I probably have no right to write about this poster, because I have never seen this director's most significant work to date, Pan's Labyrinth, and, in the interest of full disclosure: I couldn't even watch all of the trailer to this movie. It was too freaky for me. I'm straight-up not talented at scary movies.
That said, the artwork on this poster is damn cool. I'm glad that they didn't just shove Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes' faces on the poster, because this is way more eerie. Doesn't this look just like an Edward Gorey picture? Is it an Edward Gorey picture? I can't even tell. But it's fabulous.
Gorey, a children's book author/illustrator known for his "macabre" (thank you, Wikipedia) style, defended himself as such:
"If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point. I'm trying to think if there's sunny nonsense. Sunny, funny nonsense for children — oh, how boring, boring, boring. As Schubert said, there is no happy music. And that's true, there really isn't. And there's probably no happy nonsense, either."
I mean, nursery rhymes are pretty happy, aren't they? What about Edward Lear, with the owl and the pussycat who went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat? Then again, nonsense is not unrelated to dream-logic or losing-touch with reality, which I guess makes it dangerous, scary, and not too happy. There is a case to be made: rock-a-bye baby, ring-around the rosy, it's all pretty intense stuff.
Anyway, this is a neat poster, and this is probably the closest I will ever get to seeing the movie.
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