Netflix is a multinational entertainment company which specializes in streaming movies but also provides DVD's through the mail. Netflix is by far the most popular for its wide selection of films for rental and streaming. According to the most recent report, Netflix has around 34 million subscribers internationally and in 2015 alone Netflix users watched 42.5 billion streaming hours overall which highlights how much time people spend watching movies/TV. The site is available on all devices and gadgets which makes it all the more popular amongst all age groups.
As you enter the Netflix site clicking on the horror genre option takes you to a list of popular horror films. But clicking on the 'sub genre' box and selecting the 'Slasher films' option takes you to the highest rated films in that sub genre. You can see here that the new film Hush and the Saw films are clearly very popular and highly rated. Therefore these will be some of the most rented horror films on the streaming site.
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Saw V is one of the 7 movies in the series. The Saw films are known for the huge amounts of violence included and torture weapons which make the experience for the audience all the more horrifying. Therefore, in our slasher horror film we make sure to include scenes of violence using unusual vile weapons.
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Hush is a 2016 slasher horror film which is about a deaf writer who lives alone in the woods and has to avoid a masked intruder with an arsenal of weapons and escape. The suspense in the trailer is very important because it leaves the audience guessing but also in the trailer we don't know what weapons the killer has to kill her. We will keep our audience guessing how the villain/killer will kill the victim by not showing the weapon straight away.
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One of Netflix's biggest competitors in the movie streaming industry is Amazon Prime. We all know Amazon as a reliable site where you can buy near enough anything, so when they created Amazon Prime Video it was bound to become well-liked. In 2011 the site added access to 5,000 movies which then made it one of Netflix's biggest rivals.
According to the 'Included with Prime' list of popular streamed films A Nightmare on Elm Street and Clown are two of the highest rated and most popular streamed.
- A Nightmare on Elm Street is a classic horror film recreated in 2010 . The film includes teenagers who are being stalked by a man called Freddy Kruger. In the film they are tortured. In our horror film if we use more than one victim we will make sure to use different forms of torturing/killing and build the suspense throughout.
- Clown is a 2015 slasher horror film which involves a scary clown who learns that he has to kill 5 children in order to give the demon (the deadly thing who made him into the clown) what he wants. The film follows the clowns