Film Posters

In creating our own poster in order to advertise our horror teaser trailer, i have looked at various posters belonging to the horror genre in order to gain a sense of conventions in terms of film posters. This poster gives no information to what the film being advertised is however the image of the boy with a white face and black hair is automatically recognisable for me from the 2004 remake of the japanese film Ju-On, named now, The Grudge. I think perhaps even if people of our generation and an audience of our age haven't seen the actual film, the image will be reminiscent of them for the American psychological horror. The red '2' in the middle of the child's eye is connoting that this poster is advertising The Grudge 2, a sequal to the previous film, which already has a base target audience, in effect this poster is hoping for the same type of audience to see this film. The black, white and red all connote that of horror conventions which again automatically suggest the genre of the poster, with these colours generally occuring within posters such as these. The wide eye of the child is also an image reminiscent of such films as Psycho and Scream, where main characters on the front of posters and dvd's etc are seen to have alert eyes connoting that they have perhaps witnessed a horror.