Color Scheme Inspiration – Vintage Horror Movie Posters

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Color Scheme Inspiration – Vintage Horror Movie Posters

It came from the color palette! Lame movie references aside, here are some color schemes for all the vintage movie buffs in need of inspiration and better acting.

Grab a bowl of popcorn, lower your expectations and take a look at these vintage horror schemes.

Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for author info) and a post on Well Medicated of 100 Illustrated Horror Film posters. Color schemes are available to download through COLOURlovers.

Terror Vision Poster

Destination Inner Space

Fantastic Voyage Poster

Forbidden Planet Poster

Show us Yours!

Thinking of any particularly colorful horror movies? Why not make a color scheme out of it with Kuler or Colourlovers? Once you’re done come back and share it with the rest of us!

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Chris Collins Author Editor
Dest. Inner Space is my favorite! I love these color scheme inspirations!

March 6, 2009 · Reply
Jack Kerouac Author Editor
Awesome. I’ve got to use some of these.

March 6, 2009 · Reply
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Daniel Author Editor
This is a great idea. I wonder though, since these are vintage posters, if they’ve lost their original luster. If colors have faded over time (even slightly), the extracted color schemes only reflect the current state of the poster. Or is that the idea, to take into account the charm of faded out vintage posters?

March 6, 2009 · Reply
logo design guru Author Editor
haha, they are great. It seems that the faded, comic book look was in for the theme of scary movies. That look is scary in itself so I guess it worked. Just goes to show how popular trends spawn from one to the other and how things progress so much over time. Thanks

March 9, 2009 · Reply
Zach Dunn Author Editor
@Logo Design Guru

I agree. In going with what Daniel was saying, I think the overall lack of luster is part of the sell.

While I was flipping through some flickr photos for this post, I did find some posters that kept their original colors. They didn’t appeal to me as much, because the trends were…. ehhhhh.

March 9, 2009 · Reply
Ralph DeLuca Author Editor
Great posters. I own a few like the creature and just purchased the Dracula poster at auction; it belonged to actor Nicolas Cage! Keep up the good posts, its nice to see someone blogging about vintage movie posters.

Best
Ralph DeLuca
Madison, NJ

March 26, 2009 · Reply
Callum Chapman Author Editor
I love the way you make colour schemes! I’m in the middle of rounding up some vintage style posters for my blog at the moment – was influenced to do so because I’m looking at posters as part of my art coursework atm!

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March 26, 2009 · Reply
BigMovies4Free Author Editor
Beautiufl colour schemes thank you! I love the old space style posters, nostalgia :)

September 18, 2009 · Reply
Ron Arts Web Design Author Editor
Absolutely amazing posters. Love the way color schemes are used.

January 27, 2010 · Reply
trish Author Editor
oh cool.. i love the old horror movies. seen creature from black lagoon like a thousand times. never gets old

September 1, 2010 · Reply
Tony Author Editor
Oh my god I love you. I’m doing a 1950′s horror movie poster project for school, and you just made picking my colors SO much easier. Thanks :D

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Great! Very inspiring to create web designs and wordpress templates around movies and 50′s themes.
Thanks. + you made me discover colourlovers.com

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