60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters
Gustavs Jurisons
In this post I will present you a showcase of 60 creative movie posters. I came across many sites and found very useful information and gathered all here. So, almost everything has a different colors, style, genre and graphical approach. Basically a film poster is a poster used to advertise a film. There may be several versions for one film, with variations in regards to size, content and country of production of the poster. It usually contains an image with text, though this has evolved over time from image-free bill posters through to the highly visual digital productions of today.
Nowadays there are many posters, but most of them do not attract people. So clearly, the poster design is one of the most important things in advertising films, but nothing outweighs their ingenuity and creativity that attracts many people.
1. Terminator: Salvation
2. Avatar
3. Stripped Down
4. Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs
5. Fast & Furious
6. Crank High Voltage
7. Zombieland
8. Transformers Revenge of the Fallen
9. X-Men Origins Wolverine
10. Watchmen
11. Final Destination
12. Inglourious Basterds
13. District 9
14. The Broken
15. Angels & Demons
16. Knowing
17. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
18. Food, Inc.
19. G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra
20. Disaster Movie
21. The Eye
22. Fuel
23. Humboldt County
24. Punisher: War Zone
25. Cloverfield
26. Max Payne
27. Lord of War
28. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
29. Pulse
30. The Air I Breathe
31. Zodiac
32. Hard Candy
33. Up
34. The Age of Stupid
35. 2012
36. Up in the Air
37. Star Trek
38. The Girlfriend Experience
39. Where the Wild Things Are
40. A Christmas Carol
41. (500) Days of Summer
42. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
43. Monsters vs. Aliens
44. Clash of the Titans
45. Daybreakers
46. From Paris with Love
47. How to Train Your Dragon
48. Iron Man 2
49. Inception
50. Kick-Ass
51. Lake Mungo
52. Legion
53. A Nightmare on Elm Street
54. Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief
55. Red Sonja
56. Sex and the City 2
57. The Wolfman
58. Tron Legacy
59. Shutter Island
60. The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
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Olmec Sinclair
Posted 817 days ago 51Hmmm, most are not creative (as others have noted)… but there are plenty of movies I hadn’t heard of. So, while it is somewhat misleading, I found the information useful.
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Mr Realistic
Posted 823 days ago 50This is not a list of extremely creative movie posters.
This is a list of movie posters from the last two years.
Believe it or not, there were creative posters in the 60′s, 70′s, 80′s, etc. and even before.
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PsdDude
Posted 835 days ago 49Beautiful! For an hour i am admiring these posters …a very good source of inspiration!
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Ish
Posted 836 days ago 48“Nice looking” and “creative” are completely different things. Most of the posters here do fall under the first category, but very few under the latter. Changing the name of the article would be very appropriate, so it won’t be as misleading as it is right now.
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Posted 839 days ago 46I was unimpressed by most of these. I thought Avatar’s poster was bland, boring, and cliche. Much like the movie itself. And several of the others were not even close to inspiring or even good. Only a handful were worth looking at. Disappointing.
Douglas
Posted 839 days ago 45Who qualified these as “extremely creative”?
Many of them are simple main-character-meets-setting-plus-title-art. Can someone tell me what’s “extreme” or “creative” about that?
An inherently creative concept for a movie does not an “extremely creative” movie-poster make. The creativity is in how the movie concept is applied to a poster. Here, I see mostly mediocre branding and blockbuster pablum.
I’ll narrow this down to a truly “creative” list:
1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 20, 27, 28, 32, 34, 40, 42 and 46.
Whittling down the list from 60 to 13? Yes, especially when you consider that items 2, 4, 8, 9, 43, 47 and 48 (to name just a few) required nothing more than the movie itself to come up with the poster. Extremely creative? Rubbish.
TheForever
Posted 839 days ago 44The fact that you included the Twilight poster discredits any chance this list had of being a good list.
bango
Posted 840 days ago 43Ouaw, excellent selection
jazzact13
Posted 841 days ago 42A lot of good posters there. Sadly, with some of the movie, the work put into a good poster didn’t work so well with making the movie itself good. And some good movies have only middlin’ posters.
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Ivan
Posted 846 days ago 41My favorite is Watchem. Thanks for this collection
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kevin
Posted 846 days ago 40wtf ?! Up in the air ‘extremely creative’ ??
wien
Posted 848 days ago 39great article, thanks
Mrs. M
Posted 849 days ago 38c’mon, this is a terrible list, only few of these posters are actually creative
whoever made this needs to see more
arnold
Posted 849 days ago 37Im not really impress…
look at the “Disaster movier” poster, and the “girl friend experience”, “Humboldt County” …
that’s not “extremely creative” …
you should look at it critically…
Martin Lucas
Posted 850 days ago 36Sorry, but the post should of been titled ’60 movie posters for new and recent films’, was hoping to see something new here – rather than what’s been hanging on my local cinema’s walls these last 12 months or so.
Must try harder!
Douglas
Posted 839 days ago 47Excellent point. We can go back 50 years and still find “extremely creative” movie posters. It’s not a new thing.
Jonas
Posted 850 days ago 35My thoughts exactly. Even though some are really creative, most are good looking at most.
DesignLovr
Posted 850 days ago 34Great Collection!
Love the “From Paris with Love” Poster!
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Creative ideas
Posted 850 days ago 33Totally fantastic compilation of posters. Thanks for inspiration
alone
Posted 852 days ago 32Great collection!! These works are amazing!! Thank you!!
Christy Latz
Posted 853 days ago 31Absolutely brilliant list! Lots of really dynamic things going on with today’s movie poster art. Thank you so much for posting this. :)
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pakaworld
Posted 853 days ago 30am really empress with this post because the are all awesome. Thank you for this wonderful post. Keep it up
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Matthew Heidenreich
Posted 853 days ago 29thanks for this list. There is some great inspiration here, keep it up.
Gregory
Posted 854 days ago 28I usually love Smashing Mag, but this post not so much. Maybe it should “60 Extremely Creative Movie Posters of the last 2-3 years.” Please tell me this wasn’t an attempt to be the best “Creative Movie Posters Ever” because that I feel would be a poor showing. Plus I get suspicious when each poster is linked to their IMDB website, especially the ones for movies that aren’t even out yet…
Steve Martin
Posted 854 days ago 27It’s really interesting to see different poster style here… Collections of great movie posters… Thanks for Sharing….
Francis Baptiste
Posted 856 days ago 26I agree with a few people that not all of these are that creative. A few of them are very by the numbers. It’s important not to confuse budget with creativity. For example, the Transformers poster is most likely a cut and paste job, take some artwork from the CG department, throw in the pyramids and some sun light, it’s very by-the-numbers.
As I scrolled through it started to feel like just a collection of what’s new in theaters, but there were a few that really stood out as great design.
Overall, what I take from this most is how much I take movie posters for granted. I feel so bombarded by movie images that I stop even looking at the posters. There’s some really great work there.
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