Moreover, the box office receipts of monster movies have long been the most reliable in the genre-film market. Traditions about the supernatural may vary from nation to nation, but people's fear of and fascination with the supernatural world are a constant. "No matter how bad a monster movie is," says Yeh, "there's a base audience of thrill-seekers who are going to see it."
而就類型片市場來說，鬼片的票房一向最穩定，雖然每個國家都有自己的靈異傳統，但人們對未知世界的畏懼與好奇卻是一致的，「再爛的鬼片，也會有一堆愛找刺激的基本觀眾會去看。」