The document discusses various aspects of thriller films, including subgenres of thrillers and top grossing films. It provides a table showing ticket sales and market share for thrillers between 1995-2012, noting that thrillers were not very popular in some years but saw rising ticket sales and market share over time. The document also summarizes the plot of the thriller film "House at the End of the Street" and lists several thriller subgenres and distributors like Universal Studios and Summit Entertainment that have released popular thriller films. It concludes by identifying "The Dark Knight Rises" as one of the most successful thrillers financially.

1. Institutional Research
The thriller genre has many different subgenres stemming from it. Surprisingly,
there aren’t that many movies that are thrillers. Below is a table from
boxoficemojo.com that also contains the top grossing film from each genre that is
very high on each sub genre. For example, there are 59 movies in the serial killer
sub genre of thriller and the highest grossing filming this genre is Hannibal that
is $165.1 million gross.
Top Grossing Films - Thriller
Ticket Sales and Market Share by Year - Thriller
This table shows that thriller films were not very popular in 1995,1996, 2005
and 2003. On the other hand, there was a rise in the amount of tickets sold from
then on. The market share and the tickets sold was the highest in 2012 that was
almost 2000,000,000 tickets sold and 150,000,000 in market shares that may
mean that there was either a high number of thrillers that year or some big
thrillers such as Shutter Island or Bourne Ultimatum came out that year.

2. House at the end of the street
The genre of this film is thriller, Elissa (Jennifer Lawrence) and her mother
(Elisabeth Shue) move to a small town and find that they are neighbours to a
house where a young girl supposedly killed her parents. The locals said that the
girl dissapered and no one has seen her since the incident but Elissa becomes
close lovers to the girl’s brother (Max Thieriot) and she then learns that the
sinister story of murder is far from over as she knows that there is a secret kept
between the walls of the house.
Sub Genres of Thriller
Action Thriller
Conspiracy Thriller
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Crime Thriller

3. Disaster Thriller
Eco-Thriller
Forensic Thriller

4. Legal Thriller
Medical Thriller
There are more such as; Mystery Thriller, Political Thriller, Psychological
Thriller, Religious Thriller, Romantic Thriller, Spy Thriller, Supernatural Thriller
and Techno Thriller.

5. Thriller Distributers
There are lots of distribution companies that distribute thriller films. If a thriller
film is distributed by on of ‘The Big Six’ then a larger company is more likely to
distribute the film compared to and independent film company.
Universal studios were founded in 1912 and are one of the oldest film studios in
the world. Universal studios have released many different and popular thriller
films such as; ‘The Strangers’, ‘Drag Me To Hell’, ‘The Last House On The Left’,
‘Unborn’ and ‘Stay Alive’.
Summit Entertainment is another studio that has been known to release popular,
well known films. Film producers Bernd Eichinger, Arnon Milchan and Andrew G
Vajna founded Summit Entertainment in 1993. Summit Entertainment was
originally created to handle film sales in foreign countries but then expanded
and began producing great, unforgettable films in 1995 just 2 years after the
studio was founded. Some big thrillers which have been produced by summit
entertainment such as; ‘Sorority Row’, ‘Hurt Locker’ and ‘ Ghost Rider’.

6. One of the large film distributers is Momentum Pictures. Momentum Pictures is
one of the leading independent motion picture distributors in the UK and
releases on average 20 theoretical films a year, with several digital television
releases. Momentum pictures have many successful theoretic releases which
include the Oscar, BAFTA and BIFA winning movies such as; The Kings Speech,
Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Transaction, Control,
Downfall, The Young Victoria, Law Abiding Citizen and many more.
Most Successful Thriller
The Dark Knight Rises – Directed by Christopher Nolan
this is one of the most successful movies in the world. This
was produced by different companies that made this film so
successful as they have a massive budget. The production
companies involved were; Warner Bros Pictures, DC
Entertainment, Legendary Pictures and Syncopy this means
that they had a huge budget and a great movie as there
were many different aspects of the movie which were
specified by each production company to make the film
perfect and portrayed ‘Batman’ as they wanted. The
estimated budget was $45,000,000 and the opening
weekend made more money than it cost to make which was
$49,500,000 and the gross worldwide was $283,800,000.