The Amityville Horror

This horror film does follow many of the conventions of a horror movie. The genre of the film is easily identified through a large house, ridden with horrific past events that are kept within its walls. The image of the house at night with lightning slashing through the sky gives the impression of the house being a very frightening place to enter. The house is shown to have many levels, possibly with a cellar and an attic. The cellar is where the monster may stay to strike his victims and the cellar is where the secrets from the past are kept. The music in this trailer follows what would be expected of a horror. The music of the trailer doesn't begin until the new family moves into the house where the family was killed. The music is a very high pitched screachy sound that becomes more high pitched as the trailer comes to its close. Towards the end of the trailer the sounds of people singing in a choir develop in the background, seeming to make the situation the family are in to be more sinister. There is use of dialogue to tell the audience the background to the film. This is done as a news report by journalists, newsreaders and the ploice, where we find detailed information about what happened in the house. The name of the movie is only shown once right at the very end in large capital writing.