Horror Audiences

• Based on research there are two groups to horror films; those who love watching horror films and those who despise watching horror films and do not want to associate with it at all!

• Audiences tend to recognise the presence of the genre horror in films through the codes and conventions. For example:

• From the history of horror films, the following elements were mostly found in horror texts and films: 

• Children are also often used in horror films as the mystery of a horror film.
• The children normally don't speak and are used as a more visual horror.
• For instance in the film The Woman in Black, the children are not the main characters but they haunt the Eel Marsh House. 
• On the other hand, in many of the current horror films children are used as the main character's son or daughter. 
• At the beginning of the film they are perfectly ordinary but throughout the horror film they gradually change.
• In many story lines from horror films there is a final girl alive to confront the killer. 
• An example is in The Grudge where the woman is the only one left alive to kill the zombies.