According to questionnaires given to an audience, the most popular thriller movies were Paranormal Activity, Scream, The Ring, Inception, and Bad Boys. These movies were favorites likely because they represented popular psychological, horror, and action subgenres. Respondents also enjoyed Armageddon, Die Hard trilogy, and others. When asked about preferred villains, the audience favored psychotic villains for horror movies but also liked serial killers. For action films, they preferred a superhero battling a supervillain.