This site has an excellent look at some alternative posters for Berberian Sound Studio. I much prefer these posters to the current 'alternate' used in some U.S. advertising, in fact, I'd buy a copy of the teal eye based one in a heart beat (third form the top.).
That particular poster by U.K. graphic designer Julian House has my inner design geek drooling like nothing else lately. I do quite like the original US Poster (with the Fulci-like incomplete head overwhelmed by analog tape), but House's poster evokes the importance of the sound elements, what Berberian specializes in (bloody horror film) and the quintessential giallo symbol, the eye.
If the film only followed House's sense of design in a slightly more linear style with a much better ending, I would be singing it's praises even more.
House's teal design reminds me what great graphic design can do: completely evoke the specific material, but in a way that pleases mind and eye. It's quite clever. I can understand why this awesome poster was not used (outside of the opening credits there's no blood in the film and even the "blood" in the opening credits is more paint-like.) Still, it is cool as hell.
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