After researching film audiences, I have come to find that many teenagers tend to watch cross genres like horror thriller or action thriller instead of watching a movie solely based on the thriller genre. Although, anybody can watch a thriller, it is more male skewed in terms of adding much more masculine aspects. For example; the movie poster of the 2008 action thriller movie "Taken" can be seen to be aimed at males rather than females as you can see a man in the centre of the poster holding a gun and the colours surrounding him are dark colours, mainly grey and black which will automatically tell the viewers that this is a manly film. However, due to the old age of the man in the poster and the visible violence, the movie "Taken" is sure to be given a rating of the age appropriate 18.
On the other hand, to make horror or thriller movies appeal more to the female target market, film writers are now including romantic twists; this can be seen in the French movie "He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not"- (À la folie... pas du tout).
As you can see from the above opening of "He Loves Me... He Loves Me Not" the entire opening sequence seems nothing like a thriller, but more like a romantic genre based film. The director is obviously tricking the audience, thus captivating them into wanting to watch more expecting to be seeing a thriller. This thriller movie is female skewed, as its using the conventions of a romantic film instead of opening like any other thriller. Furthermore, it can be said that supernatural thrillers are also female skewed focusing on little children and sometimes even using them as the villain of the movie.
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