The genre we have chosen for our Teaser Trailer is Horror. We are mainly focusing on a component to horror films which is commanly used, this area is psychological horror.
Definition of psychological horror:
Psychological horror is a subgenre of horror fiction that relies on character fears, guilt, beliefs, eerie sound effects, relevant music and emotional instability to build tension and further the plot.
Psychological horror uses real characters such as people killing people, not monsters or aliens killing the people in the story. These are normally very realistic. Location within the genre is normally very important in creating realsim for example a house in the middle of nowhere.
Films that use this genre are:
The Strangers
The Uninvited
Scream
Wolf Creek
The Others
Disturbia
Films that use this genre but also include gore which is not highly used in these films are:
Wrong Turn
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Hills have Eyes
House of Wax
Quarantine
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