Target Audience

Target Audience

Within the Thriller genre, the target audience can vary. It can depend on the kind of thriller film.
But for a gernenic thriller film the target audience can be from 16-25 (most of them being students). Although there may be people outside of the target audience that watch Thriller films.
Also most of the main characters are young adults which can lead to the target audience being 16-25. I would expect males to be more intersted and drawn towards the Thriller genre, although females can be drawn to thriller films (e.g. Romantic Thrillers)

Crime Thrillers (such as Memento, Se7en) target mainly a mature audience because violence, sex and drugs can be involved in it. Theres are certain sensorships for kids, because they can't do those certain things a Crime Thriller would include (because it would be illegal).

Classic Thrillers (any Alfred Hitchcock film) are aimed at adults but are rated PG.
Thrillers that include horror elements, would aim at younger and more female based. Films by M. Night Shyamalan such as The Sixth Sense, Signs etc are close to the horror genre (and horror films target teenage girls, from my research I have found this out).