I love this image in the trailer, but I hate the way it’s been finessed into a poster (see the full version at ShockTilYouDrop.com). In the film, Liv Tyler is exhaling after a calming drag on a cigarette when the masked figure strays into the frame (audiences being particularly vulnerable to a scare when exhaling or laughing), but in this shot she’s all tensed up. Worse, she’s extending her index fingers because… that’s what no one does when they’re tense? Either your hands and fingers hang loose or you clench your fists. What she’s doing here is completely unnatural.
I’m looking forward to The Strangers, but this poster is garbage compared to the slasher throwback below – which apparently misrepresents the tone of the film. Fair enough. But there’s got to be a better option than this. At least fix the fingers. God, I sound like Jeff Wells.
The Strangers goes head-to-head with Sex and the City (and The Foot Fist Way!) on May 30th.
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i hate when people put first
Maybe it's meant to digitally replace the cigarette in one hand, and someone really likes symmetry?
look at the way her head sits on the shoulders..they have definitely done some kind of photo shop type manipulation there
My first impression of this image was one of terror. I mean, didya see the horse face on the lady! Oh yeah, and there also appears to be an ominous looking figure in the background…
Copy and paste job… god I hate photoshop sometimes, and I'm a graphic designer.
HALLOWEEN ripoff. Mike Myers did it first.
goddammit I hate idiots like you
there is a huge DIFFERENCE between an "homage" and a "ripoff"
this looks like the scariest movie in a while. DEVIN IS A FAT ALCOHOLIC SLOB YIPPIE KI YAY
This looks a LOT like the recently released on DVD, "They" which was pretty fantastic I must say. This looks great but it'll have a hard time beating that I think.
this was the first trailer to scare me in a long time, the movie looks great. the poster looks like shit, and i get the feeling its taking away from a part of the movie where if you didnt see it on the poster half an hour before going into the theater, everyone in the theater would scream, but since everyones seen it, a lot of people are just going to put two and two together and know whats about to happen
How does that other (better) poster misrepresent the film?
Thank you so much for the Jeff Wells dig. That guy's the biggest ass on the Web.
Does anyone know if this is supposed to be a semi remake of Ils(Them). Saw that film last summer and absolutely love it.The tone seems similar. If this is even half as thrilling and unsettling as that was I'm there
This comments section is the cancer that is killing Chud.
I thought that she was pointing at her feet.
Why not just use the first poster they released? It looks great! This new poster is just terrible. No design at all. And the title looks like the same style for "White Noise". I hope the person in charge of this decision was fired.
references from certain slums of the interbutts are the cancer killing chud.
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