Trailer Analysis

The opening of the 'Evil Dead' trailer (1982), starts in utter darkness with just a dark black shot; this makes the audience curious about what is happening and leaves them witha false sense of security. However, the only sound you can hear is a tape recorded voice of an old man, which in itsself is creepy, he is acting as if a comentator telling the audience what is happening, even though we can't see anything, making us want to view what he is speaking even more, building up tension and fear- during his speech you can hear a heart beat. To the audience this builds up fear, - the heart beat is at a steady pace, this could be because of fear or nerves, the audience's hearts would also be beating at the same sort of pace as the sound in trailer - they are in blackness listening to the gruesome things an old man is saying on a tape recorder. The man in his speech uses typical 'horror' language, making the speech more terrifying, for example he uses words like "dark shadows moving in the woods", "ressurrected" and "come calling... for me", all of these sayings are very spooky. Then it goes quiet, and the film title comes forward from the back and into the audience's face in clear bold white letters saying "Evil Dead".This makes the audience sudden;yaware of what they are watching- when the title comes hurtling towards the front of the screen, creepy eerie music starts playing, quite fast-paced and in-your-face sort of music- violins and trumpets , building up suspense and fear in the audience.