Film Title

We came up with our film title after research into current titles and relating them to film content to decide how psychological horrors fit themselves to titles.

Majority of titles were one word or a few shorter words that create a title of 3 or 4 syllables.

Repulsion(1965)

This psychological horror is about a young girl who is harrassed by the demons of her past.

This is relevant to our film and the title contains a short 3 syllable word.

Similar titles with 3 syllables include The Aura, Misery and Anamorph. All films represent a psychological horror and the 3 syllables appeals to me in creating a professional sounding film.

After that we also discovered that a descriptive word can be used to hint towards the film or have a contradictory idea through the title.





Frality(2001)

This is a horror about the relationship between brothers and their father who believe killing demons is right by God.

Frality means a weakness in a persons morals. This comes through the characters whilst remaining a short 3 syllable word.

Other similarities to this include Possession and Paranoia.

So when we thought about the film we felt that 'A Lack of Innocence' would be too long, and 'The Possessed' seemed to sum the film up in the wrong direction as it sounds like a group of people rather than the one girl. This encouraged us to cut out the 'The'. Following that we like the idea of Innocence from the first idea and thought that on it's own sounded punchy and mysterious.





When I researched it the closest I could find was 'The Innocents'(1961) which was a psychological horror that used deep focus moments and specific music and lighting to gain the interest of the audience. This film was nominated for 2 BAFTAs and generated $1.2m at the box office. The relevance and success of this similarly titled film suggested that it was a good idea.