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The film poster is horrible


It's good film, I thought it was as bad as the poster. It was already in my watchlist for almost a year and I just watched it because I thought it would be bad film.

I just wish they put better poster, that poster looks cheap.

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The original theatrical poster had a split picture with Saturn on the left and a zygote on the right.

It was the thing that caught my attention and made me want to see it.

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Yes, this is actually the box art they whipped up for the home video. Similar images, but the way the original poster was laid out was superior.

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Agreed. My initial impression was that it could be a vampire movie.

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i thought the same too! they look more like Vampires, use to see the poster for years on IMDB but never wanted to watch it! it was just a good movie with a very bad poster!

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The poster doesn't represent the film well: their faces look white, like the producers were catering to fans of "Interview with a Vampire." It's just not true to the movie.

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Yeah, that film poster is pretty bad. I just saw this movie for the first time and came in here to look for this film to comment on it and I saw the poster and thought it was the wrong movie and had to search another 3 or 4 minutes or so then realized that's it. lol...

It definitely looks like a horror film judging by that poster. This poster here is a lot better -

https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.FMOPjToxA2RM1CPTCEXeSwHaLH?pid=Api&rs=1

Much more suitable for the movie...

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