Amazon is one of the biggest online seller of Movie's in the world, so when looking for the best selling horror movie style it was important to make sure that we looked at the these states and chose our horror genre accordingly.The picture below is a direct screenshot from the official amazon website, giving the best selling of the different horror film ranging from paranormal to gore.
This is a list of the most popular horror movies, selling on amazon
1) World War Z - World War Z is a a zombie film in which you follow the main character fight his way out of multiple situations that threaten his life. We could incorporate a zombie style fim into our horror movie by doing the same idea of a main character either getting out of a situation with zombie or have the characters die by the hands of the zombie, all of these would build tension, by using a fast pace effect, this would draw in a audience and make them want to watch the full movie.
2) The Women in Black - The Women in Black is a paranormal Horror/Thriller which keeps there audience on the edge of there seat throughout. This kind of subgenre is clearly popular among people at the moment. The reason that people enjoy this film, is that it uses old horror techniques to help build tension, and uses the paranormal figure of the women in black, a well-known horror figure due to the play written by susan hill, this meant that this film is very popular among people.
3) Krampus - Krampus is different kind of horror film, based at christmas time, this gives it a more horrific feel due to the imagery that christmas is a happy and festive time, but this film breaks that stereotype. By breaking this stereotype it could give it a more scary feel, they build tension in this film by having sinister music playing and having slow pace shots when the characters are in peril, this makes the audience fell that something is going to happen.
4) Insidious 3 - The third instalment of the insidious series, all of these film have been very popular and that is due to the storyline, to many horror film have an interesting and engaging story which doesn't just scare the audience but interests then. Insidious does, they have a great mix off many different sub-genre with the use of Gore and Paranormal to make sure that this is at the top of the best selling horror films on amazon.
Popular Films Sub Genre
Because our sub-genre is slasher I thought I should look at the top 5 best slasher films that are trending on amazon.