Existing Horror Trailers

The one particular horror convention that I personally find the most scariest is children. The fact that a child is supposed to come across as innocent, in a horror movie you know that this fact immediately changes. All of the existing trailers that I have chosen to look at include children or some form of innocence.

"The Unborn" immediately strikes me as a scary trailer. At the beginning you can hear a child's voice coming from a baby monitor and to me a child's voice that has been distorted in some way definitely brings a scary feeling to the trailer. It is obvious from start to end who is the main protagonist and like most horror movies the protagonist is female. Throughout the trailer we continuously see glimpses of a little boy who has been made to look ghostly and from this the audience knows that he is the main villain of the film. A clear storyline has been shown through the trailer showing glimpses of some of the action scenes without letting the audience know the final outcome. Towards the end of the trailer the speed picks up and shorter clips are used showing fast action clips and reaction shots so that at the end the audience is left feeling unsatisfied and wanting to see the whole film.







"Orphan" isn't the typical sort of horror movie that I would call 'scary'. There are no ghosts or poltergeists etc. involved which I find are the most scary sort of horrors, but there is still a child being used who is obviously shown through the trailer to be the main villain of the film. At the beginning of the trailer there is a positive feeling and all seems well and when we first see the 'orphan' she is shown as well behaved, very polite, well dressed and completely innocent. This  is how I would like my trailer to start, with a happy and positive feeling and then gradually turning monstrous and scary, just as in the trailer for "Orphan".





"Dead Silence" doesn't include any children in the trailer but it does include a lot of dolls which I personally find really scary in a horror movie. The scary things about dolls is that their facial expressions never change and that really freaks me out in horror movies because you know they are going to do something sooner or later. Another thing that I like about this film is that their is a ritual of 'ripping out peoples tongues' once they are murdered which makes things even scarier when the villain has a sort of tradition. Also, there is a song or a rhyme about the villain 'Mary Shaw' which makes things even more scary.