![]() The trailer captured my interest immediately and still sticks with me today. Over a decade later, the graphics are obviously not quite up to par with today’s offerings, and the trailer didn’t really represent how Dead Island actually felt to play, but that’s all beside the point. It truly runs viewers through a gauntlet of emotions. Then, it ends with a happy family waving at the camera while on a picture-perfect vacation. ![]() The desperation is of the family is palpable. You can feel the parents’ emotions as they fend off zombies from their recently-bitten daughter. You get a reverse trailer of what led the girl to her demise intertwined with what happened initially. Then, as soon as your mind processes that, zombie snarls cut through the music, before throwing you into a reversed montage of the events that led to the child lying in the grass. It starts with some hauntingly beautiful piano and violin before revealing a dead child lying in the grass. The Dead Island trailer just hit all the right notes.
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