Kiss Of The Vampire

Question 1

What is significant about the style of the poster ?

Answer 1

Painted - typical for this time period
Shows links to Dracula’s film poster

Question 2

What is significant about the colour pallet ?

Answer 2

Gloomy grey/black colour pallet - scary conventions
Pops of red highlights attention of bats vampire and blood

Question 3

What about the poster could make the audience want to watch the movie ?

Answer 3

The actors are listed at the bottom in order of fame

Question 4

How is suspense created in the poster ?

Answer 4

Through the connoted relationship of the female and male vampire emphasised by the title
Audience want to know what happens next

Question 5

What is significant about the female actors ?

Answer 5

Both women wear pale dresses which reveal their chest and upper arms - male gaze
Woman on left is a stereotypical passive victim of the male

Question 6

What is different about the vampire female ?

Answer 6

Showing her teeth and has hand in a fist not ladylike
She is dominant over the male - against female stereotypes
The male uses his arm to protect himself from the female

Question 7

What is the context of the time period?

Answer 7

1960s - start of women’s sexual liberation
Big thing for horror movies

Question 8

What is significant about the title ?

Answer 8

Serif font of wooden styling - coffin vibe
Blood dripping off B like a vampire