In 2013,the top 5 film genres of the total box office were Animation, action, comedy, sci-fi and drama. The horror genre placed 8th and the thriller genre placed 12th. There were 37 horror films released and 67 thriller films released in that year. Although there were less horror films produced, they created a lot more profit (£28.4 million more) than thriller films. The horror genre created £57.7 million whereas films of the thriller genre created £29.1 million but thriller films are more popular in terms of the number of films released. This shows that the horror genre is overall more profitable and popular with the public than the thriller genre.
In the UK and Ireland in 2013, there were 10,708 box offices of the horror genre showed per site, meaning that there was 10,708 films of that genre showed per cinema whereas there was less than half the number of box offices of the thriller genre showed per site (only 5,127). This means that more profit would have been made from the horror genre as the gross box office for the thriller genre was £29.1 million whereas for the horror genre. the gross box office was £57.5 million. Although the horror genre made more profit than the thriller genre, thrillers were shown at more sies than horros as films of the thriller genre were shown at 5,667 sites and films of the horror genre were shown at 5,367 sites. This shows us that generally horror films were more popular in 2013 than thriller films as they were shown at more sites but less box offices were shown per site and therefore the gross box office was less for the thriller genre than the horror genre.
Although there seemed to be more showings of horror films than thriller films in the UK and Ireland in 2013, there were more releases of independent thriller films (17) than there was of independent films of the horror genre (7). Films of the thriller genre also took up a larger percentage of all releases than horror films as the thriler genre took 12.2% of all showings and the horror genre took up 5% of all releases. The genre that took up the largest percentage of all releases would be documentaries as they took up 23.7 % of all releases. The top performing title for horror and thriller genres were World War Z for horror andThe Counsellor for thriller which aren't very well known films however the top performing title for the documentary genre was the 'One Direction - This is us' film. This would have taken up a larger percentage of releases because One direction have a large fanbase meaning that there would have been a certain audience (Teenage girls) going to watch the film. However, the horror genre still made the largest gross box office as it made £14.8 million, the documentary made £9.4 million and the thriller genre made £4.1 million. This again shows that although there were more releases of films of the thriller genre, the horror genre was still more popular to the public and produced more profit.
From analysing this data we can see that overall, the horror genre creates more profit and generally more popular to the public than the thriller genre, however the horror genre is not the most popular genre overall although it was very profitable in the UK and The Republic Of Ireland in 2013.
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