The Skeleton Key Film Poster

As our group are looking towards doing a horror film genre, I have decided to start looking at not only parts of horror films to analyse, but to also look at film posters. For my first example I have chosen to analyse 'The Skeleton Key' poster. We can tell this film is a horror/ thriller from looking at it. First the colour of the picture is quite dull. Using dark colours it makes it more apperent that the film is quite grim. There is little on the poster apart from the title of the film and an eye with a reflection in it. This tells us little about the film itself but we can see through the reflection of the eye the back of a wheelchair which faces an isolated house. Isolated areas are typical setting for horror films. The eye itself had been darkened to bring out the shadows. Making it seem a more scary type of film.