Analysis of Thriller Posters - The Silence of the Lambs

• The colour scheme is black and white but with a yellow wasp on the woman's face and in the title. The black and white can signify life and death whilst the wasp and yellow signify danger.
• The skull on the wasp suggests that there will be deaths in the film
• The actors names are on the poster as some of them such as Jodie Foster are linked to this genre
• There is reference to the "terrifying" book
• The fact that there is very little information given out in the poster adds to the mystery of the film