I looked at several different Thriller films whilst researching about the audience of a thriller film. The film 'What Lies Beneath' when voted on showed that more women between the ages of 18-29 enjoyed this film. I looked at the themes, conventions, setting, actors, and the storyline of the film to try to work out why this was. The first thing i noticed was that the main character was a woman. i thought that maybe women felt that they could relate more to the main character more than what they could if there was a male lead. The story is about a woman who was in a car crash and has just sent her daughter away to college, again these things may be related to more so than what men would as men and women deal with things very differently.
i decided to look at other films that had a female lead to see if women do relate to and enjoy the film more with a female lead.
Case 39, Black Swan, and The Exorcism of Emily Rose is some of the films that i looked at, when investigating again the results showed that women do enjoy thriller films that have a female lead, or female influences.
this is compared to films such as shutter island, inception and the town, all of which have male leads and males seemed to enjoy these more so than women did.
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