In 'The Caller' trailer, a lot of dark lighting is used which makes it more effective as it's easier for things to pop up and scare an audience. The titles that appear throughout the trailer are in the colour red which connotes danger and is the colour of blood. The first image shown in the trailer was a telephone which links in with the title of the film. This gives an indication to the audience that from the title and the phone being the first thing we see, that the phone will play an important role in the movie. In the trailer an iconography that was used were weapons, knives were seen. In horror films the villain typically tends to be a male but in this trailer it seems as though the villain is a woman which subverts from the typical villain in a horror.
I've made a collage of pictures from the trailer that stood out to me and made me think this made a good trailer. The first image was a 1 second clip of a girl with blood running down her eyes, when the main girl was sleeping on the train. The image is effective as it was barely seen in the trailer and came in a flash sequence. She's crying blood which already presents a messed up situation arising in the trailer. She looks scared and this makes the audience question who this girl is and what her role in the movie is. Iconography used such as blood is shown which is a key element of the horror genre. In the second image on the top row, the main character is digging up something and its set in the night time. Night time settings is a typical convention shown in horror films as it's more scary. The image below shows scars on her body which leaves the question to the audience about what has happened to her. The image below that shows a finger in a jar, this illustrates something bad has happened to someone in the movie as body parts are being removed. The last image at the bottom shows the main character being attacked by a big weapon, this was effective in showing the main girl is being attacked by an unknown assailant.
The movie poster I have incorporated in the collage. The title has a red shadow on it which looks quite ghostly and could give off a supernatural feel of the movie. The colour red is representative of the colour of blood and may be a warning that danger is present in the movie. The slogan 'some calls are best left unanswered' illustrates a phone call will lead to something with bad consequences. The line makes the audience want to know what was said on this phone call. A hand is coming out of the wall, the identity of this person is unknown and it's near the phone which could show a link between the phone and the person who is calling. The brick walls have blood around it which shows that maybe inside the wall there are dead bodies or its the scene where people have died. It's a very ambiguous movie poster as there are a lot of questions that could be asked about it. 
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