IMDb (The Internet Movie Database) Research
Our trailer of a horror is going to be on Paranormal sub genre. We are aiming to construct a J- Horror inspired "Yuri" horror. We used the idea of a young girl from a troubled background rising from the dead for revenge. We can see what the most successful horrors are from the website ‘IMDB’ because we are able to acknowledge the most popular genres of horror from critics. This is so we know what the audience like to see. Our initial idea was adapted by The Ring (2002) which got a rating of 7.1/10 from 143,829 users. A lot of users have searched for The Ring (2002) and also rated their opinion on it.This specific horror was chosen because it got a high rating in contrast to the re-make of Halloween (2007) which got 6.0. This allowed us to come to the conclusion that paranormal is more likely to have an impact on our profit.````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````
As you can clearly witness from the image on the left hand side, slasher movies seem to have a lower rating then the sub genre of paranormal. This may illustrate that a gruesome sub genre doesn't attract the audience. Another reason why Halloween (2007) might have a lower rating is due to the age rating. As you can see on Halloween (2007) the rating was given a 6.0/10 from 58,238 users. This is 1.2 lower than The Ring (2002).
Paranormal activity 3 (2011) on IMDB is been given a rating of 6.0/10 from 43,027 users. This is a better rating than the slasher horror genre. Its been giving the same rating from the public as Halloween (2007). Its got a metacritic score of 59/100 which is very good. The age rating for Paranormal Activity 3 (2011) is 15. Which allows a wider audience and therefore makes it a more profitable film.
Forsaken (2001)
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As a group we looked at ratings for vampire films and saw that they were very low. However we found this film consisted of a 'seducing' gory theme that we are aiming for. Even though the rating is low (5.1) , it was released in 2001 so it may be due to the lack of interest in this genre due to no SFX. We are aiming to change this genre into a very loving genre for the audience. This trailer also has a heroic protagonist which would further develop in the entire film as it would be inevitable for a male to escape.
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BY CHLOE YOUNG.
Movies such as 'Kiss Of The Damned' and 'Byzantium' are popular horrors that contains a family of vampires.
Even TV programs such as 'The Vampire Diaries' are popular.
By Kirsty.
Even TV programs such as 'The Vampire Diaries' are popular.
By Kirsty.
With IMDB as you can see in 2014 a strange occurrence has happened as it seems that much more older, vintage films such as 'Jaws' (1975) and 'Psycho' (1960) are in the top 3 films with 'The Purge' (2013) at second. This suggests that audiences of this generation are more interested in older films rather than newer films hence why 'Jaws' is number one in the Horror list for 2014. This is highly strange as during our audience research experiments most people stated 'We'd like to see something new and original', however this was only a section of people, perhaps more people are now becoming intrigued with the oldies.
Fright Night (2011) is a remake from the original created in 1985 was highly entertaining and slightly scary. However the score on IMDB is pretty much average. With this film being a remake perhaps people hindered this due to this aspect as more people may have liked the original rather than the remake even though it is embracing the modern technology as well as appealing to the generation. Although, this score is not the best as a group we are still exploring the sub genre of Vampires as we believe we can rekindle the vampire generation and make seem popular again.