Audience Research

I went on to the website Box Office Mojo and looked at the overall popularity and grossing of thriller films. Here are the results.

The sub genera 'On the Run' has the highest popularity and grossing, followed by 'Political' both are popular genres as seen from the amount of money made from each of the different sub genres.

Films such as 'Skyfall' which is a thriller grossed allot of popularity and money for example on the opening weekend it grossed $88,364,714. Thriller films seem to be one of the bigger genres from the amount of money made from allot of the thriller films out especially at the moment another example is Alfred Hitchcocks 'North by Northwest' which grossed $13,275,000.

On the IMDb website, you can see the two top films grossing the most amount of money are both thriller films. IMDb is a website which is a database for films and people can vote and give them a sore out of 10. It seems that thriller films are allot of the time, especially at this point in the year, are allot of the time the top grossing films compared to other films out at the same time. This shows that allot of the time the thriller genre is preferred to other genres.

On IMDb's top rated 250, the top three films are of the thriller genre, they all have 9.0 or over. Also IMDb is from the public voting for what films they like and what they would like the rating to be, this means thriller films are the most popular within IMDb's website.