You probably know that we feature quite some poster designs on our website every week, and every Sunday we feature some movie posters. Last week I came across an interesting blogpost series made by Christophe Courtois, he made quite a collection with movie posters and put them together according to their genre. You will all see what he tried to show in one glance. Every genre has the same poster style these days. If you look at posters from 50 years back, they're really cool and creative. If you look at nowadays posters, I think some of them are still amazing, but now that I have seen this, most of them aren't that creative as they where before...

Unicolor - The smaller, less known movies

The Red Dress - Romance

The Back - Loneliness of the main actor, often a hero

The Eye - Mostly horror

Animals - If they play an important part in the movies, blue is an important color

Blindfolded - Law and Justice

Tom Cruise - Preferably profile

Text and Faces - Mostly the main actor is courageous and brave

Back to Back - Tough love

A silhouette in front of the ocean - Drama and emotion

Black, White and Fire - Action movies, a lot explosion

Black, White, Red - Action movies, a lot of guns

Blue colors and street images - Mysterious stories (thrillers)

Creative usage of movie elements to create a face

The legs - These movies often contain sex scenes