Paul Wells conducted a small group research of 12-28 people.
The conclusions that he gathered were:
- The relationship to being frightened changes with age, it relates to broader factors affections emotional responses
- Audiences between 1970-1990 were not that used to special effects whereas 'monster' films of 1920-1930's reported very strong personal responses to images and iconography of horror
- Young people are aware of artificially and are becoming harder to shock which films play into this knowingness of horror conventions.
41-55 years (1945-1959) advancements in technology
26-40 years (1960-1974) disliked predictability of films
16-25 years (1975-1984) understood films were artificial
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