Inspirational Trailers

I have taken my inspiration from various psychological films that i have watched and researched to make up my own. Films such as The Ring, as in this film they trigger the spirit girl to return and potentially kill them by watching a video tape, where as mine the spirit is triggered by a quote. The possession idea has come from the films Paranormal Activity sequel and the The fact that they turn on each other has come from the film The Shining as the man in this film suddenly turns on his loved ones.

The Ring (2002)
















The Ring is a successful psychological horror film  which is about a video tape that when watched you get a phone call from a girl saying you are going to die in seven days. A young reporter named Rachel is investigating these events, but after she and her small son watch the tape, it becomes a race against time to find out why the tape is killing everyone and how it could be stopped. I took inspiration from this trailer as i like the fact that they basically summon the evil being by doing something in this case watching the tape. The trailers clips are slow paced to begin with which is a typical trope of this genre but they also get faster and faster throughout creating more intensity.

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)


This film is about a girl who starts filming everything in the house because she is suspicious of her younger brothers invisible friend, through this herself and her boyfriend discover strange occurrences such as silhouettes and cult symbols. This film applies to me as i have the idea of a silhouette as the spirit, this is because in most psychological horrors the evil being is not normally shown and if shown they are shown for a minimum amount of time. This trailer is slow paced which is a convention of the genre. the transition in this trailer is fuzzy and distorted lines, which links in with the film itself, however i have noticed that most of the transition used in horrors are distorted and not just jump cuts.

The Shining



This film is about a family who go to a hotel as the man has been given the job of winter caretaker, they then get snowed in, the man then gets told by a ghost to correct his wife and child and from there on tries to kill them. This film inspired me as it is about a man who turns on the people he cares about because of some ghost/spirit who is evil. This is part of my narrative as when the evil spirit possess the my characters it makes them turn on each other. The trailer is slow paced and then picks up speed throughout to build up tension.