Insidious Trailer Reveiw

Insidious Trailer Review

Name of Film: Insidious

Year released: 2011

Genre of trailer: psychological horror

Your mark after viewing: 6/10

What happened in the trailer?

The trailer shows what appears to be a normal family living there normal life together. We see a metronome being used and hear the noise which it creates setting a slow pace to the trailer.  The sound of parallel music disrupts the happy life of the family, as this seems to be the part of the trailer where all the bad things start to go wrong. What appears to be the mother in the film is shown to be walking into a room where a rocking horse is moving on its own accord, suggesting a ghostly presence. At this stage of the trailer we see certain family members lurking around the house acting cautious, as if something is in the house.  

Which positive, clever or interesting aspects do you think you could include in your own trailer? What generic features are fulfilled well?

I liked the way in which the metronome is being played in the background creating a slow and steady pace at the start of the trailer. At the end of the trailer a wide open mouth is being zoomed in to and sounds as if the person is screaming, I like this part of the trailer because it adds a jump scare at the end.  

Which aspects of the trailer did you think were unsuccessful, and would put off its target audience? How is it disappointing?

I didn’t like the pace of this trailer I thought the majority of it was slow and only picked up a little faster towards the end. I think if the trailer had a faster pace it would have been more effective to the genre of horror. I thought the scenes in the trailer where being dragged out revealing more of what is going to happen in the film.

I gave this trailer a 6/10 mainly because of the pace and how much of the film where shown in the trailer. I think it could have had more aspects from the genre checklist including a better glimpse of the slow moving monster/psycho serial killer.