Horror magazine analysis

This is the horror magazine cover for the magazine Fangoria, This is not the type of magazine cover you would normally relate to a horror magazine. The colours are bright and bold and normally with a horror magazine you normally expect dark, grey colours. Although this is the case for this cover and some of their other covers their is still the stereotypical things in which you would find in a horror magazine. Such as the large main image of a horror character. Although this magazine doesn't seem as professional as magazines such as empire magazine you can still see what it is trying to advertise. The colours take away from the scary side that you know the films would hold. The bold masthead is doing just as you would expect which is appealing to the target audience. The target audience for people who buy this magazine would be people who are interested in 'Gore' and Horror films. The hidden message in the title is witty and clever as the magazine is doing just as it says. The red colour of the masthead also makes you think of blood and core which is stereotypical in a horror film.