Horror Trailer Analysis (Class): Toxic Avenger

Horror Trailer Analysis

Name of film: Toxic Avenger            Year Released: 1986

Genre of Trailer: Comedy horror      Your Mark: 6/10

The trailer starts off with a nerdy kid who gets bullied by all the ‘popular’ kids which becomes so bad to the point that he falls into toxic waste which causes him to turn into a monster and he becomes a hero and it shows clips of him beating up muggers.

The trailer has good edits one example is the scene where he changes into the monster. The whole thing about not seeing his face sucks the audience in and makes you want to go see the film. The narrative in the background clearly explains the story and gives the film more of a comedy look to it. There are parts that are restricted narration but you know that it will be shown the film.

Too much of the film was shown so you basically didn’t need to see the film and it was made it worse that the trailer was so long. Also the narrator says ‘you need to see the movie to see his face’ even though further into the trailer you see his face. It also lacked tension and suspense, which I think even though it’s a comedy horror it still needs the aspect of suspense to give more of a horror feel. I don’t think we would use any aspects of this horror trailer in our trailer.

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Horror Trailer Analysis (Class): Evil Dead (2013)

Horror Trailer Analysis

Name of Film: Evil Dead                   Year Released: 2013

Genre of trailer: Horror                     Your Mark: 9/10

The trailer starts off with 5 characters going into a Cabin and one of the characters snoops around and reads this passage and causes evil to happen in the Cabin and forest.

The trailer is good as it shows a good amount of the film to get you wanting to watch it, and it has a lot of gore. The quick editing shows more scary parts to the film, along with the music which is really suspenseful. The low key lighting gives the trailer a good effect to scare people and to get the audience sucked into to the trailer making them want to go see the film. The best feature of the trailer is the creepy cabin that makes the trailer seem a lot creepier. Parts of this trailer that we would use in our trailer would be the gore but a bit less extreme.

The part of the trailer that was bad was the fact that it didn’t give a reason to why the people were in the cabin.

Horror Trailer Analysis (Solo): Ed Gein (2000)

Horror Trailer Analysis

Name of film: Cloverfield      Year released: 2000

Genre of trailer: Horror, Sci-Fi    Your Mark: 7/10

At the start of the trailer there a party being filmed with a handheld camera suddenly there is a big explosion causing everyone to go outside and some weird creature which you don’t get to see is destroying the city.

I thought this was a good trailer as it doesn’t tell you too much of the story but it gives you a big moment at the end to make the audience want to go see it just to know what it is that is destroying the city. The use of the handheld camera makes the film seem more real and give the audience a sense that they are in the film. I wouldn’t use this type of camera style for my trailer because I don’t think the handheld camera works well with an action horror. For our trailer we are doing a scene trailer so this helps to give us an idea of how good a scene trailer must be.

The trailer is good for an action film but it doesn’t show many aspects of a horror film and shows more of the action.

Horror Trailer Analysis (Solo): Sinister (2012)

Horror Trailer Analysis

 Name of film: Sinister                     Year released: 2012

Genre of trailer: Horror                   Your Mark:  8/10

The trailer starts off by telling you that there has been a murder in this house just to give the audience an idea of why strange things are going to happen. It shows a happy family moving into the house where the murders were; things start to change when the dad finds a camera and a few home videos from the old owners of the house. The films show images of a weird creature that abducts children known as ‘Bughuul’.

This trailer shows all aspects of a good trailer as it doesn’t give you too much about the film but it gives you enough to make you want to watch it. It has a good soundtrack when creepy things start happening and then it builds up when the film has more action in it. I think it has good pacing as it goes from slow to fast then back to slow to keep building suspense and the camera movement is quick. There is a jump at the end which grabs the attention of the viewer making them want to go see the film even more just to find out what this creature is. What we could take from this and use in our trailer is there use of music because our horror trailer is going to have some action so using the sinister trailers idea of starting off with slow music then building it up would work well in our trailer.

A bad point from the trailer would be that I don’t think it focuses enough on the children even though the creature abducts them instead it focuses more on the dad and you don’t really get to see any of the other characters. In our horror trailer we will mainly focus on the main character Keith as that is the name of the film and mainly what it’s about but in sinister I think that they could have done it better by showing more of the other characters in the film.