Even the notoriously scowly, Resurrecting The Champ-hating Devin Faraci has to admit that this new Straw Dogs poster is an improvement over the previous attempt, which was revealed on 6.14. I didn’t have a big problem with version #1 because it basically replicated the original 1971 poster while adding a slogan (which I could have done without) and a small insert of the face of Alexander Skarsgard, who plays James Marsden‘s nemesis, within the broken glasses.
But the new version is better, I’m now realizing, because it (a) removes the amber color element inside the shattered lens, (b) makes Skarsgard into a much more subtle (and therefore creepier) presence while adding Marsden’s openly glaring eye, which was absent in version #1, and (c) gets rid of the chunks of broken glass that were previously stuck to Marsden’s cheek (and which were also stuck to Dustin Hoffman’s cheek in the original).
