Creep

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Recently while visiting Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra I came across the book Design: Play and discovered in it a set of posters that I just absolutely fell in love with. The set were for a Horror Film Festival in Manchester, England called Creep. The festival featured all the usual fare, but the posters were just a little bit more than what you would expect for the genre.

Done in the Swiss style, it's not exactly what you would expect for a horror festival, but they're effective. Not necessarily for their typography but their simple gimmick of revealing an image of any particular film's iconic killer. When the lights go out, the glow in the dark screen printing ink reveals a glowing menacing face peering back at you. Very cinematic if I do say so, although it's not exactly where the designer was looking to connote the idea. His hope was that cropped type at the top and bottom would help you refer to scrolling credits at the end of a movie, but it turns out that the image appearing after turning down the lights comes off more as the opening of any movie experience.