Traditionally the last week of the year Hollywood shuts down, so there won't be much news, which is why we've prepared our studio previews and 2007 lists. Get ready to do a double-take as today we've posted our favorite posters for 2007, with our list of worst one-sheets to follow tomorrow. Being that marketing is the most important part of releasing a film, I found it strange that I had such difficulty fidning posters I liked with hundreds of options. Read on to see the best (selected with a struggle) and get ready for sore eyes tomorrow (hopefully you won't go blind).
***TOP POSTERS OF 2007***
SWEENEY TODD, this poster screams Tim Burton. It's artistic, and yet lacks color, which draws your eye. The fat that the only color is red screams for your attention. Johnny Depp sits dead center holding a blade and sitting in a very gothic dominating position. You get the idea and know exactly what you're in for (sans singing); FRONTIER(S), this poster has "French horror" written all over it. The dirty yellow colors help bring out the solid blood-red from her eye. Based on the image, the main character is a strong female lead who has just toughed through one hell of a battle; HOSTEL: PART 2, although this poster says absolutley nothing about the film, it's eye-catching, beautiful and yet completely twisted. This is one of the most stunning posters ever released, and the fact that there's an animated version floating around the web is all the cooler; SKINWALKERS, the poster screams one thing and one thing only... werewolves (whoops!) The image is crisp, clear and stands out wherever it's placed; HILLS HAVE EYES 2, the MPAA flipped when they saw this poster and I don't see why (wow someone in a bag). Everything about this image tells you about the film and what you're about to see - mutants are going to catch some teens and drag them to their deaths. The gritty color scheme is very foreign, which might have been a flaw in marketing the film, but it's a stunning poster nonetheless; TIMBERFALLS, just a simple and wonderfully stylized design. The slanted wording grabs your immediate attention and the the use of blue is well done, it helps bring out the lead in white. The poster is telling of the plot and give you everything you need to know. It's too bad they never were seen in theaters; VACANCY, this is probably one of my all-time favorite posters. It's clever, catchy and quite breathtaking. The colors are all dark and rustic, which help bring out the glow of the neon sign, which screams the title. A+; GRINDHOUSE, nuff said. Grabs the feel of a real grindhouse film.
These are all good but I think 28 Weeks Later got snubbed here. This poster was awesome.http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r211/tymishu_200 6/28_weeks_later_poster.jpg
Eh, I don't think Skinwalkers or Timber Falls should be on that list. Just because the title is slanted doesn't make the poster exactly better. As for the Skinwalkers poster, it just looks really cheesy.
In my opinion, the 28 Weeks Later poster tymishu28 showed and both posters for The Mist are a whole lot better.
I think somebody was blinded by the nipple, cause the Hostel 2 poster is almost as lame as the movie was. I like the rest...though Frontiers is a little much. The picture and the title don't mesh well for someone who wouldn't know anything about the movie...except maybe "Woman beating, the final Fronteirs!"
The horribly fake teeth in the Skinwalkers poster kills it for me. The poster that screamed VAMPIRES when you saw it was 30DoN.
And I don't even know what's going on in the Hostel 11 poster. The first one of the meat was awesome.
The movie blew, but the banned Captivity poster should've made the list.
you fuckin picked skinwalkers as best poster in 2007 over fuckin holloween.... are you on fuckin crack.... that poster is so bad... it reveals nothing but a ulgy werewolf chick with some serious fangs....OHHHHHH WOWWWWWW
this should only be for OFFICIAL posters that were in movie theaters. hence, Hostel Part II fails.
yes, this is just for posters, but that movie (and the series as a whole) deserves to fail on every level
I agree with 3 of the choices for being great posters in '07 (Sweeny, Vacancy & Grindhouse) but as for the rest of them, meh. That Frontiers poster looks like it's trying very hard to be High Tension (which BTW had a great posters) Skin Walkers and Hills Have Eyes 2 is ok but nothing spectacular, I think the worse one is the one given the most praise which is Timber Falls. The slanty look of the poster is niether jarring nor scary, it's actually boring. The font used for the title is very generic and the photoshop skills used to create the poster is average at best. A special Lame award goes to Hostel 2 for trying to get the poster to be the must have poster haning in every male college student's dorm room because it has a BOOB in it, WHOO HOO! It figures that a d-bag like Roth would consider his movie to be such a masterpiece of horror filmaking that he would try to make the movie poster Maplethorpe-esque thereby insulting Maplethorpe's work. They should have stuck to a motif similar to the one's used for the first movie because despite hating it I thought the Poster art for that movie was much better, more intruiguing and it gave a better sense of what the movie was about as well as playing off the double meaning of the title 'Hostel'. Shame that '30 Days of Night' didn't get at least an honorable mention for the great poster that it was.
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