Box Office Mojo is a website which tracks box office revenue in a systematic way. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet movie database, owned by Amazon. The website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. It is the leading online box-office reporting service. Box Office Mojo is owned and operated by IMDb. IMDb is one of the worlds popular sources for TV and films, IMDb offers a searchable database of more than 185 million data items including more than 3 million movies, TV and entertainment programs and more than 6 million cast and crew members, it offers ticketing, trailers, critics and user reviews.
When opening the website it shows a category of films with 'showdowns' of their box office revenue.
When searching for horrors it gave us a range of choices for different horror genres such as slasher and comedy - contrasting what is available.
From these results you can see that Horror - Supernatural made the most revenue and an example of this is Sixth Sense. Sixth Sense is about a troubled, isolated boy who is able to see and talk to the dead, and an equally troubled child pyschologist who tries to help him. From the IMDb website, we can see that Sixth Sense has been given a score of 8.1.
This information is useful to us for our horror film due to the certain facial expressions and body language, we can use these tips to broaden our use media and make our film better.