Horror Budgets, Box office, Distribution

Depending on the horror film depends of the budget of it. Quite a lot of older horror films had a very low budget. Around $250,000. Where as some newer horror films (in the past 5 years) have very high budgets (in the millions). This could be due to special effects improving, which creates high expectations of the viewers for the genre, therefore costing a lot of money. Also things like actors and sets can cost a lot of money to make them look realistic.

There are lots of horror production company's some of the big ones are: Blumhouse Productions, Circle of Confusion, Dark Castle Entertainment, Ghost House Pictures, and so on. They produce and make the films.

Some of the famous horror distributors actually distribute a whole wide range of different film genres. An example is Universal. But there are some smaller distributors that mainly distribute, or in some cases only distribute horror films. Some examples of this are: Brain damage films, terror films, and so on. These companies market and distribute the film for the audiences to see.

The production company's that are small independent company's that accepts horror movie submissions. They then market and produce the film ready for it to be released to the cinema and then eventually on to DVD. Not many DVD's are being sold any more therefore the production companies don't produce as many as they used to. They tend to get the film into an online streaming company like Netflix or Amazon Prime. This is probably now the most popular way of watching films therefore these companies will want their films to be on these online streaming sites, so they can be watched. The production company then gets a cut of the money from the film each time it is watched online.