I was recently inspired by underrated modern horror movies and decided to create an attractive and minimalist poster promoting one of my faves.
The Ritual (2017) is a horror movie that involves four longtime friends who decide to hike through the Swedish wilderness as a homage to their late best friend.
They decide to take a foreboding shortcut through the forest wherein lies a mythical monster and more.
The main area of the poster is inhabited by the silhouette of the prime antagonist of the movie - a Jotunn, the bastard son of Loki with a decapitated body for a head with arms and branch antlers on a giant elk body. The layers of dead pine trees within the silhouette depict the depth of the forest as well as the fact hat the Jotunn is the forest itself and controls its layout and exit. There are Elder Futhark runes carved on the trees like algiz (ᛉ) which can be taken to mean elk, and odal/othala (ᛟ) which can be taken to mean property.
Finally the four hikers make up the spikes on the back of the Jotunn.
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