Amazon
Amazon is one of the worlds leading online retailers meaning any sales results found on the site could be safely assumed to be the industry standard. Here follows the top ten best selling horror features according to Amazon's sales results; it is worth noting that I have removed several results due to them showing up in the horror section on account of Amazon's poor genre recognition and multiple renditions of the same movie. In particular I will be removing comedy-horror and box-sets/collections.
Number One: THE CONJURING (2013)
Number Two: WORLD WAR Z (2013)
Number Three: THE PURGE:ANARCHY (2014)
Number Four: HANSEL AND GRETEL:WITCH HUNTERS (2013)
Number Five: THE WOMAN IN BLACK (2012)
Number Six: PROMETHEUS (2012)
Number Seven: THE SHINING (1980)
Number Eight: JAWS (1975)
Number Nine: SINISTER (2012)
Number Ten: OCULUS (2014)
Supernatural horror forms the lion's share of this list with four supernatural films appearing on this list including the top spot with THE CONJURING (2013). Though at first this may seem damning for the prospective sales of our feature it is worth noting that the list also contains two slashers, highest ranked being THE PURGE:ANARCHY (2014) at number three.This suggests that, if done well, a slasher such as ours could be a prosperous venture. D.S