Research on Target audience for Thrillers

This picture is the cover of the film salt, a thirller from 2010. The film cover shows us a young very attractive woman which is looking straight at us, the audience, the viewer. By having her as the front of the poster, they are automatically ming the film very appealing to men. Another audience this film is targeted at are young people, roughly 18-35 as the film doesn't seem to have a large amount of political issues, it seems more entertaining. Even though the cover of the film is appealing to men as she is very attractive this could also to be very appealing to women as they find films with female pretagonists are more related to them and they can relate more with the character.

A lot of the times, infact most thirllers are usually 18+ rated. The reason that thrillers are one of the most common 19+ rated movies is that the film will usually touch a very strong subject that could be too much for an underage person. In a thriller we usually see a lot of killings, this could be very harsh for a young person to see.

One more reason this genre tends to be 18+ is there usually a couple involved and many sexual scenes. Sex is a very strong subject for an underage person like me to view, as there could be a lack of maturity or understanding of the film.


Apart from sex a lot of the time we see very pshycological films. A film like this tends to make the audience think a lot and could have a very strong message to the film. So with this being the case, producers tend to target these films at over 18's as they are more likely to concentrate and interact more with the film.