In this blog post i will be looking into the poster for the movie the last exorcism. By doing this I can greater understanding of the typical conventions of a movie poster so that when i create my own i will know what to include and what some of the good things are to include.
One thing that stuck out to me on this poster was its use of colour. The colours in the poster seem to be desaturated and plain with the poster as a whole using dull and boring colours such as grey for example. This is a stray from the typical uses of colour in horror poster as normally a horror poster would include very strong and impactful colours like black or red. However these colours are very effective as they can highlight death, horror and the feeling or being pulled away from things that a good.
Another aspect of the poster is the tagline. Situated just above the name of the film so that the audience can see the tagline. I really liked the tagline in this poster "if you believe in God you must believe in the devil". This is a really effective tagline as it plays on religious stereotypes that can bring more fear to a film as religious things can be very close to peoples hearts so to play on them or even make them question what they believe can be even more effective and for a poster to do this just with two lines is something I really like because it offers the audience something mysterious and adds suspense to the poster and the film as the audience are left guessing what can happen next. One thing that I noticed about this poster was that it left it out the usual credits at the bottom. I found this effective as for me it gave it a sense of the poster being real and that the events of the movie are infact real so the audience wont need to know about the cast because of it being real. The text of the main title of the film is situated near the bottom of the page in bold black grunge writing making the poster seem more creepy and offering a more effective poster. The last word in the film is already enough to offer many connotations of the horror genre as exorcism already tells the audience what they can expect from the movie and know that inside the movie there is going to be some scary scenes.
The poster consists of one main image. The image show a single girl in old clothes distorted in a creepy manner. The image of the poster links to its title as it is clear that the girl is possessed and will need an exorcism. The way that the girl is positioned makes the poster even more gripping as it looks and feels unique and instantly grabs the viewers attention to see what is going on.
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