Pros and Cons of the Horror Genre

Pros - 

• Large Audience - The Horror genre appeals to many different types of people, hence creating a wider audience.
• Easy mise-en-scene - The lighting for Horror films can be very simple and easy to achieve.
• Easy to find actors - The actors could be new to the business, as long as you have a good story line you can have new actors.
• Higher worldwide gross - The Horror genre is very popular worldwide and could easily create a higher gross than other genres.

Cons -

• Easy to go wrong - This particular genre is very difficult to get just right as you need the right balance of horror, thrill, fear and suspension to get people to watch it.
• Lots of shots - To create a truly scary film, the editing and camera shots are usually very sharp and jumpy which would mean us exploring a variety of shots to portray our idea correctly. (Maybe this isn't such a bad thing, but we want to get it just right)
• High budget - Many Horror films use many different props, costumes and locations to make the film more realistic. Of course we will try our best with location, trying to keep cost to a minimum.