Carrie Poster

This 'Carrie' poster is from 1976 and is a typical horror poster. The colours used are essential for horror movie posters and the two pictures contrast against each other. The black background sets the tone of the film and shows that it is a dark genre, the black represents evil. The red writing shows danger, blood and represents the colour of fire and anger which viewers see in the film. The two pictures that are next to each other are contrasted in tone, mood and colour. The picture on the left looks very tame, happy and Carrie looks as if she is enjoying herself. The picture on the right, Carrie is looking angry and her dressed in stained red with pig blood and this represents how dangerous she is. The tagline on the poster shows that Carrie is threatening and she is 'terror'.