The simpleness of the poster makes this very effective. It is a common convention of horror promotional poster to be very simple with the attention only on one or two focal images. Here, for example, it is the hand and the eye. The hand coming out of the eye plays on the human fear and squeamish feeling that may come with eyes. Ommetaphobia is the fear of eyes so this is what the poster taps into.
Friday, 12 November 2010
The Eye Poster Analysis
The simpleness of the poster makes this very effective. It is a common convention of horror promotional poster to be very simple with the attention only on one or two focal images. Here, for example, it is the hand and the eye. The hand coming out of the eye plays on the human fear and squeamish feeling that may come with eyes. Ommetaphobia is the fear of eyes so this is what the poster taps into.
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