COMMON THEMES: I have taken a selection of movie posters from contemporary and classic thrillers and have been comparing how they are visually presented to try and get some ideas about how to present my indents. I have separated them into sections based on the colour pallet used, top left; white based movie posters with a limited and minimal colour pallet, top right; some of the more colourful posters I could find. I was actually quite surprised how many colourful thriller posters there are. I thought it was interesting how before the 90's a lot of thriller posters used bright colours and a more varied range of colours, this has decreased rapidly in the past 20 years. I imagine it's mainly due to the advances in graphic design? 

Anyway... Yes, the bottom section are the posters based around darker colours. I'm going to print them all out now, have a look at some more and artists who illustrate horror/thriller books and do some typeface comparisons then hopefully I'll be able to decide on a design direction!