For Sure, It's Horror

After watching several opening sequences for the genre of social realism, I am entirely sure that I want to do one based on the horror genre.  I like this genre much more, and I think there are a lot of different things I could do with it.  However, I need to be careful in not making the opening sequence appear tacky and cheap, as it is very easy to fall into that trap. 

I now realise that my Fate/house of mirrors idea is fairly unfeasible, as that would involve using a lot of other props that I simply don't have access to.  I still like the idea of playing with mirrors, however I would need to do some further research into how I could use them effectively, and not make it look poorly done. 

Another Idea

I did have another idea for the opening sequence, which goes like this:

There is a teenage girl sitting at her dressing table, doing her make-up and listening to music when the phone from the living room rings.  She shouts down to ask her brother to answer it, as she is busy and he is the only other person home.  The phone continues ringing, and she shouts a little louder in case he didn't hear him.  The phone stops ringing so she continues getting ready, moving from the dressing table to the wardrobe to pick out her outfit.  She runs down stairs to see who was on the phone, but finds it hanging from cord.  She looks around the house, trying to find him, and the sequence ends with her at the main door letting out a scream because she's seen something outside.

As I was writing this idea, I was actually getting quite excited at the thought of filming this.  It would be much easier to do, as nothing especially special would be needed. 

And I'm rather happy because I got an A in my preliminary task! Whoop! :)

Idea!

So I had a really strange dream last night that has somehow morphed into an idea for an opening sequence.  It goes a little like this:
There is a family at a Fair, having fun, eating candy floss, enjoying the rides, usually family Fair stuff.  Then, the youngest child goes missing.  Nobodies really too worried at the moment, "how far could he have gone?".  So they begin to search, shouting out his name, asking people if they've seen him.  Cut to an hour later, it's starting to get a little dark and a few police officers on duty are beginning to call for back up when suddenly a blood-curling scream is heard.  It's the mother, she's in the house of mirrors.  The police rush in and find the mother on the floor, clutching her dead son.  On every mirror there is blood. 
shot is of a mask by the boy's body.

A Fair similar to this would be ideal

I was thinking this could be quite effective, as I could build on the idea of panic and suspense.  However, there would be a few problems with this.
One: Where would I get a fair? I would need to find where one is taking place and film there.  This could be tricky as it is winter, and not all Fair's would have a house of mirrors.

Two: The death of a small child would be quite difficult to film, not least because they would have to stay very still.  There is also the issue of showing dead children.  Although the idea would be good, I'm not sure I would feel 100% comfortable with it.