Fata poster, nikla terror

The title simply means that the terror will come out of the poster by tearing it out. Yeah, you guessed it right. This entry is on the other promotional tool used by movies – posters. For this post, I thought of giving you people a taste of the few screenshots that are used for the torture genre. And as an experiment I thought of comparing it with the posters of some movies of horror genre which I don’t categorize as the torture genre. That is, the plain vanilla horror where the ghosts, demons and zombies come and terrorize people instead of people themselves torturing other people or animals. Well, did I find some real revelation? See for yourself.

Posters of the movie Hostel:

A poster from the sequel of the above movie:


I dare not put other posters of this movie. Too horrifying to put it here. And I guess I have shocked my readers enough to do it at that extent anymore.

A poster from the vintage torture movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre:


And now, Cannibal Holocaust. The first one is the original poster whereas the next one is the poster used for re-release in USA.


The above looks pretty simple, isn’t it? Wait for the next one:


Is there a similarity you find in the pattern of these posters? Yes, there are similarities, glaring similarities. All are dark and depict a pretty horrific picture. Another similarity is the use of props like tools which can be used for doing some serious damage. The intention of these posters are very clear – to inform the viewers that the movie has gone some real gory scenes and to make them think if the poster is so horrifying, how much more would be in the movie itself. Oh, and by the way, I haven’t put some of the worst posters here. I simply couldn’t put up the courage to post it in public.

Now, let’s contrast the above posters against some of the ghostly horror movies. I have chosen few of the very famous and widely recognized horror movies for this.

Poster of The Omen and The Amityville Horror:


Poster of Shining and Shutter:


Well, do I even need to contrast the two separate style of horror movies? In one of my earlier blogs, I had asked if devil would be wondering that humans have surpassed the devil itself when it comes to torture. And I guess with the above posters we have a clear answer. The moviemakers certainly tend to portray the torture part much more evidently when it is done by the humans rather than when demons inflict the trauma on us.

And after having researched for this particular blog, today I am pretty sure that the target segment of the torture genre of movies cannot be same as that of normal horror movies. It simply can’t be. Atleast, not in the eyes of movie makers. The positioning of the movies is too contrasting to believe that the target segment is same. It certainly is possible that the target segment of normal horror genre is a subset of torture genre target segment but it can’t be the other way round.

Disclaimer: All the posters taken have been copied from sites allowing for the copy and I have assumed that there are no copyright issues.