Influences

What films have influenced your ideas? The genre of our film is a psychological thriller we have been influenced by different thriller films. one of the films that influenced our group was 'When a stranger calls' because the film based on a well known legend which is about a babysitter that gets a mysterious phone call and starts to get stalked little does she know's the phone calls are coming from inside the house. We used this idea because it is well known so we would get a big target audience however we have made it a modern version with it own climax twist to make it relate to the people of the present day. The best films are from remakes. Another good thriller that had an influence to our trailer is 'Perfect Stranger'. This film is about a reporter that investigates a murder case and starts following around a big business man trying to get information. The film has a twist that gets the audience thinking,this gave us the idea to have a twist and a stalker to make it more interesting. Plus we find out that the women that is investigating is actually the killer and by doing this she is trying to hide herself. For the horror effect we watched many differnt trailers to see how the killer was presented and also to see how they had used mise en scene and sound to create the fear factor. Saw was of of the film that used the genre of horror in a different conventional way. This film used in a game process which the victim can end up killing themselves. This is different from conventional horrors because we know who's the killer but he isn't actually killing them he just puts them into a situation.