Horror reviewsThere are several sources in which someone can use for finding out reviews of films, with the most popular being newspapers, magazines and the internet. The most reliable source we found on the internet was the website 'Metacritic'. We used this to find reviews of horror films in the sub-genre of paranormal. 'Metacritic' is reliable because it stores reviews from several professional, but also amateur critiques and totals the overall scores out of 100. Generally, if the score on a film is in green, it has passed several reviews from professionals and cinema-goers as recommendable. We also looked at a similar site called 'Rotten Tomatoes'
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The woman in black
'The Woman in Black' had an overall Metascore of 62 with an overall use score of 6.6.
Blair witch project
One of the highest scoring supernatural films that we found was the 1999 hit 'The Blair Witch Project'. It scored highly from both users and critics alike.
Paranormal activity
'Paranormal Activity had a Metascore of 68 and a 'Rotten Tomatoes' score of 82% and 56% from the audience.
the sixth sense
'The Sixth Sense' had a Metascore of 64 and a 'Rotten Tomatoes' score of 85% and 87% with the audience.
Sinister
Sinister is in the same subgenre as our horror trailer and got a metascore of 53, but the users rated it much higher at 72. Critics rated it very highly, giving it ratings of 80 and above. Rotten tomato rated it at 64.
(Tom Harvey)