Transcript Body Counts in Horror Movies

Body Counts:
Action vs. Horror
Aaron Locke
Why?
• Often, horror movies get a bad wrap
for being too violent.
• In reality, it is action movies that
actually have much higher death
tolls.
• Due to an extensive movie collection,
I decided to take this on.
How do you count bodies?
• What to count:
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A dead body
A mortal hit
Someone dies on screen
A scene shown and then at the last second, cuts away.
• What not to count:
– Unspecified piles or strewn bodies UNLESS they are clear and
countable
– Animals
– Implied kills
Data Table
Movie Title
Genre
# of Deaths
Running Time
(minutes)
House on Haunted
Hill
Horror
30
93
My Bloody Valentine
(2009)
Horror
24
101
Nightmare on Elm
Street (1984)
Horror
4
91
The Omen (2006)
Horror
8
110
Grindhouse: Death
Proof
Horror
8
95
Underworld
Action
58
121
King Kong
Action
23
187
Troy
Action
572
163
The Dark Knight
Action
36
152
Pearl Harbor
Action
153
183
Data Table (cont.)
Movie Title
Genre
# of Deaths
Running Time
Silence of the
Lambs
Horror
8
118
Friday the 13th
(2009)
Horror
14
97
Sweeney Todd
Horror
12
116
Snakes on a Plane
(2006)
Action
31
105
Cloverfield
Action
27
85
Histogram
Horror vs Action Movie Deaths
1
2
3
Number of Deaths
700
4
600
5
500
6
400
7
300
8
200
9
100
10
0
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2
3
4
5
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9
10 11 12 13 14 15
Type of Movie
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14
Red indicates an action movie. Blue indicates a horror movie.
Action Movie Histogram
Deaths
Deaths in
in Action
Action Movies
Movies
Action - Troy
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2
3
4
Movie Movie
Action Cloverfield
Series1
Action - The Dark Knight
Action Pearl
0
Action - King Kong
Action Troy
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300
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200
0
100
Action Underworld
Deaths
Deaths
Action - Underworld
5
Action - Pearl Harbor
Action - Snakes on a
6 Plane 7
Action - Cloverfield
Horror Movie Histogram
Deaths in Horror Movies
700
600
Deaths
500
400
Series1
300
200
100
0
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Movie
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Stem & Leaf
Stem
Leaf
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3 4 7
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0 1 6
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3
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0
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57
3
Circle Graph
Horror Movies vs. Action Movies
Action Movie Deaths
Horror Movie Deaths
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Number
of
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Movies
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Deaths
Dot Plot
Blue Dots represent deaths in Horror Movies
Red Dots represent deaths in Action Movies
**the data point from Troy was removed
120
140
160
Box Plot
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
a
median
q1
min
max
q3
Group Data Chart
Class Boundaries
Frequency
Relative
Frequency
Midpoint
Cumulative
Frequency
1-99
13
.866
49.5
13
100-199
1
.066
149.5
14
200-299
0
0.0
249.5
14
300-399
0
0.0
349.5
14
400-499
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0.0
449.5
14
500-599
1
.066
549.5
15
Measures of Center
FOR ALL DATA
• Mode:
• Median:
• Mean:
8
24
67.2
FOR HORROR MOVIES
• Mode:
8
• Median:
10
• Mean:
13.5
FOR ACTION MOVIES
• Mode:
None
• Median:
29
• Mean:
150
1Q:
8
3Q:
36
Max:
573
Min:
4
Range: 569
Dispersion
• Range: 568
• Standard Deviation: 144.36
• Outlier Analysis
– IQR = 28
– Fences = -34 and 78
– According to my outlier analysis, two
points [153, 572] are outliers.
Cheb/Empirical Rule
• The graphs show that the data does
not quite follow the rule:
– 75% is within 2 deviations
– 89% is within 3 standard
Z-Scores
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153
572
-.437
-.410
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-.382
-.368
-.306
-.299
-.278
-.257
-.250
-.216
-.063
.594
3.496
• Throughout this project, the
graphs clearly demonstrated a
higher amount of deaths/body
count in movies classified as
“action”.
• Movies categorized as horror
had significantly less deaths.
• The data is right-skewed.
Distribution
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Series1
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4
2
0
0-99
100199
200299
300399
400499
500599
To Conclude...
• Horror movies do, in fact, have less
deaths than action movies.
• Despite this truth being shown
throughout the data, is doesn’t prove
that horror movies are less violent.
• Yes, there are less deaths in horror
movies, but they are much different.