The document discusses how horror movie posters use digital editing techniques to construct disturbing images that represent the supernatural nature of horrors. The posters feature people with cracks and missing teeth to convey fear and danger, and use piercing eye colors and gloomy backgrounds to contrast light colors and draw attention. Most posters feature women as the main image because women are traditionally seen as fragile, but some posters subvert this by depicting women as dangerous or using men as the primary focal point.

1. In these examples, all the images are
constructed digitally, they aren't usual
photo-shoots and placed on the poster.
Even though the ‘mother’ poster looks
like a normal image, if you look in detail
it shows cracks on her faces which have
been edited on. I believe they have
edited each image individually but with
the same principle, horrors are usually
associated with the supernatural and
extraordinary, which these images
represent; no teeth and replaced by
In the images of real people, the eyes are
defined in colour and sharpness. This is
done to show connotations of fear and
danger, this is along side the piercing
colours used, such as blue and green. You
could also argue that the designers have
presented them this way because the
light cheerful colours contrast the dark
and gloomy backgrounds which are
associated with horrors.
Additionally, in the majority of
posters, there is a female on the
front which is usually the main image,
this is often used because women are
seen as fragile compared to male
characters. However, it could be argued
that in the second and fourth poster,
the main characters in the image are
seen in a different light, the second
poster is a female however she is
presented dangerous and deadly and
the fourth poster, the main image is
male, which contrasts the usual fragile