Horror Teaser Trailers - The Strangers

After deciding to do a paradoy of horror films in our teaser trailer, a film which we would think of spoofing would be the 2008 American Psychological horror and thriller, The Strangers. The film revolves around a young couple who is terrorized by three masked assailants, who break into the remote summer home in which they are staying and damage all means of escape.
This teaser trailer is 1 minute and 15 seconds long which could be said to be quite lengthy for a trailer of this kind. However its contents make the plot knowable yet hold back on who the perpatrators of hassling the two main characters. As an american horror film the trailer seems predictable with the conventional use of black and quick jump shots in which many of the events seem blurred and incomprehensible. The teaser trailer begins with an old fashioned style music with what appears to be old slides of photos with conventional American houses - connoting an almost triviality to the beginning of the trailer, which could initially misguide the audience as to what genre the film is. The music then changes and becomes more sinister with the slide show of photos fading to a completely black screen. Various point of view shots automatically suggest someone or something is watching the main characters, which sets up a dramatic function to the teaser trailer. The main convention that The Strangers is memorable for is the masked terrorizers, who wear white/brown sacks over their heads in order to create an enigma and psychological mystery as to who these people are. As the trailer progresses, a continous scream can be heard as the jump shots conflict one another as if the film has been screened as a slide show of pictures, continuing the nostalgic older era from the start. The rise and fall convention is apparent here as various events in the plot lead to a black screen, and then the main female character trying to escape.

In our group, we have thought about including a parody of The Strangers where we would mock the sacks that the people wear over their heads, perhaps putting funny faces on them in order to create a less psychological thriller type of trailer. We obviously will develope our ideas later in order to create a teaser trailer paraody of horror films.