Psychological Horror Titles Research

For research into our chosen genre of psychological horror I looked at two different films titles to give us inspiration to what our title could be and how it could look.

Shutter Island.

The name 'Shutter Island' doesn't really give much insight into what the film would be about so it allows the audience to think with the characters as the film goes on, leaving them in mystery and to think what could happen further into the the story's plot.

The colour of red and the scratchy, capitalised font f the title makes the audience look at it as it is eye catching compared to the dark colours of the rest of the title picture.

Se7en.

The name 'Se7en' also gives very little information away to the audience to keep them guessing but still tells the audience that the number seven may have something to do with the film. 

It also stands out in white against the black background to catch the audiences attention in the same way that shutter island's does also. The similar scratchy font gives a sense of uncertainty to the audience and is effective for that of a psychological horror film.

I believe that my research will be useful to us as a group when it comes to deciding on a title for our film opening as we may not want to give much away to the audience and these titles show us that by using one or two words we can do this and they also give us an idea of what the font could look like to have an appropriate effect on our audience.