3 Horror Movie Trailers That Made Us Go...Cool. We'll Use That!

Devil: The Official Trailer

What Josh and I liked about this trailer is how the use of a match on action cut from the lift to the CCTV footage in the security room of the lift and how there is a quick flash of their dead bodies and blood on the walls.


The trailer had inter-titles but no voiceover, which we prefered as it didn't disrupt the music or the actor's dialogue which is vital to this trailer. It broke up what was happening so that suspense could be built and we could be drawn in.


A typical horror convention of this trailer is the setting. The claustrotophobic entrapment styled environment adds to the horror as we know that they can not escape easily without harming themselves.






The Hills Have Eyes: Official Trailer

What Josh and I liked about this film is the fact that this film didn't give much of the plot away, just so much that we know that this family are isolated in the middle of nowhere but they are not alone. The use of still frames edited together at speed to create a montage effect, it influences or views of the film to be terrifying and fast-paced.


A convention of this trailer is the fact the audience in the cinema are put into a voyueristic stand point. We see the young woman in a bikini and we zoom and bit closer into the shot where we just see her from the chest up and that it stills and fades out, also when we see the hand stroke the other woman's face and we witness that dead on, so that attracts the target audience which are mainly teenagers.


A Horror convention that is used in this trailer is the character types. We have the oldest man who does seem the main protaganist who we want to idolise with, we have the woman who is sexualised, the young boy who again we could idolise with.
Obviously we have these monsters, who we don't fully see, but we know that they are not 'normal'.








Sorority Row: Official Trailer


A convention of this film that Josh and I like would be the production value that this film will have for teenage boys. The trailer shows college girls wearing next to nothing, this appeals to a sexualised teenage audience.
The horror convention that we like in this film is the sound. We like the fact that they use real songs for the soundtrack and how the song is cheery when the situation definatly is not. This is a good use of a contrapuntal soundtrack This repeats with the song at the end, when it is girls are singing and clapping and it echos and gently gets quieter. This is a convention that we would like to create in our horror movie trailer.