Analysis and conclusion of genre and classification statistical data from 2014: When comparing the data of genre the focus will be on the genres I have studied, this means that the two genres I am going to compare are Horror and Thriller. In terms of which genre was more popular in the context of amount of films made it would be Thriller as 64 were made compared to Horrors 37. Straight away we assume this is because Thriller is a more popular genre but we have to consider the costs of the film, more may be made due to the genre being more cost effective and in actual fact Horror may be the more popular of the two. However it may literally be the fact that Thriller is in more demand, this may be due to the time as in different time periods different genres tend to do better than others, a good example being Westerns as in the 1970's they were extremely popular but now there were 3 made in the past year, one of the lowest goals for a genre. However the fact is the film makers will probably feel Thriller is easier to sell than Horror, maybe because with most Horrors the age to watch is 18 but with many Thrillers they can have an age rating of 15 so it opens up the market and to those film makers would be conceived as a lower risk. Again due to Thriller having a higher number of films released it also unsurprisingly has a higher percentage of all releases (9.2%) when compared to Horror (5.3%) which again shows that as a whole, in cinemas at least, Thrillers are more popular and over time generally have been because it has more context to reality than Horror because when you think about some of the characters in a Thriller we may often think about a serial killer and there has always been a story or an investigation into a serial killer in real life so to people this real world effect makes it more popular than something like Horror, which like Thrillers is fiction but unlike a Thriller we know that the concept of a lot of Horrors are impossible. However the trend of Thriller being more popular than Horror which has been present so far changes, as in terms of grossing on box office the Thriller genre is low when you consider how many films in that genre were made and it is even more surprising that Horror actually exceeds Thriller in gross box office%. This may be down to the fact that Horrors generally aren't hyped as blockbuster films like Thrillers so they don't do so well in cinema releases, however they are great for seasonal entertainment, such as halloween and other factors such as age restriction may mean that younger people have to wait and to download it to watch with parental guidance. As expected based on the fact Horror is higher grossing on the box office it will have a higher percentage of the total box office which shows that the foothold in the industry is more secure than Thriller, or is it? The fact still remains that although a Thriller will have less of the box office the fact that it does not cost a great deal of money to make a Thriller it is likely that most Thrillers will make a safe profit so are a low risk film which is why more are made even though there are lower grossing percentages from the genre in comparison to Horror. On top of this Horrors were screened in more cinemas when compared with Thrillers so they are seen as more widespread films but at the same time Thrillers had more releases so it shows that even though they are not shown in as many cinemas, the fact remains that Thriller is shown on mass in comparison to sparse showings.