The document analyzes several horror movie posters featuring girls as the main character. Common elements included disturbing close-up images of the girls, use of black and white or darker tones to set a frightening atmosphere, cryptic taglines to intrigue viewers, and references to supernatural elements like possession or exorcism to indicate the horror genre. These posters provided inspiration for creating a teaser poster with conventions like contrasting colors and unsettling main images to attract an audience.

1. Analysing Horror Posters

2. I have decided to analyse
posters which contain a girl
as the main character so it
can give us inspiration for
our own project poster.

3. Carrie (2013)

4. Tagline
The tagline is the main writing in this poster
as it is a teaser “you will know her name”
is horizontal over a close up of the girls
face which is covered in blood indicating
that this is going to be a horror.
It will also entice the audience as they
will want to know who she is and
why she is so important.

5. In the bottom left corner there is only a month
and a year “spring 2013” which indicates when
it will be in the cinemas however there is no
specific date which also adds to the teaser style.

6. The Last Exorcism (2011)

7. Main Image
The Poster itself is simple and not overly
complicated which is effective as this draws
the audience to the disturbing main image of
the girl. She has been edited black and white
which denotes the contrast of her personality
(white being good and black being evil).
There is a cross above the girl which denotes
that there is a large aspect of religion within
the movie and it plays a large part in exorcisms. The girl is in a
distorted shape which shows how the demon is controlling her
body. The blood on her dress stands out in the black and white
contrast which has connotations of violence and danger for the
girl.

8. Tagline
The use of the word 'him' suggests that we
should already know who 'he' is making the
poster even more strange and creepy. It also
makes the audience question whether it is
referring to god, or the devil.

9. Website Link
Also, by having a website link it can attract more
attention as people will go on the internet and
can watch the trailer or buy merchandise.

10. The Possession (2012)

11. Main Image
The main image itself will disturb the
audience as it is only a little girl who is
being attacked by a hand which has
gruesomely appeared from her mouth,
this will entice the audience as it is
unusual and captures the audiences
attention because of the sickening
image. This also shows connotations
of the supernatural which hints at
what this movie will be about. The
colour scheme is purposely darker
tones to indicate a dark
presence/atmosphere and the colour
black is usually associated with fear.

12. Tagline and Title
The movie title “the possession” indicated what
genre the movie is and the audience now
understand why there is a hand in the girls
mouth. The tagline “darkness lives inside” also
denotes that this girl is being possessed by the
evil that is “living inside of her”

13. Sinister (2012)

14. Main Image
The background of the poster is a wall, crackling and bordered with
darkness. This gives a spooky abandoned appearance. The image
shows a little girl in her pyjamas, smearing blood on the wall as she
walks. Her face is hidden, making us wonder if she is just a regular
child or a possessed demon like character and teases the audience
who will se the movie as they will want to know who she is. The drips
of blood present an evil face, which we can assume is the face of evil
within the film and also adds the to the tagline “when you see him”
which will give the audience a fright when they see the face. She has
bare feet which connotes her vulnerability. We can also see old video
tapes on the floor which are covered in blood, this denotes that the
films have an important role within the film.

15. Advertisement
They have also included advertisement “from the
producer of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and INSIDIOUS”
which is a good selling point as Paranormal activity was
a huge success and this will make people want to see
this film because it will be just as good as paranormal
activity.

16. These posters have given me ideas for my own teaser
poster with conventions of horror such as colour
schemes of black, grey, red and possibly white as well as
main images angles, props and editing. The poster that I
will most likely base my own on is “sinister” as I like the
use of simple dull colours and the contrast of the red
which stands out. This could be effective for my poster
as I can grey scale all the surroundings except for the girl
and the doll which will catch the audiences attention.