Film Magazine Covers I Like

I have chosen these six magazine covers that I like because I feel they truly represent the horror genre. Each of the characters play the villain in the film they star in except Hellboy. I chose the Hellboy one because he's portrayed as a villain to the characters in the film but to the audience you can tell that he wants to help and he's not the one who's inflicting pain, hes more of a hero. The Empire title for the Hellboy cover is effective as it's lit up in flames. Fire represents destruction, it burns everything and leaves nothing behind. This could illustrate Hellboy's character personality.

Most of the titles on the posters are in red and the colour red connotes danger and is the colour of blood. Blood is part of iconography used in horror films and I feel it's a major part in establishing the horror genre. The 'Scream' magazines involve other horror movies on the covers which I feel is what I want to do on my magazine cover to demonstrate the genre. I want the magazine cover to be shown to an audience and they automatically know that I'm creating a horror magazine cover. The Evil Dead magazine cover is my favourite one as on the title of evil dead there's a hand graphic next to it. This is representative of someone coming out of the grave and typically the first thing that's shown when someone comes out of a grave is the hand. It links with the narrative of the movie which is how I want my magazine cover to be. The images and titles I used on my magazine cover, I want it to link to the narrative so that it all makes sense and everything's connected. The image used on the Evil Dead magazine cover looks very weird and scary. To an audience its a little girl and it looks as though she's trapped somewhere trying to get out.

The Empire magazine cover on the top row in the middle shows all the different villains from other horror movies that were released at the time. It shows how most of the villains are deformed and are male. Stereo typically the villains in horror movies are male and go after women mostly. In my horror trailer, the villain happens to be a female which subverts from the typical villain shown in horror films. Although Entertainment magazine cover is not my favourite one, I still really like it. It's simple yet straight to the point. I like the fact the sole focus is on the villain, the scream mask is the most present thing on the magazine and the tagline next to it 'scream returns' is short and snappy and is pretty straightforward.