Horror Film Poster Conventions
Typical conventions which appear on a Horror film poster tend to be mainly the idea of eyes, either eyes with no life in them or something crawling out of the eye, which is seen in the poster above, as a someone/ something's finger tips are coming out of the eye suggesting this person has an inner being. Another convention is screaming on the front cover, suggesting something within the film is horrifying making the audience wonder what is so terrifying therefor making them want to see it. The stereotypical colour scheme for a horror poster is dark gloomy colours such as, black, grey and red as all connote horror. A way of informing the audience that the film will contain gore and violence is displaying a weapon on the poster, such as a blade of some sort or another weapon but they don't tend to be guns as that doesn't associate itself with a gory death. The type of font used tends to be clear to see and blocky unlike swirly writing which you may find on a romance poster.
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