CRIME!!!

You can tell it's got 'suspen' in it because of the wavey type.

Giallo

Wikipedia has a great entry on Giallo here.

It sounds like something I need to research further. And in the tradition of posting images of posters:

Dectective film posters

Some great old posters I found on the interwebs today. They have a bit more class than modern movies poster in my opinion.

I'd quite like to mock-up an action movie poster at some point though... The characters silhouetted against an exploding car with a stealth helicopter swooping low overhead, in pursuit of another version of the hero (riding a motorbike of course), who is steering one-handed due to the uzi that he is firing back over his left shoulder at the pursuing chopper.

A film poster concept

I'm just working on a concept for a Dead-Guy poster, early stages yet. I've been looking at a lot of Film Noir and Mystery posters from the 30-50s.

Enjoy.