What is it?
Box Office Mojo is a website that lists hundreds of films in order of highest-to-lowest grossing at the box office. This is useful when determining what films are popular/ what genres make the most money. There are many different categories to filter the lists from such as: studios, genres, people and franchises.
This can be used to decide what type of film to make as you will be able to estimate how popular it will be at the box office.
Below is a list of different horror sub-genres and the top five grossing films of all time in each genre:
Box Office Mojo is a website that lists hundreds of films in order of highest-to-lowest grossing at the box office. This is useful when determining what films are popular/ what genres make the most money. There are many different categories to filter the lists from such as: studios, genres, people and franchises.
This can be used to decide what type of film to make as you will be able to estimate how popular it will be at the box office.
Below is a list of different horror sub-genres and the top five grossing films of all time in each genre:
Anthology
Period
Slasher
Supernatural
Supernatural
Comedy
Comedy
Conclusion
From this information, it is clear that supernatural horror films are the highest grossing. There also hasn't been an extremely successful one in a very long time, meaning that there is a big gap in the market waiting to be explored. Our horror film should be a supernatural horror.