The Quiet Ones - August 2014
Annabelle - October 2014
Devils Due - January 2014
As Above So Below - August 2014
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones - January 2014
The Babadook - October 2014
Dracula Untold - October 2014
Oculus - June 2014
Jessabelle - November 2014
Ouija - October 2014
The horror films listed were the most publicised and promoted movies in 2014. Trailers for these movies were shown on TV, Youtube adverts and even on twitter. Throughout the year it appears that horror movies are mainly shown at either the beginning of the year, in the summer and coming towards the end of the year. This may be purposefully done in the horror industry, especially for all the horror films released in October which is the lead up to Halloween to make the horror films appear more scary. The main sub genre of horror shown from these movies appears to be the supernatural one. 2014 for horror movies seems to be related to supernatural rather than slashers or any of the other sub genres. The movie industry has decided to make majority supernatural movies this year which may be because feedback from audience has shown that they find supernatural horrors the most frightening.
I've researched some movies from 2013 and similarly majority of the horrors from 2013 such as: Contracted, The Last Exorcism Part 2, Devils Pass, Nothing Left To Fear, The Haunting In Connecticut 2, Insidious Chapter 2, The Conjuring and Mama are all supernatural horrors. Horror movies in 2012 seemed to be dominated by slashers or vampire movies so the past two years it looks as if the movie industry wanted to make a change and switch to predominately supernatural horrors films.
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