Friday The 13th Trailer Review

Name of Film: Friday The 13th

Year Released: 1980

Genre Of Trailer: Horror/Mystery

The plot of the trailer is that it goes through all of the murders in the film counting each one dies, until the thirteenth one when it ends with the name of the film Friday the 13th and telling you to go watch the film in the cinemas.

The good points of the trailer is that the music used in the trailer adds emphasis to the trailer itself building up the tension and adding a bit of mystery to how and why the thirteen murders occur during the plot of the film. It also doesn't give away much of the plot of the film which allows you to watch the trailer and get enticed to watch the film but unsure of what is going to actually happen throughout the film.

The bad aspects of the trailer is that it lacks any sort of horror in the trailer and is more like a mystery trailer so when people watch the trailer they will think  that it is a mystery trailer where in fact it will contain horror aspects that the audience may not enjoy. It also gives away who dies in the film so when the characters get introduced in the film you immediately know that they are about to die which kind of ruins the tense of seeing who dies in the film. There is also bad editing used at the end of the trailer which looks amateurish so  makes people think that the film is going to be amateurish overall which may lead to less people wanting to watch the film when it is shown in the cinemas or on DVD.

The score i would give this trailer is a four out of ten as it doesn't have any horror aspects in it what so ever and also looks like it was made by amateurs so isn't going to be as good as the other horror films like halloween or dawn of the dead.