Zombieland Trailer(HD)

This trailer can be seen as both comedy and horror, there are genre indicators for both comedy and horror in the trailer. One genre indicator that would suggest the film is a horror is the fact that in the trailer there is a lot of blood and violence shown. Blood is shown in most horror films, it would connote death and violence which are also shown. The fact that the main theme of the film is Zombies suggests that the film is a Horror genre.

The scene where one of the character tries to defend himself from a zombie by throwing a toilet roll at them, would suggest that there is a comedy aspect to the film, also the actors such as Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson are shown to be like able characters. The audience would warm to them. Them two actors would also be uniques selling points for the film as they both have good reputations as actors.

The non diegetic sound in the trailer is quite fast paced, which would show that the film could also be seen as an action, one of the main conventions of action films is fast paced music. The trailer also shows that the film would be released in 'OCTOBER'.