Genre Research... Horror

The first peice of research I am going to do, is that into the genre of my trailer. I found that a horror film is a piece of moving picture which inflicts fear, horror and terror into the veiwer, allowing them to experience anxiety and suspence to build. This is usually done through plots of death, the supernatural and mental illnesses. Within my trailer I am going to try and produce this anxiety and suspence through a plot of mental illness and death. However, unlike most conventional horror films I am not having a male play the murderer, instead I have chosen to use a female character. I am doing this as I think that for my horror trailer to stand out it has to brake certain conventions set by horror trailers seen in today's media. Some horror films which folow these conventions are films such as, 'Halloween', 'Saw' and 'The Omen'.