Directors' Featurette

Evil Dead trailer (2013) Analysis

The narrative for evil dead is five friends head to a remote cabin, where the discovery of a Book of the Dead leads them to unwittingly summon up demons living in the nearby woods. The evil presence possesses them until only one is left to fight for survival. This is a conventional narrative location and structure to a horror film. The location of the woods and a remote cabin is conventional to the genre as it creepy and remote, meaning know one will be able to help them or gather help from others. The pacing of the trailer is typical for a action horror, collision cutting being used as well. The use of slow pacing at the start builds suspense, before the pace of the editing increases matching the parallel music. Other typical aspects is the characters of the antagonist, its conventional that a someone becomes possessed by an evil spirit it will be a young small (looks venerable) female. They use as this will be more shocking for the audience for a 'weak' female to become the strong killer. Another character that is typically seen and features in the red band trailer is the young, blonde attractive female (seen under the girl when she is cutting her tounge), stereotypically in horror films this character will be killed with a phallic symbol.
The cinematography used in the trailer is another typical aspect for the genre, consisting of many close ups, close ups are used to show the emotion of the character. Other conventional shots used are expressionist angles, the characters who are the victims are shot from a high angle, representing the power that has been put over them and the weakness in the situation.

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