Items8The creator’s order
  1. 1Jaws (1975)Jaws (1975) 8.1/10 on IMDbReleased 20 Jun 1975Roger Kastel's shark-and-swimmer poster makes suspense a question of scale. A tiny swimmer crosses the calm surface while a vast open mouth rises straight towards her from below. We can see the danger she cannot: one vertical composition creates the whole relationship between predator, victim and…0
  2. 2Vertigo (1958)Vertigo (1958) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 28 May 1958In Saul Bass's orange spiral design, a falling black figure and an outlined woman seem caught in a vortex. Follow the white lines inward and the poster makes your eye perform the instability it advertises. The different treatment of the two figures also suggests an uneasy relationship between a…0
  3. 3The Lobster (2015)The Lobster (2015) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 15 Oct 2015Look for Vasilis Marmatakis's white-background poster of Colin Farrell embracing a partner whose body has been removed. His arms still describe a relationship, but blank space occupies its centre. That visual absence makes loneliness and the pressure to be coupled visible at once. It is especially…0
  4. 4Alien (1979)Alien (1979) 8.4/10 on IMDbReleased 25 May 1979The original cracked-egg design offers a birth that feels like a threat. An isolated egg leaks green light into near-total darkness, with no reassuring human figure to establish scale or safety. It promises something emerging while refusing to show what. Study how the surrounding black space makes…0
  5. 5Anatomy of a Murder (1959)Anatomy of a Murder (1959) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Jul 1959Seek out Saul Bass's original segmented-body poster, distinct from the portrait-led artwork also used for this film. Detached black shapes make the title's 'anatomy' literal, while suggesting a case broken into pieces for examination. The rough silhouette establishes both the crime and the process…0
  6. 6The Silence of the Lambs (1991)The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 8.6/10 on IMDbReleased 14 Feb 1991Dawn Baillie's pale Jodie Foster portrait places a moth across the mouth, turning an ordinary publicity close-up into an image of obstructed speech. The insect's skull-like detail adds a second, smaller encounter with mortality. Your eye moves from the direct stare to the covered lips and then into…0
  7. 7Moon (2009)Moon (2009) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jun 2009AllCity's concentric-circle design places a solitary astronaut against a field of repeated rings. The pattern can read as a lunar disc, a target or a system with a person trapped inside it. Those competing readings suit a film about isolation and uncertain identity without explaining its…0
  8. 8The Truman Show (1998)The Truman Show (1998) 8.2/10 on IMDbReleased 4 Jun 1998From a distance, the mosaic poster gives you Jim Carrey's smiling face; up close, it breaks into hundreds of smaller pictures. Designed by Bryan Allen and executed by photomosaic creator Robert Silvers, it turns a man's identity into an assembled screen image. That shift between person and…0