This document is a questionnaire about preferences for horror films. It asks respondents about their age, gender, favorite horror film genres like thriller or psychological horror, what scares them most like killers or mysterious creatures, their favorite aspects like chases or resolutions, what puts them off films like poor acting or predictable endings, what entices them in trailers like plot or thrills, what they expect to see in trailers like mystery or death, how captions make them feel, how important music is in creating emotion, and which decades of films scared them most.

1. Media Studies
Horror Film Questionnaire
1) What is your age?
-13-16
-16-18
-18-21
-Above 21
-Other
2) What is your Gender?
3) What is your favourite ‘Genre’ within a horror film?
-Blood and Gore
-Thriller
-Physiological
-Monster based
4) What scares you the most in a horror?
-Psycho killers
-Real life situations
-Cannibals
-Mysterious creatures
5) What’s your favourite aspect of a horror film?
-The chase
-Thrill/Adrenaline rush
-The resolution
-Other
6) What puts you off watching a horror movie the most?
-No originality
-Bad acting
-to much realism/not enough realism
-when you can expect the ending
7) In a horror trailer what entices you the most?
-The plot

2. -The technical aspects
-The thrill
-other
8) What is the first thing you expect to see in a horror trailer?
-Normality
-The chase
-Mystery
-Death
9) How do intercut captions/voice overs make you feel during
a horror trailer?
-Tense
-Scared
-Aware
-Understanding of plot
-Nothing at all, their pointless
-Other
10) How important is the music in a horror film?
-very, it creates emotion
-quite
-not at all
11) Which Horror films do you find have been the most
effective in sparking negative emotion (scaring you)?
-1930s-1940s
-1950s-1960s
-1970s-1980-s
-1990s
-2000s