Thriller Movie Posters

These are some examples of thriller movie posters.

In these posters the audience gets  some hints as to what the theme in the movie might be and a slight look at the main character(s) in the movie. For example in the poster for 'Hannibal' the audience can guess that the character is slightly crazy because of his expression and that he may be evil as his eyes are red in the poster. The red suggests he is evil because it might be symbolism of all the blood that has been spilled.

However, the movie posters also show the main character so the people looking to watch the movie are shown who the main character is so the audience know at least one character in the movie and what time era the movie is set in. For example, in the poster for 'Dorian Gray' the audience can tell it is set in the 1800s because the character on the poster is wearing 1800 style clothing. However, for some posters, like Shutter Island, the audience only get a clear look at the main characters face.




There are also certain themes these posters share in common. For example Taken, Taken 2, Hannibal and Vantage Point all have red letters in their titles as well as all of the posters having capital letters for the titles of the movie expect 'Se7en'.   6/8 of these movie posters also have clever tag lines, e.g. No Country for Old Men has the tag line 'There are no clean getaways', that hint at the theme in the movie. These tag lines usually are clear to the audience at what they were hinting at after they watch the film.