Research and planning - sinister film poster analysis

- Sinister is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. It follows true-crime writer Ellison Oswalt Ethan Hawke as he discovers a box of home movies that puts his family in danger
- This film poster links exactly with the film. It shows the title in a way where its been written like someones controlled the person who written it. As its in black and it looks as if water has smudged it out which gives the impression of people being controlled by a main person. Which links to the girl dragging her hand across the wall with blood going across it. As the girl is dragging her hand across the blood is going into an outline of the antagonist within the film which shall give the audience a sense of what the antagonist is going to look like within the film. The way the body language of the girl is portrayed links with the title as it looks like the girl is being controlled. Like shes in a dream or sleep walking. Like a zoombie.
- The USP of the film poster is the way the text at the top of the poster ' from the producer of paranormal activity and insidious' this shall create the film to already have a fan base as paranormal activity and insidious were a success within the film industry.
- The way what looks to be tape string and recorder on the floor links with the trailer of the film as it shows tapes being included within the film. The way the girl is infront of the tape looks as though she has dropped it whilst smudging blood across the wall or the audience shall insinuate that the tape shall show murder and killing which is included in the conventions of a horror genre film within the film industry.
- The poster doesn't use too much text its more to the point its vague towards the audience which is the film poster is meant to do. The use of the detailed image which shall attract the image more which shall make the audience examine it in more detail as its not to confusing and the text which is used they shall link with the image which is what shall make the lead up to the film a success within the film industry.