Super-saturated yellow means “big independent film.”

Back to back: tough-love relationship ahead.

The only dress colour for romantic comedies? Red.

Running down a blue street? Thriller.

An enormous, looming eye can only mean horror.

View between the legs? Likely includes sex scenes and/or a hot female actress.

Hollywood, California

Christophe Courtois has compiled quite a collection of movie posters and put them together according to genre—here you can see what he tried to show at-a-glance. His point is that Hollywood movie posters have basically fallen into a number of design clichés of late, a change from the originality that posters exhibited, say, 50 years back. You can see more of his comparisons here.

Thanks to colleague Gary Ludwig for the link.