General Audience Research

General Audience Research

The general people to watch horror films are either people who get a thrill out of a scare and enjoy watching graphic, gory scenes of violence for their own pleasure. Or people who are just looking for a fright once and a while.  Horror films have been attracting people since the start of cinema, psychiatrists have found horror films have been found to spark certain emotions of fear and dread in almost everyone who watches them. Throughout most people’s lives we have been left with a mental image or thought from watching a horror film/s this is the sort of adrenaline people look for when watching horror films.

People have found the main motives to watching horror films are finding the need for excitement, the desire to feel intense emotions and to get away from everyday problems. Many horror films go against the everyday social norms in society, many films give the viewer a buzz mentally but horror films give off a different kind of buzz for the viewer, ass it’s not every day you get to see a violent murder or a sadistic killer on the loose brutally hurting or doing things to people. The main viewer found to enjoy horror films are the male gender age 16 and up usually single or in groups of males. They seem to look for ‘sensation-seeking’ this is a form of pleasure they get from watching horror films, especially in groups of people mainly woman as it can show off their ‘masculine’ side proving they can watch horror films and brave through all they throw at you

Generally the viewers will either watch a horror film in a safe surrounding so they don’t feel threatened by what happening around them and their anxiety levels won’t get to the point of paranoid.  The horror films that scare and attract people the most are the ones proven to be a real life story (remake of what happened) these draw people to think and question about their everyday life and the things going on around you because you will always have it playing on your mind, this is one form of pleasure people get from it knowing that it could be happening around you. The genre has been around for ages and will always be there but the ideas are running out but the fright factor people go for will always be there.