What does it take to make a good movie poster?  Well for starters, some actual effort should probably be exerted into the process.   Yes a poster is a piece of marketing material, but it’s also a still image representation that should incorporate moods, feelings, and possibly themes of the film that mirror the film which it is representing.  It’s supposed to get people psyched to see a movie, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to look like a bad Photoshop job.  A movie poster can be a piece of art that very heartily supplements the movie in ways that you may not even have noticed before.  After spending weeks (an hour or two) going through all the horror movie posters I could find, I am pleased to present you with what I feel are the ten best horror posters from 2008.

10:  Autopsy  Well it definitely isn’t the best poster ever made, but it is still pretty inventive.  You have already seen posters very similar to this in the Saw marketing campaign but they always drifted more towards the visceral side rather than just the disturbing.  I think what really gets to me about this poster is the absolute simplistic and empty space with two severed legs whose muscle tension makes it look like they are walking away.  That little bit put some character into something that is normally overlooked.

9: Diary Of the Dead: What I really like about this poster is that fact that it is an actual drawing.  It’s not strictly Photoshop and it’s definitely not any kind of real world captured image.  I’m not certain which country this poster is from, but it does a much better job at capturing what the movie is all about than the North American Version (which makes it look like an action thriller).  The camera is capturing the action while a zombie is clearly in the viewfinder.  Kind of like the camera operator is too concerned about what’s in the distance to see the inherent danger right in front of him.