CULT THRILLER POSTER ANALYSIS

SIMILARITIES - USING NICK LACEY’S REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTS:Most of the posters use dark colours, mainly black, to show the genre of the film and give a hint at what the narrative might be. Most also have either just an image of one character, or one character in the centre which is focused on the most. This shows who the film is focused on. Having a dominant male and an innocent female is a theme that runs through most of the posters too, and most of the posters have the characters looking straight forward directly into the camera. The characters are mainly situated in the middle, and the settings for the films aren’t really given off in any of the posters. All of the posters have simple bold writing for the title, so that it stands out and shows the genre of film.

DIFFERENCES – USING NICK LACEY’S REPERTOIRE OF ELEMENTSThe poster for ‘Freaks’, ‘Sound of my Voice’ and ‘The Master’ all use bright colours, which differs from the usual dark colours. This could be to stand out and show that their film has a unique selling point. A few of the posters have more than one character in, possibly showing more than one main character in the films. The ‘Blue Steel’ poster has a scene from the film in the background, which is unique to this poster as this feature is not on any of the other cult film posters.