Christine Horror Poster Analyse

Christine was made in 1983 in USA, it’s a Stephen King film that was made into a book first and directed by John Carpenter. The plot of the film is about a nerdish boy who boys a strange broken, rusty car, that turns the car into a stylish 1958 Plymouth Fury but is possessed by an evil spirit and has a mind of its own.  The box office made £21,200,000, by manly teens watching the horror flick. 

The front cover is mainly all black and in the middle it has the main character the car, Christine who has its lights on and a blue missed around it which shows it’s evil, and different to most cars. Furthermore, the black makes the car stand out and the blue gives it a ghost powerful look to it. This relates to the target audience because of the car, most teens go racing in their friends/boyfriends car which in the 70’/80’s “made them popular”.

The writing all around the poster is all white which makes it ghostly, and the selling line “How do you kill something that can’t possibly be alive?” this title shows the audience first time seeing this poster, it’s not the person in the car that’s a killer, it’s the actual car that unstoppable. On the other hand, the front of Christine is a dark red with a white boarder around ti, which makes it very clear and recognizable film front. The writing its curvy and stylish, because it’s to do with this car that was mysteriously abandoned and turned back to its original self.