Horror film names

I decided to research into some horror film names to see which were succesful and which ones we really liked so this could help us to think of a film name that would be really strong and outstanding that will strike the audience into wanting to find out more about it.
Here are a list of film names that are really powerful:

1. Sinister - This is a short yet effective name. One word named films are often striking and imply that they depict a lot. The word 'sinister' is a negative adjective and has the connotation of being dark. It's associated with people who have something quite shady about them or actions that are threatening or portend evil of some kind. I really like this idea of having a one word title with a word that's relevant to the genre and also striking to the audience.
 
2. The excorcism of Emily Rose- I particularly like the innocence surrounding this title. Including a young girls name next to the word exorcism is almost like a binary opposition. It's almost as though it's good vs evil, the young girl being overpowered by evil sources. As we're supposed to have a young girl in our film, we could use this kind of method to create a poweful title that will be quite shocking yet hooking.

3. Insidious - Once again, as with Sinister this film has only a single word title. Insidious has the meaning of proceeding gradually but in a harmful way. This also has a dark mysterious meaning to it, and that it's proceeding to mean the build up in the story will be harmful to the characters.

4. Halloween - Another 80's classic. Halloween is the 'festival of the dead' where every year on October 31st people dress up in scary outfits, carve pumpkins and do anything scary and because of this the fact a film was named after it it's now instantly associated with anything horror related.


9. Eden Lake - I particularly like that the film is named after the place that it was shot in. It's still powerful as it's impyling to the audience that this place has some mystery and secrets behind it and almost personifiying it. We could consider this when mind mapping our ideas as our location for our film trailer is set in an abandoned holiday centre, which used to be a place of happiness and now is riddled with debris and just left as it was.