Tagline Choices
Over time as movie audiences advanced, the ad campaigns launched by the studios improved too. The taglines added to the film trailer became a simple way of expressing the genre and theme in the film or appeal of it.
Now the film tagline has evolved into a modern art form which has been acknowledged for its use of humour, hyperbole, irony and understatement. A tagline is created to hook the audience or give them a brief plot of the film to make them want to watch it.
Now the film tagline has evolved into a modern art form which has been acknowledged for its use of humour, hyperbole, irony and understatement. A tagline is created to hook the audience or give them a brief plot of the film to make them want to watch it.
Here are some of our taglines we created to work from:
1) He will take over your soul.
2) You will be trapped.
3) Once you've said it, there's no turning back.
4) His reflection will destroy your life.
5) His past will destroy you.
6) Trust will deceive you.
7) Your mind will be seized.
8) He killed his family. Yours will be next.
9) His past will haunt you.
10) His mind will terminate yours.
1) He will take over your soul.
2) You will be trapped.
3) Once you've said it, there's no turning back.
4) His reflection will destroy your life.
5) His past will destroy you.
6) Trust will deceive you.
7) Your mind will be seized.
8) He killed his family. Yours will be next.
9) His past will haunt you.
10) His mind will terminate yours.
Below are some examples of taglines from horror films:
1) The Woman in Black: 'Do you believe in ghosts?'
2) The Last Exorcism: 'Believe in him'
3) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 'Who will survive and what will be left of them?'
4) Friday the 13th: 'You’ll wish it were only a nightmare.'
5) The Grudge: 'It never forgives. It never forgets.'
1) The Woman in Black: 'Do you believe in ghosts?'
2) The Last Exorcism: 'Believe in him'
3) The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: 'Who will survive and what will be left of them?'
4) Friday the 13th: 'You’ll wish it were only a nightmare.'
5) The Grudge: 'It never forgives. It never forgets.'
Our top three taglines are 'Trust will deceive you', 'Your mind will be seized' and 'His past will haunt you.'
'Trust will deceive you' is relevant to our storyline as Mr Cullen murdered his wife and daughter who would have trusted him as a husband and father. He betrayed their trust by lying to them and murdering them. This also links to the possession of Holly by Mr Cullen because he has possessed her to murder her friends in the holiday home which used to be the Cullen family's home. Holly's friends have trust in her however she has been made to murder them so it looks as if she has betrayed their trust.
'Your mind will be seized' represents how Holly's mind has been taken hold of suddenly and forcibly by Mr Cullen; she has no control over her own body anymore so she can't prevent herself from murdering her friends, all power is in Mr Cullen's hands. Whoever's body he takes over they will not be in control anymore.
'His past will haunt you' connects to the storyline and how Mr Cullen wants his victims to be murdered; he makes Holly murder Hannah by drowning her in the kitchen sink and this is his past of him drowning his wife haunting Hannah. When Mr Cullen possesses Holly to murder Ffion in the bathroom this is his past of his daughters death haunting Ffion. Mr Cullen's suicide haunts Ryan as Holly murders him by hanging him which links to Mr Cullen's suicide as he hung himself.
'Trust will deceive you' is relevant to our storyline as Mr Cullen murdered his wife and daughter who would have trusted him as a husband and father. He betrayed their trust by lying to them and murdering them. This also links to the possession of Holly by Mr Cullen because he has possessed her to murder her friends in the holiday home which used to be the Cullen family's home. Holly's friends have trust in her however she has been made to murder them so it looks as if she has betrayed their trust.
'Your mind will be seized' represents how Holly's mind has been taken hold of suddenly and forcibly by Mr Cullen; she has no control over her own body anymore so she can't prevent herself from murdering her friends, all power is in Mr Cullen's hands. Whoever's body he takes over they will not be in control anymore.
'His past will haunt you' connects to the storyline and how Mr Cullen wants his victims to be murdered; he makes Holly murder Hannah by drowning her in the kitchen sink and this is his past of him drowning his wife haunting Hannah. When Mr Cullen possesses Holly to murder Ffion in the bathroom this is his past of his daughters death haunting Ffion. Mr Cullen's suicide haunts Ryan as Holly murders him by hanging him which links to Mr Cullen's suicide as he hung himself.