My sinister trailer analysis.

2. SINISTER

3. OFFICIAL TRAILER
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtlAW-
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4. PLOT
• Novelist Ellison Osborne and his family move into a new house which has
had a family murdered in before they bought it, he uses the murder’s to
fuel his new book he is writing, as he goes up into his loft he discovers a
box filled with tape reels and a player, once he begins investigating the
tapes he discovers that they are the murders of the family who lived here
before, all by a man names Bogore, who eats the souls of children who
witness him in photo’s. As the plot deepens you discover that his children
wind up witnessing some of the tapes and photo’s and begin to act very
strangely in their home, drawing on the walls and other abnormal things,
days later Ellison decides that the tapes are doing too much damage to his
family and burns them, but discovers that they return back in his loft every
time they are destroyed.

5. Features of the trailer
• The first thing which the audience will notice
when the horror trailer begins is that there is a
young childs voice which instantly gives the
viewer a feeling of insecurity and vulnerability. It
also gives the viewer a sense of the setting in the
film, that the family have recently moved into a
new house which also gives a feeling of the
unknown. There is an equilibrium at the
beginning of the film as the atmosphere is calm
which is created by the slow editing and fades
between clips.

6. How the intensity escalates
The trailer begins to become scary when the
father of the family goes into the loft and
discovers a large box. After watching a film reel
where it appears the previous family are being
hanged, the film gradually becomes more scary
as the father investigates the story behind the
film tapes.

7. The Investigation
• Once he begins to investigate the tapes in his loft
he finds that they are all serial murders dating
back to the 60’s, all containing a symbol from a
man named Bogore who eats the souls of
children and lives in images of himself, children
who were exposed of the images would often
experience Bogore’s wrath. He then discovers his
children have seen the images and are being
attacked by Bogore too.

8. Ellison’s family
Once his children become exposed to Bogore’s
tapes he notices they are acting very strange,
drawing images on the wall and coming to stand
stills for numerous periods, he realises they have
seen the tapes too. Just before this happens in the
trailer the text “Nothing can save you” which gives
us the information that once you see the photos,
nothing can save you. He also has Bogore’s symbol
start to appear in blood all over his house.

9. End clips
• At the end of the trailer you hear the tape reel
turning over and over again in the background along
with clips of the family being attacked by someone,
with weapons such as axes and knives, also
numerous illustrations of death around the house
too, it then cuts to Ellison looking in his loft to find 5
children covered in paint, whispering to him as they
watch Bogore, then to be attacked by him, the
credits then show and leave the viewer on a cliff
hanger wanting to know more.