Research: Survey Results

Excluding the immature results I received by posting my results on Facebook, I have gathered a range of useful results in my Survey for Horror Films

 

Here are my results of the general age group that took my survey.
64.0% of these were female and 36% were male

When asked how often they watched horror films, Above are the results I received

I next asked if they liked horror films and got a positive result, 14 said yes but 11 said no

When I asked them why not, I received things like;
"They tend to be more gore than thrills, gets a bit same-old after a while."
"They're scary and I don't like gory things"
"I don't find the genre appealing all that much, as they're quite linear."

When I asked what they liked about horror films they said;
"The suspense and dread of people being caught up in events beyond their control"
"Get you thinking and the adrenaline - I like to see how scared I can get!"
"The gore and story-lines"

I then asked Do you feel that documentary style horror films such as the Blair Witch Project are more effective than purely fictional horror films such as Saw and why? (Results above)
Reasons Why;"Horror is more scary when it's presented as being real"
"It's because something we could somewhat relate to, as they are partially real. Also scary because its based on a fact, the world we live in."
"I prefer purely fictional films as I think the plot moves a lot faster"
From this question I gathered that most people prefer films that are more realistic and relatable and "Realistic" was mentioned in almost every answer


My Final question was "What is your favourite sub-Genre of horror films?"

Here we can clearly see that paranormal films are the most popular closely followed by comedy horrors, perhaps comedy is a close run-up because as you can see in the Paranormal activity trailer people would resort to laughter when being scared as a way to cope with the adrenaline being received. I think I have concluded a good set of results and I feel I know some key elements to use in my main task


I recently read the article posted by Mr Henton and found it quite interesting, you can read it too by clicking here