Credits from Thriller films

From Hell - American Film  Cost $35 million to make  

Name	Time	Category
20th Century Fox	7 Seconds	Production Company
A News Corporation Company	18 Seconds	Production Company
“One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the twentieth century” Jack the Ripper – 1888	25 Seconds	A legend
Twentieth Century Fox Presents	1 minute	Production Company
From Hell	1 minute 37 seconds	Film Title

Shallow Grave - English Film  Cost $2.5 million to make 

Name	Time	Category
Film four International in association with the Glasgow film fund present a figment film.	10 Seconds	Production and Distribution Companies
Kerry Fox	1 Minute	Actress
Christopher Eccleston	1 Minute 3 seconds	Actor
Ewan McGregor	1 minute 6 seconds	Actor
Shallow Grave	1 minute 10 seconds	Film title

The main difference between English and American films is the budget they have to spend on making the films.

British film often tends to focus on real life situations – mainly working class people to show the harsh reality of life in urban Britain. They are usually problematic and tell it how it really is. They often include swearing and drug abuse also. However, in extreme contrast to this, some British films are fantasy, include made up locations and exotic storylines, for example Harry Potter, however, Harry Potter still includes hardship, bullying and the struggles of life. In British film, they tend to show each area of the country differently in according to reality, and represent their lifestyle in films.

American films generally focus on the ‘American dream’/fairy-tale ending storylines. American film companies tend to have large budgets in which to produce their films from, so more often than not, CGI, exotic locations and a large amount of advertising is often used. American films offer the audience a sense of escapism, because, unlike British film, American film does not show the harsh struggles of reality, rather quite the opposite. They are often referred to as ‘Blockbusters’ and have covered every genre there is to offer, unlike British film. American films get their funding from the production companies, often known as the ‘Big six’ – Universal, Warner Brothers, 20 th Century Fox, Paramount, Disney and Columbia – which own the majority of the smaller production companies too, for example, Universal Studios owns 67% of Working Title films.