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Don't Say a Word: A group of thieves steal a rare gem, but in the process, two of the men double cross the leader of the thieving group, Patrick, and take off with the precious stone. Ten years later, prominent psychiatrist Nathan Conrad is invited to examine a disturbed young woman named Elisabeth. Patrick immediately kidnaps Nathan's daughter, forcing Nathan to attempt to get Elisabeth to reveal a secret number which will ultimately lead Patrick to the whereabouts of the precious gem that has eluded him
Gone Girl: On the occasion of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick Dunne reports that his wife, Amy, has gone missing. Under pressure from the police and a growing media frenzy, Nick's portrait of a blissful union begins to crumble. Soon his lies, deceits and strange behavior have everyone asking the same dark question: Did Nick Dunne kill his wife?
Hard Candy: After three weeks of chatting with the thirty-two year old photographer Jeff Kohlver over the Internet, fourteen year old Hayley Stark meets him in the Nighthawks coffee shop. Hayley flirts with him in spite of the age difference and proposes to go to his house. Once there, she prepares a screwdriver for them and Jeff passes out. When he awakes, he is tied up to a chair, and Hayley accuses him of pedophilia. Jeff denies the accusation, and Hayley begins to torture him in a cat and mouse game.
Prisoners: How far would you go to protect your family? Keller Dover is facing every parent's worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend, Joy, and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki arrests its driver, Alex Jones, but a lack of evidence forces his release. As the police pursue multiple leads and pressure mounts, knowing his child's life is at stake the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands.
The Captive:
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
The Shining: Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.
The Machinist: Trevor hasn't slept in a year, and he starts thinking that he's losing his mind. He starts having hallucinations, and his perception of reality becomes twisted. He's haunted by a co-worker that no one else can see, and keeps finding post-it notes with secret messages on his fridge...

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For psychological thrillers, the fonts are often condensed and follow a typical colour scheme. The titles on the posters above are often at the bottom, and the colour of it making it stand out. For the Machinist, to contrast the dull colours used, the title is in a white font, in bold and condensed. This makes the font look serious, and also worn out due to the small amount of gradient coming from the image on to it. The red of the actors name connotes blood and danger that may be present in the film. For the Shining, the title is in bold writing and italic. It is in black which is a dark colour, and shows there is danger. The bold writing makes the title more rememberable for the audience as it is more likely to grab attention. The captive is in slim writing and red, showing danger. Prisoners is also in slim writing, but in white to contrast the dark background. The slim writing makes it less outstanding, and so more focus is on the image. Hard Candy and Gone Girl also have bold fonts, that aren't condensed but quite spaced. This makes the writing stand out against the background. Hard Candy is in quite a grey colour, in-between black and white, showing the aspect of the film is between evil and good. Gone Girls font is a dark blue to match the sky background, and is slightly fading, matching the title of Gone Girl as the font too is slowly disappearing. Don't Say a Word has a different title to the other posters, as it is in quite an old fashioned font in white.

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Film posters have various purposes. The main purpose of a film poster is to advertise and inform the audience of an upcoming film, through important information such as the release date, actors and the age rating. They focus on visual elements such as photographs and graphics to grab the audiences attention and make them want to see the movie. These visual elements can also give the audience an insight into the themes and genre that will be portrayed throughout the film. This can be shown through characters, colours, lighting and location.

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The lighting in Prisoners, The Machinist, Gone Girl and Don't say a word all conform to the typical low lighting to create a look of tension and mystery. The dark lighting is used so that the audience know that the movie is a thriller, as that is what is normally used. On Gone Girl, the lighting is dark and it hides some of the features of the character, showing how he is possibly a mystery and a main aspect to the disappearance in the movie. With The Machinist and Prisoners, the dull light that hits the characters face makes them look suspenseful. In The Captive, The Shining and Hard Candy, there is bright lighting rather than dark. This could be because the white needs to make other features of the poster stand out, and could also portray the fact that their is innocence and goodness in the movie.
The posters don't show anything about the locations of the movies. The trap on Hard Candy emphasises the theme of kidnap in the movie, and the maze for prisoners highlights the chase they have run order to find the missing girl, and the lake in Gone Girl shows they are in a city near water (missouri), and so they are surrounded by people who could know things about the disappearance.

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Typically for psychological thriller posters are red, black and white. This is because those colours, particularly red, connote danger, death, blood, threat and evil. This is apparent on the majority of the posters, such as Hard Candy with her red hoody showing she is dangerous, and the red writing on the captive and machinist presenting threat. However, Don't Say a Word doesn't have any red, its main colours are white, black and blue. Black and white are typical thriller poster colours, because they are simplistic and have connotations of darkness and innocence, yet blue shows sadness or depression. Blue is used on Gone Girl, with both the lake and the sky, showing how the main character on the poster could be feeling both the emotions of sadness and depression, but is also 'feeling blue' due to the circumstances. There is also a hint of yellow on the horizon, which could show that there is a solution to his problem, that it is all going to work out in the end. Prisoners features a maze that is in a dark blue and white pattern, which are colours that when put together create a sense of sorrow, regret and misery which links to the movie. The same can also be said for the wallpaper in the poster of the machinist.

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The genre for the movies featured above is psychological thriller. All the characters on the posters for the movies all conform to conventions of typical characters that would be featured in a thriller movie.

Michael Douglas and Brittany Murphy in the first poster are both looking in the same direction, showing that whatever they are looking at is a threat and so they are scared of it. Ben Affleck for Gone Girl has a more relaxed posture,  and he is alone on the poster which is a typical custom of a character. However, his face suggests he is worried and scared. Ellen Page on Hard Candy is facing away from the camera, keeping herself masked under the hood, showing that she is potentially the villain and should be feared. Jake Gyllenhaal and Hugh Jackman on the poster for prisoners conform to the genre as they are both looking distantly in opposite directions, showing how they are both miserable\stressed suggesting how they are far from their answer and don't know where to look. Ryan Reynolds is looking out infront of him with a concerned look, presenting how he is potentially heading somewhere as he is on the hunt for something. Jack Nicholson is shown to be the villain type for the psychological thriller convention, as he is looking at Shelly Duvall like he is planning on killing her, as he is staring at her with wide eyes and a big smile, showing him to be dangerous. Christian Bale in the Machinist is looking over his shoulder like he is being followed and is looking out for it, showing he is paranoid and concerned for himself.  From all these posters, the audience can start to relate each one to the other and so will always be able to distinguish the genre of the movie. The themes shared are fear, danger, anger, regret and sadness as they are on the poster to send a message to the individual looking at it.