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I had asked 23 people. 10 of them are male and 13 of them are female. Their age is between 16 to above 21. And, 9 o them are British and another 9 of them are Chinese. The last 5 people are Indian or other. 4of them are 16. 6of them are 17. 5of them are 18. 3of them are 19. 1of1them is 20.And 4 of1them are over 21. Therefore, most of the interviewees are teenagers.

Most of the interviewees like watching horror film. Only 4 of them dislike watching horror, and those 4 people all are Chinese. It is because they are scared of this.

In the result that people who like watching horror, they are usually feel excited about the film.
Then, half of them will have a deep memories of the story after watching the film. Based on, the cameras work. Most of them said that if the shots are fantastic or scary, they will remember it.
After that, most of the interviewees think that if the environment is quiet, they will feel scary. It is because silence will make people have more space in their mind to think about what will happen in this quiet environment. Also, screaming is another sound that make people feel scary, too. It is because screaming can be shared emotion. We scream when we are scary or saw something horrible and unbelievable. That why when the characters scream in the film, the audience will feel scary too.

The elements that make audiences interested to notice are characters and narrative. Besides, the music and sound effect also attract audiences to notice. Sound effect makes the sense becomes stronger. For example, the sound of the wind the sound odd roping blood,etc.
Moreover, the audience expect to see in the horror are blood and something that are scary, death, murder and mystery. But the Chinese interviewees expect to watch some surprise shot, such as there have something suddenly appeared.

To conclude, the favorite top 5 horror film are as follows.
1# SAW
2# THE RING
3# REC.
4# SCREAM
5# DEAD SILENCE

Western audience expect to see some scary things in the horror. They need the scared feel directly. For example, they want to see some murder, bloody and monster, etc.
However, for the eastern audience expect to have some surprise through the horror. The term of “surprise” is mean that they want to have some shocked shot. Like, there have something appear on the screen suddenly. Eastern horror film almost use the ghost to be the storyline. It is because ghosts give us a sense that was mystery. And, the ghost will appear and disappear mysteriously. Those mystery things are eastern audience want to see. It is because they want to think more through the film. And, showing is more scary than telling. That eastern horror will give much space to the audience to think more. When the audience are using their mind to think about the story, they will create a super scary ending for their own.

Moreover, out of those top 5 horror film, there have two are not produce from Hollywood. And, the DEAD SILENCE is also a US film. That had the same director with SAW. And, its main element of horror is screaming.