Horror Movie Survey

Nishat Simi Khan & Sharmila Aktar

We sent our survey out to 28 people – 13 males and 15 females to see what it is that our audiences would like in horror films, which will help us decide what are the most important factors to consider whilst making our

own.This is what we found out.

Age• Most of our audience is within

the 15-18 range. This is ideal as our initial target audience was actually also between the 15-18 marking as we feel we will be able to appeal to them more. • 78% of our target audience is

between this range therefore giving us a more accurate collection of results.

Genre of horror films • Although we know what genre our

horror film is, we wanted to ensure that it is also what the public want without influencing their decisions by telling them our genre.

• To our advantage, 25% chose psychological (our sub genre), with comedy close by at 21% and thriller at 17%.

If you could create your own horror movie, which two sub genres would you choose?

• As producers of a horror film, we thought it would be interesting to see what two sub genres our audience would choose it were all up to them.

• We found out that Action was chosen by 8 people, psychological – 12, Zombie – 2, Slasher – 4, Comedy – 6, Thriller – 12, Gothic – 3, and Supernatural – 3.

• We now know that Psychological and Thriller alongside Comedy are the main favourites of our target audience.

What element scares you the most? • One of the main aspects of a horror film are

what makes the audience frightened the most therefore this question was the most fundamental part of the questionnaire.

• The results show that sound and music was the most significant part as 71% (20 people) had chosen this. The second most important is darkness (11) and thirdly is Settings with (9).

• This therefore shows us what aspects we need to consider more whilst creating our film.

Which sort of character do you like the most in a horror film?

• From this question, it was quite evident that the most favourite character was in fact a villain of some sort.• Many had chosen the

murderer as a favourite character showing that they want an evil character included in the film.

Biggest fear • In order to corporate psychological fear into

our film, it was important that we found out what our audience were most scared of.

• Although there is a large variety of answers, many are to do with spiders, ghosts/supernatural as well as the dark or small spaces. Others are more motivational things like religion or life goals.

• This hints to us what we should include in our film for example, the dark.

Do you prefer olden horror films or more modern ones?

• To help create a film that appeals to our audience, we had to find out which type of film interests them more.

• The results show that the ‘new’ modern films are more preferred for example, The Conjuring.

Does a horror film scare you more if it's based on real life events?

• This immediately tells us that horror films do in fact scare people a lot more if it is based on a true story.

What is the best/worst horror film you have watched?• To compare our own film and

ideas, we wanted to find out which films our target audience liked the most, and the ones they didn’t. • Most of the films which appealed

to them were modernised psychological films whereas the ones they disliked were horror comedy like Scary Movie 2.