35 Creative Teaser Movie Posters

By Matthew Heidenreich | Published July 14th, 2010 in Inspiration

The objective of a teaser movie poster is to get you interested in the film by providing the least amount of description and detail.  By giving little detail, the reader will try to come to their own conclusion by using their imagination before knowing what the story will be about.  In this post I will share with you 35 movie posters that do an excellent job teasing us, the viewers.

2012

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Buried Alive

Captivity

Cars

Cloverfield

District 9

Fast & Furious

Friday the 13th

From Paris with Love

Gran Torino

Harold and Kumar 2

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Iron Man 2

Iron Man

Lady in the Water

Pandorum

Preadators

Quantum of Solace

SAW V

Scream 4

Shrek the Third

Spider-Man 3

Superman Returns

Terminator Salvation

The Crazies

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Dark Knight

The Invasion

The Lovely Bones

The Ugly Truth

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen

Up

Where the Wild Things Are

X-Files

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19 Comments
  1. Web Design Nottingham on July 14th, 2010

    Brilliant list of posters, 2012 is definalty my fav, though I also like UP :-)

  2. synthetic samurai on July 14th, 2010

    pretty good list here.

  3. adiku on July 14th, 2010

    Great, Thanks

  4. Jae Xavier on July 14th, 2010

    The Benjamin Button poster is “eye catchy”. Its something you don’t see everyday – an old baby.

  5. Blueprint Website Design on July 14th, 2010

    Nice list of posters. The Terminator Salvation poster always sticks out to me. I also like the Harry Potter one. Just saw the trailer and I’m pumped to see the last two movies. Another cool thing about movie promo posters to me is the way that they incorporate the designs into the websites for the movies!

  6. Matthew Heidenreich on July 14th, 2010

    I always love teaser posters because it gets up excited for a movie. They never show you enough of what you want to see, so it keeps you interested in what they may have to offer. Take the new Nightmare on Elm Street movie. No one was exactly sure what the new Freddy would look like with the revive. So of course they do everything to keep the face hidden in the picture making your imagination run wild as to what it will finally look like.

  7. ndrew on July 15th, 2010

    buried alive is the simplest poster i guess, but has a deep meaning..

  8. tee are on July 15th, 2010

    i love all the movie posters

  9. paul on July 15th, 2010

    Thank u. Some very nice photomanipulations here and great inspiration.
    Also some great movies to wotch again :)

    Digital Arts, Featuring Fantastic Sceneries – http://www.cruzine.com/2010/07/15/fantastic-sceneries-photo-manipulation/

  10. Koje on July 15th, 2010

    I have watched some of them..
    really nice movies also :)

  11. pakaworld on July 15th, 2010

    The only thing i can say is AWESOME.

  12. Nottingham Web Design on July 15th, 2010

    I’m just thinking, I wonder what the ‘the social network’ (movie about how facebook was created) poster will be like! any ideas?!?!

  13. yohan06 on July 16th, 2010

    cool info

  14. Cliff on July 18th, 2010

    The captivate poster looks like it would work for buried alive :)

    Although it is quite creative to just have a plain black poster.

  15. code pixelz media on July 19th, 2010

    very good. I like the way you present your content

  16. alex tass on July 22nd, 2010

    Great collection!

  17. Manali on July 27th, 2010

    I always love teaser posters because it gets up excited for a movie. They never show you enough of what you want to see, so it keeps you interested in what they may have to offer.

  18. vuitton on August 15th, 2010

    certainly helpful for me and will test some of those soon~~~

  19. HDR Textures on August 20th, 2010

    These are great designs, I find that simple concepts can make for the best posters as opposed to something very detailed and in depth.