Generic Horror Movie Poster

The majority of horror movie posters feature one or two human or human like figures.

Generic horror movie poster. Codes and conventions. Or a 17 year old girl watching a horror movie on television in the group e student unemployed demographic. Recurring themes in horror movie posters include eyes skulls and hands.

Which is another parodical horror film uses exploits the generic storylines and archetypal characters in conventional horror films. The last generic convention which i have noticed from analysing the horror film posters is that numerous horror film posters include the website for the movie. There is cool artwork to look at as well as the face of a famous person or two.

Nobody wants the movie poster credits to dominate the attempt to sell the movie. Argento uses a range of vivid and saturated colours such as pinks blues reds and yellows to stimulate senses and emotions in the audience and to connote different. I grouped the most common layouts into ten tropes.

The movie poster credits font purposefully hides at the bottom there. His horror movie suspiria 1977 about a ballet school that is run by a cult of witches featured an effective use of colours due to the production design and cinematography. This gives the audience an option to find out more information about the film if they would like too.

Layered psd template of a movie poster.