The opening of The Strangers creates an intense and scary atmosphere through its dark soundtrack and red credits font, which may symbolize death. It establishes realism and fear by stating it is based on true events and providing disturbing facts about violence in America. The opening phone call from a boy who discovers a murder scene uses a horrifying soundtrack to heighten the terror in his voice as he calls the police.

1. 3 Film Openings

2. The Strangers
This film opening is what we want ours to be most like, especially the
credits. With the dark atmospheric soundtrack in the background it
creates an intense and scary scene. The font that is used is red and
this may symbolize death and horror as the film withholds. The font
itself is quite small and intense. Then a voice over is introduced and
says how it was based upon true events and this allows it to be
more realistic and scarier. Then it comes up with facts about
violence in America, this lets the viewer feel how it is set in the
modern day. This may mean the viewer is then in belief that the
upcoming events could happen to an everyday person. The the
sound track comes in as a phone call about a boy that has gone into
a house and found a murder scene and the sound of horror a
freight over takes the boys voice to the police.