The human centipede- trailer analysis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjmhww7Mtk8

Release Date: 30^th April 2010
Genre: Horror
Cast: Dieter Laser, Akihiro Kitamura, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie
Director: Tom Six
Writers: Tom Six
Studio: IFC films

The trailer starts off with the two stereotypical girls about to go on a night out, all dressed up and not knowing what to expect. In the first scenes in the hotel room you think nothing of it but you get a sense something will happen as they don’t know where they’re really going hence the map reading. The next scene in the car is when you start to sense something bad is going to happen. You can get this feeling due to the weather being bad the car tire popping and not knowing where they are. These are just minor things compared to what they get themselves into by knocking on the stranger’s door. The films story line is literally about 1 crazy man in his remote house in Germany and wanted to make a real life human centipede and he does so by kidnapping and drugging random innocent people. None of the actors are well known they have all been in random films that haven’t really been a hit. But when we establish the main man (the psycho surgeon) Dieter Laser, straight away we see his face looking through the window and in my opinion him in that role was a brilliant choice due to the fact he has a very scary looking face. The two female actresses also haven’t been in many films but they still suit the good looking stereotypical girls in a horror film. The way the trailer lures in the audience is by using short jumpy shots mixed in with long shots of the main guy talking about what he’s going to do and how he’s going to do it. The pace of the trailer is very fast and short cut which gives the impression of a very exciting film full of gripping footage. The sounds is just dramatic instrumentals which go very well with the fast cuts. Whereas the dialogue is all very high in the mix and is just mainly shouting and the emotions portrayed are scared and anger. Towards the last 40 seconds of the trailer everything all starts to speed up and become more intense to keep the viewer on edge and they leave the trailer on a huge cliff hanger. The tag lines are all about the main guy and they just use brief but bold descriptions of him which will stick in the viewer’s mind.