Statistics

Our opening sequence is aimed at a target audience of the age of 15 and above. Our audience is those who enjoy the genre of horror and thriller. We tend to consider films in terms of their genre – whether their comedy, romantic or horror – the mise en scene is what distinguishes each genre separate from one another. We are able to tell apart these different genres by their themes and narratives. Our sequence is aimed at an audience that enjoy horror/ psychological thriller films such as The Ring and Saw etc… films of the same genre tend to hold similar conventions.

I researched figures of films of the same genre from the website www.boxofficemojo.com to check horror/thriller/torture films on the rank chart and how popular such films of this genre could be. Figures off the same genre were looked at in order to see their success and development. This was done in the intent to become aware of how popular our sequence would be and whether it will be able to be a large success.
Research showed that highest on the horror/torture rank chart is Saw II that made $147,739,965 gross worldwide. This showing how popular a successful thriller can make. Following on from Saw in second place currently standing is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre which was said to be based on a true life story. Statistics show that this made $107,071,655 gross worldwide. This shows that films of this genre hold a large audience and are very popular worldwide.
Other horror films that are also very high on the rank chart are films such as:
· All The Saw Films
· The Strangers
· Hostel
· Hills Have Eyes
· vacancy
· The Devils Rejects
· Wolf Creek
· House Of 1,000 Corpses
· The Hitcher

I also research figures of films of thriller films from the same website and checked how popular films of this genre are. Once again I looked at the figures of these films in order to establish how popular such films are using the same website.
Researched showed that highest on the thriller / serial killer rank chart is Hannibal with the worldwide gross of $351,692,268. Following on from this was The Silence of the Lambs and this had the worldwide gross of $272,742,922. These figures can help us in understanding the success of films from this genre and able us to realise whether our sequence will hold a large audience or not.
Other thriller films that are also very high on the rank chart are films such as:
*Basic instinct
*Seven
*Red dragon
*Saw
*The bone collector
*Psycho
*Kiss the girls
*Dressed to kill
*Taking lives
*Monster
*The Cell