Existing Horror Trailers

 "Paranormal Activity" has a very striking trailer because of its strong sence of hand held camera work. The whole trailer engages the audience with the film and makes them feel part of it through the way that its filmed. The most scary things on Paranormal activity are also the most simple of things, such as lights swaying and bed sheets moving, doors shutting by themselfs. These are all really doable effects and are things i would like to include on my horror film trailer, another major thing i would like to include which is a massive part of Paranormal activity is hand held and manual security cameras.

"Grave Encounters" has a really eary feel throughout because of how there is lots of silence and its all hand held camera work. The actors seem genuinely scared and this makes the viewer believe that the things happening inside this hospital actually happened. There is also a very scary bit at the end where a woman's face goes demonic as shown above on the preview of the trailer, This gives a big shock factor to the audience while watching and makes them want to go and watch it even more. Its more impacting because throughout there is no real evidence of CGI, and then we suddenly see some right at the end of the trailer.




"Atrocious" is very similar to the other two trailers above accept from there is a totally different story line, in this case it is about and old murder and the ghost coming back to the house to haunt people. There is a maze in the garden and this is the centre piece of the bad things happening, this is a really good aspect to the trailer because the thought of being lost in a maze is very frightening because it gives a feel of clostrephobia. Another frightening thing about the Atrocious trailer is the eyes on the girl when she gets possessed, because the black pupils really stand out and give a scare.