Trailer: The Conjuring

Horror trailers don't come any creepier than this one for James Wan's The Conjuring, a supernatural chiller based on real-life ghostbusters Ed and Lorraine Warren. It starts off chirpily enough with The Zombies' "Time of the Season" playing in the background, but then slowly builds into one terrific little scare that makes me hopeful this will one of the better horror pics to be released this year. Wan (Saw) also has the sequel to Insidious on the way, and if you haven't already seen that film, I recommend you get the DVD out, sit down with a bucket of popcorn late at night and be prepared to soil your pants...

Trailer: Insidious

It's been a while since we've had a genuinely scary horror movie - let's not count faux-doco-type sutff like Paranormal Activity - so here's hoping Saw director James Wan's return to horror will get under the skin in the way that several early rave reviews have already hinted at. Here's one from South by Southwest, and another from Toronto Film Fest.



The trailer suggests Paranormal Activity/Poltergeist/haunted house-style spookiness, maybe with a twist (oh wait, "it's not the house"!), and it looks like Wan's paying much attention to slow-burning, creepy camerawork and atmosphere, though the "flash-cuttiness" towards the end is a bit disconcerting (maybe just part of the trailer?). Bring on the chills...

Unrelated but: Josh Lucas and Patrick Wilson - I always get them mixed up.