Tuesday 19 April 2011

Textual Analysis Of Poster # 2.


This was a more conventional horror poster. Almost all the horror movie posters I came across featured a heavily manipulated image of mostly the villian or a supernatural entity. This poster is no different, the main photo on the poster is a very edited and manipulated image of a female. By the use of image editing softwares it is edited to be a very scary supernatural entity. However, upon closer inspection we find that it is not simply a heavily edited picture, it also contains photographs of a couple around the face area of the girl. It goes perfectly with the tag line "THE MOST TERRIFYING IMAGES ARE THE ONES THAT ARE REAL". With the help of these clues the audience can deduce that the horror movie has to do something with photographs and thus it captures their attention.

Upon closer inspection of the edited image I was able to figure out that it was not something out of the world. The picture was smeared and the right side of the face shows the skeleton of the girl while the left side of the face shows her burned and blurred out skin. Maybe this was one of the hints for the storyline of the movie, that the supernatural entity is actually a victim and the movie is about how she became this deformed creature.

Posted By Hassan

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