Copied Ideas

To make our trailer we have taken ideas from many famous horror film. This is because they have proved very sucessful and have become conventions of the modern horror movie. These are some of the ideas we reused;

The character of Emily, in our trailer, is similar to the character of Si

dney in the 1996 film, Scream. Sidney is adventurous, brave and tough. In the films she is always the last person standing. These are all characteristic that we repeated in the Emily. She is seen in the trailer fighting back.

Being trapped in an abandoned building is a very commonly used plot line in horror movies. When we were coming up with our story idea we had the style of the film House Of Wax in mind. The theater and the wax museum in the film are very similar in architecture and colour scheme. We wanted to recreate the same atmosphere.

The killer in our trailer is very similar to the killer in the film Halloween. They both wear white masks and carry a large carving knife. Using a mask is a commonly used convention in horror movies. It adds a large amount of mystery to the killer and the expressionless faces make them a lot more sinister.