Halloween (1978) has been rated as the best slasher horror film so far on imdb.com. About 35,000 people aged between 18-29 watched this film and nearly 30,500 of those people are male. For this film, males in this age group rates this film 8.0/10 whereas the females in this age group rated it 7.7/10. This shows that this film was most preferred by males. For this film, bbfc.org.uk shows that this film's certificate is an 18 which means that nobody under the age of 18 should watch this film in a cinema or rent/buy it. An 18 certificate would mainly consist of much stronger violence with a few explicit images of sexual activity.
2. Friday 13th (2009)
According to imdb.com user ratings, Friday 13th (2009) wasn't rated as highly as Halloween (1978) but it still had a lot of user ratings. Again people aged between 18-29 have watched this film the most and it was preferred more by males in this age group rating it 5.7/10. This film is also an 18 certificate which means the guidelines for this film are exactly the same as Halloween (1978).
3. Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Once again this film was watched more by males between 18-29 but females under 18 seemed to prefer this film the most. Just like Friday 13th (2009), this film had a lot of views but was rated very low. Females under 18 rated it 6.5/10 whereas the males 18-29 rated it 5.2/10. Once again this film is also an 18 certificate.
4. Scream (1996)
This slasher film is just like Halloween (1978). It's been rated about the same as Halloween (1978). It was preferred more by males under 18 rating it 8.1/10 even though it was watched more by males aged 18-29. This film is also an 18 certificate.
5. Dead in 3 Days (2006)
This film was watched more by males aged 30-44 which is a much older target audience compared to these other films. However, males aged under 18 preferred this film the most rating it 7.5/10. Unfortunately I am unable to find out whether this film is has a certificate but looking back at the other 4 films I'm guessing that it might well be an 18 certificate.
We attracted our target audience by watching other horror films with our chosen sub-genre and looked for ideas for us to go on with since most if, not all these films above are all aimed at male/female teenagers aged between 16-18.
The plan to attract this target audience was to include characters who are about the same age as the audience which would allow the audience to relate to the characters.
And to target both male and females, we used 2 characters; 1 male and 1 female.
Our location was a friends run down caravan just next to their house and the main props we used was; a clown toy, a clown mask and a knife. These props that we used would attract the targeted audience even more because an audience at this age love watching scary films and they would instantly know from seeing these props that this film might well be scary.When it came to deciding what props to use, we knew that they would have to fit the conventions of our sub-genre. So we made sure that our killer wore a great disguise (the clown mask) and a stabbing implement (the knife).
Our victim is traditionally a female character and our killer is traditionally a male character so both of these characters will be able to engage both male and female audiences because the male audience will connect with the male killer and the female audience will connect with the female victim.
Just like the props make the film scary which attracts the targeted audience, the music adds even more to that effect of making our film even more scary.
Looking at the feedback from our class from watching our film, everyone really seemed to enjoy it. They all said that they would like to watch on to see what happens next and I think that they really enjoyed thanks to us using a male and a female character.
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