3. The Cabin In The Woods
As great as the film’s main Rubik’s Cube poster was, this secondary poster is on a completely different level.
A huge challenge with a movie like The Cabin In The Woods is finding a way to create an interesting poster without providing any spoilers. Really anything other than kids going to a cabin in the woods starts to spoil things, so it’s delicate ground they were treading on. This poster excellently invokes interest without giving a bit of blatant information about the film.
That doesn’t mean that there isn’t any information though. A quick glance shows it’s obviously directly inspired by M.C. Esher’s Relativity. Important in Esher’s work was the challenges behind perspective, namely that of depicting a 3-dimensional world in a 2-dimensional medium. Basically, his work shows that things aren’t always what they seem. See how fitting it is for this film? The tagline at the top of the poster also is slightly revealing of the depth of the poster. Beautiful to look at and brilliant once you think about it.
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Published: Dec 22, 2012 01:22 pm