Ochre and clay and sulphur, oh my! The poster for Agnieszka Smoczynska’s big budget Artificial Intelligence dystopian sci-fi thriller, Hot Spot, is from Gravillis, the design house who did yeoman’s work on the campaigns for Sinners and Obsession in the past year. The wavy, reality distorted deserted landscapes — the tagline, “The system Is unstable” in a white computer, but not too-computer font seems to confirm this — and posed characters in the foreground in front of distant cities and skyscrapers, speak as much to post-apocalyptic cinema as it does westerns, or cyberpunk. This is a poster that truly stands out with colour and mise-en-scène alone. A red title-card is usually coded towards horror elements. If you are familiar with Smoczynska’s genre-bending The Lure, a cute, violent, mythology-drenched…
