PRODUCTION AND

DISTRIBUTORS By Sujata

12. Who produces and distributes horror films?

20th century fox

• 20th century fox is a big filmmaking company, it is included

in 6 major American film studios category. The company

was founded in 1935 and has been successful throughout

the years. It has produced many Hollywood blockbusters

such as Alien series (1979,1986,1992,1997,2007), The

Omen series (1976,19811990,1991), What lies beneath

(2000). 20th century fox produces and distributes a lot of

franchise film. This is a way for the company to maximize

their film profits

• The company is a subsidiary of News corporation, which

is owned by the big media conglomerate Rupert Murdoch.

Hammer Films

• UK based film production company

• Best known for Gothic ‘Hammer Horror’

• They are known for these horror genres: Sci-fi, thriller, film

noir, comedies

• Once dominated horror film market and distributed films

world wide-This was due to a distribution partnership with

major company such as Warner Bros.

Films produced by Films

• The Mummy (1959)

• Dracula (1958)

After the production of these

films the production company

established “hammer horror”

this is similar to Gothic cinema

• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

followed by a franchise of

Frankenstein films

Typical hammer horror films

Blumhouse Productions

• American film production company

• Produces micro and low-budget genre films such as Insidious, Paranormal Activity, Sinister franchise.

• Insidious grossed over $97 million worldwide on a budget of $1.5m

• I chose to do my case study on this because of the plausible horror films they have produced. As supernatural is going to be our sub genre for our film, this company would be a very good choice as it works with low-budget films.

• The upcoming horror films they are producing is ‘Jessabelle’ for Lions gate.

Horror films produced by Blumhouse

• Sinister series

• Paranormal Activity series

• Insidious

• Ouija

• The Purge

Evaluation

• Hammer films which produced ‘The woman in black’ are

more towards Gothic horror, whilst Blumhouse

productions is more supernatural horror. The sub-genre

I’m hoping to convey through the film opening is a

supernatural horror.

• This is because right now there seems to be a rise in

popularity for supernatural horror (as shown in my

audience research). As a result for the suitability of the

film genre and the fact that it works on micro scale on a

low budget films is another factor that attracted me to this

production company.

Screamtime films

• Distributes independent horror films

• All films and DVDs are self created and sold exclusively

sold by Screamtime films

• They distribute in VHS and DVD formats, as well as

through digital channels.

Screamtime

films website

What company would be suitable for

distributing our film?

• All these companies are similarly suitable to distribute

our film. However hammer films has a reputation for

successful films and their recent success was ‘The

woman in black’ which includes few of the things we

want to include in our film. However realistically

speaking ‘Scream time films’ are also a good choice, if

our film is low budget or like a start up.