Trailer and Horror conventions of 'The Grudge 2'

Me and my classmate Becci finally looked at the trailer for The Grudge 2.

Trailer Conventions. Within this trailer, the trailer sets out to captivate the audience with its long pauses and jumpy clips. The inter-titles of this trailer relate really well the idea of the film. Within the inter-titles, hair flicks across the screen before the words appear, and this could relate to the idea of the "grudge" as she is shown through small clips in the film with long hair.  The genre of this film is again implied very well as we can clearly understand that the trailer is horror themed. Sarah Michelle Gellar is also a main star of this trailer, which relates to the production values of the film as she was the lead actress in Buffy The Vampire Slayer.


Horror Conventions. The settings within this trailer contain abandoned houses, long white corridors and hospitals. These are all typical horror settings, which seem to be isolated from anything else, implying and creating a spooky effect. At the beginning of the trailer we just hear speech from the film which gives us an insight to the story plot. We also hear very high pitched scratching noises, and in opposition low sounds which create suspension and also are quite jumpy within the trailer. We also see many extreme close-ups within this trailer, in particular the eye is a main focal point.


We really liked this trailer in the way that it used light. We liked how it have very bright scenes, looking down corridors, and then how suddenly the "grudge" appeared alongside high pitched noises which seemed very jumpy! We also liked the cuts through the beginning of the trailer, how images of eyes appeared, whilst the camera was zooming in towards the female laying on the hospital bed.