Horror Poster Analysis (3)

   This horror/ thriller mystery film was made in 2010. Its country of origin is the United States.
   The image is of a victim within the film, clearly in some sort of distress. The blurred and high tone image suggests a supernatural presence and hints the film could involve a supernatural force/ presence.
   The main colours on the poster are black, white and blue/green, which also supports the supernatural (almost sci-fi) sub-genre. The dominant black on the poster creates darkness around the victim and connotes danger. The black is seen surrounding the image, which symbolizes its being taken over. The black also shows the darkness in ways of fear and phobias. This is shown in the tagline: ‘fear lives in the dark’. There is less to be scared of in daylight, hence why the darkness is used dominantly.
   The font used for the word ‘vanishing’ is distorted and appears to be vanishing itself, this is again to connote the deep suffering of the women in the picture as well as the film’s narrative.
   The main target audience of this poster would be males as it follows the convention of a female in distress, however as with all psychological horrors a female audience could be attracted who identify with the main victim.