1,878,272 | $14,744,435 | |
11 | Horror | $13,261,851 | 1,689,408 | $13,261,853 | ||
12 | Horror | R | $181,467 | 23,117 | $181,468 | |
13 | Horror | R | $138,788 | 17,680 | $138,788 | |
14 | Horror | R | $101,740 | 12,961 | $101,744 | |
15 | Horror | R | $93,051 | 11,854 | $93,054 | |
16 | Horror | R | $64,214 | 8,180 | $64,213 | |
17 | Horror | R | $52,604 | 6,701 | $52,603 | |
18 | Horror | $35,855 | 4,568 | $35,859 | ||
19 | Horror | $5,673 | 723 | $5,676 | ||
20 | Horror | $3,697 | 471 | $3,697 | ||
Total Gross of All Movies | $472,765,107 | |||||
Total Tickets Sold | 60,224,857 | |||||
Total Gross of All Movies at 2008 ticket prices | $472,765,127 | |||||
As you can see from the table above, the highest grossing horror film of 2010 was paranormal activity 2. We can see that most of the highest grossing horror films are either sequels like resident evil: afterlife 3D or remakes like A nightmare on elm street. We also know that some of these horror films use 3D technology attracting a wider audience because it immerses the audience more in the film, although there are films with a high budget to produce, we see that paranormal activity is 16th in the list and paranormal activity 2 is 1st. This shows us that you don’t need a huge budget to create a huge profit.
From these stats I would say that our film can be a low budget film and still produce a massive profit. So I would say that it would be easier to make a low budget film, as long as you create a big enough hype over the film people will go to see it despite if they think they like it or not. We’ll do this through viral marketing on the internet. Also the ratings for all of these films except number 6th on the list are all rated R movies. This tells me that if a horror films wants to do good it generally has to be quite graphic. Although some would say that if it is possible to reduce the age rating of a film it will increase the target audience. I think there is a gap in the market for a low budget, none graphic horror movie. This is what will we hope to achieve in the making of our horror film.
Friday, 21 January 2011
A history of horror films
Horror films are films that are created to inflict the feeling of fear and a lack of safety to the audience. Directors use shock, gore, amongst combining real life fears, such as; murderers, pandemics and surrealism. Horror films often include and evil force, built up with tension and What is considered to be a horror film has varied from decade to decade. These days, the term "horror" is applied to films which display more explicit gore, jump scenes/scares or supernatural content (Wes Craven's New Nightmare, A Tale of Two Sisters, Saw films, The Strangers, The Ring, Session 9)
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. More recent horror films continue to exploit the monsters of literature. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent short films. The early 20th century brought more milestones for the horror genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris" It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931)
With advances in technology that occurred in the 1950s, the tone of horror films shifted from the gothic toward concerns that some saw as being more relevant to the late-Century audience. A stream of low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats from "outside" and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects, most notably in films imported from Japan, whose society had first-hand knowledge of the effects of nuclear radiation. Ghosts and monsters still remained popular, but many films used the supernatural premise to express the horror of the demonic. The Innocents and The Haunting are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s. In Rosemary's Baby by, the devil is made flesh.
Early horror movies are largely based on classic literature of the gothic/horror genre, such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Phantom of the Opera, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. More recent horror films continue to exploit the monsters of literature. The first depictions of supernatural events appear in several of the silent short films. The early 20th century brought more milestones for the horror genre including the first monster to appear in a full-length horror film, Quasimodo, the hunchback of Notre-Dame who had appeared in Victor Hugo's novel, "Notre-Dame de Paris" It was in the early 1930s that American film producers, particularly Universal Pictures Co. Inc., popularized the horror film, bringing to the screen a series of successful Gothic features including Dracula (1931) and Frankenstein (1931)
With advances in technology that occurred in the 1950s, the tone of horror films shifted from the gothic toward concerns that some saw as being more relevant to the late-Century audience. A stream of low-budget productions featured humanity overcoming threats from "outside" and deadly mutations to people, plants, and insects, most notably in films imported from Japan, whose society had first-hand knowledge of the effects of nuclear radiation. Ghosts and monsters still remained popular, but many films used the supernatural premise to express the horror of the demonic. The Innocents and The Haunting are two such horror-of-the-demonic films from the early 1960s. In Rosemary's Baby by, the devil is made flesh.
Background research
This is some of our background research. this film was one of the 1st horror films ever.
Monday, 17 January 2011
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