Analysing Horror Film Posters - 'There's Something Wrong with the Children'

The poster for 'There's Something Wrong with the Children' contains a number of conventions typical of the horror genre:

• Low-key lighting and backlighting, creating a sinister unsettling effect and creating an eerie silhouette around the characters.
• The use of black and red as dominant colours, which connote danger, blood, death and evil (common colours used in the horror genre). The luminous green colour is other-wordly, also suggesting something unusual and sinister.
• The poster shows an isolated setting, removed from civilisation.
• The font is bold, suggesting the seriousness of the narrative, but it is also scratched or eroded, which is typical of fonts used in the horror genre.
• One of the production companies is Blumhouse, a production company which specialises in films from the horror genre.
• The poster features children as characters - something which is common in the genre where children are either the victims or the sinister characters.