Paul Well decided to conduct a focus group study involving twelve people in different age groups (16-25, 26-40, 41-55, 56-80). Below is a table that represents the results that Well concluded from the research.
There are many different conclusions I can draw from this study for example the relationship to being frightened changes with age and relates to broader factors affecting emotional responses. An example of this conclusion is that 16-25 year olds "enjoy the spectacle - bloodletting and gore' whilst 56-80 year olds "were scared by rats" and had the "fear of breakdown of law and order" in mind whilst watching a horror movie. Another conclusion we can gather is that the audience between 1970's and 1990's are more anaesthetised to explicit special effects, whereas 'monster' films of 1920's and 1930's reported a very strong response to images and iconography of horror (when a cinema was new and unknown). The final conclusion from this study is that younger audience are aware of artificiality and this makes it harder to shock them. However, there are also limitations with this study itself. We can see it is a small study as Paul Well only took twelve members of each age groups opinions. This does not represent each age members opinion as everyone has a different opinion on horror movies itself.
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