. MY INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY HORROR TRAILERS

I chose to watch these horror trailers in my own time, so that I would be as prepared for the corse as possible. 

I noticed that in these contemporary trailers a lot of weight is placed on both blood and the supernatural. This tells me that my generation is a lot more tolerant of these themes in films and that they prefer them to most other types of Horror films. they all focus on the emotional experiences or torments of one particular character, normally the one you'd follow throughout the film. 

They also all include a menacing element to them (this can be expected as it is a Horror film, however this menacing element is normally in the form of a person who has either passed on or has mental issues. 

Death is obviously a theme in all of the trailers, and each consist of close ups of female characters (also known as the princess/prize according to Propp's theory) in a state of panic and fear - a convention of films of this nature. I have noticed, from the trailers I have watched there is always a female character who then acts conventionally as the victim we watch be tortured by some force, however we hope that she is saved either by herself or by a handsome man - in some cases she is the final girl (It refers to the last woman alive to confront the killer, supposedly the one left to tell the story.)

wikipedia definition of the final girl- a climax in which the last surviving member of the group, a girl or woman, either vanquishes the killer or gets away. According to Clover, the final girl in many of these works shares common characteristics: she is typically sexually unavailable or virginal, avoiding the vices of the victims (sex, illegal drug use, hedonistic lifestyle, etc.). She sometimes has a unisex name (e.g., Laurie, Sidney, Teddy, Billie, Georgie). Occasionally the final girl will have a shared history with the killer.