Poster Research

Poster Research

Tormented Poster

 The poster for the film tormented shows darkness with the black background and red font.  The main character is stood out as he is in the middle of the poster and also he is the only one alive staring at the camera.  He is also portrayed as the sex attraction as he is without a top.  The poster insinuates that there will be a lot of death with a lot of people lying dead on top of each other.   It also has some sort of tagline saying ‘a new class of terror’.  This could be seen as a play of words, as it has two different meanings. The first is that there is a new school class that are horrible and you could look at them in terror or the other meaning is that the film has a new like level of terror.  

What Lies Beneath poster

This poster is brighter than most horror posters. The background is white and contradicts the conventional horror film poster. However the colour does in a way show elements of horror as it could signal a ghostly atmosphere, which is relevant to my trailer.  Also, there is an image of a hand hanging out a bath tub which gives it the creepy look.  It also has some sort of tag line or tag lines in this films case.  It gives some information about the film and also attracts the audience as it makes them interested and wanting to see what happens. This poster, unlike the ‘Tormented’ poster, has the main actors at the top of the poster. This is to attract the audience by letting them know the big green light actors that are in this film.