This is box office guru with the top 20 films in 2014. This is showing the films distributors and how many theaters they are being distributed too. This also shows the top rating of the list of movies which have recently come out. Here are the different genres at our local cinemas; comedy, action, musical, adventure/fantasy, but there are not a lot of horrors included in this top 20 example we have chosen. This gives us an opening to put our horror, sub genre - paranormal film and teaser trailer into the eyes of the media and the public audience.
PARANORMAL HORROR
As you can see Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) is bestseller on Box office Guru. In one week it made $40,678,424 (£25,352,705) and the movie has been shown in 3,216 theaters world wide.
SLASHER HORROR
As you can see here Saw Va slasher sub-genre of horror was ranked 17th. In 5 weeks the film mate $459,081 (£286,120) and the movie had been shown in 694 theaters world wide. Which shows that Paranormal films are more popular then slashers.
Angus Biggar