Textual Analysis of a horror movie trailer I find interesting

I find The Devil's Rejects an interesting horror film, because it forces you to decide yourself who are the real bad guys, the Firefly family who torture and humiliate their victims, or the Sheriff who becomes a psycopath for what the family did to his brother, and then tortures the family when he catches them. this means that the bad guys become victims, and you have to decide who you want to sympathize, rather than it being laid oout for you.

The trailer follows a lot of cliches of a horror trailer, showing a lot of long clips that are interlinked with fades, which help to make the trailer flow without breaking the continuity of it. However, there are also a lot of quick cuts that create suspense and also help to make the trailer feel less slow than it initially feels.

Another cliche of a standard horror movie trailer is that there is little to no voice over throughout the whole of the trailer. This is carried through into the trailer here, as there is absolutely no voice over, just ambient sound at certain points and then diagetic sound from film clips. This can be seen as the easy way out, as a voice over into a horror trailer is a very daring and sometimes dangerous addition, as it can make or break the whole trailer, either making if feel overdone and cheesy, or ruining the whole effect of the trailer and making it feel cheap.

There also seems to be a theme of an appeal for the target audience, in this case the name of the director, Rob Zombie. This is helpful to the film's presence as it will make the film appealing to fans of Rob Zombie's music, as well as his movies. This helps to give the movie a much larger area of appeal than it would do if it didn't mention it was a Rob Zombie film.