Reservoir Dogs Poster Analysis

Reservoir Dogs is a film made by Quentin Tarantino in 1992, After a simple jewelery heist goes terribly wrong, the surviving criminals begin to suspect that one of them is a police informant.
Starting from the top of the poster, it is splattered with blood, this insinuates the genre of the film, which could be a violent action thriller.
The first words are written in small font (which shows the importance of the director at the time) even though Tarantino is well known now in 1992 this was his debut film.
The title is than shown in large black bold writing, it is highlighted, with a plain white background.
The image is of four smartly dressed men walking towards the camera this could show them being part of a group, and given the title they could be the "dogs".
Finally at the bottom of the page is "every dog has its day" which is the tag line which links the group of guys to dogs.
This film targets its male dominant audience, with a simple use of blood splatter and a male dominated cast, by not showing who is in the film it allows the audience to look at the poster itself and realise it stars, Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel.
What we gain from this poster is an idea on how to subtly show the genre with very little on the poster.