Kiss of the Vampire

 

• The iconography mise en scene of the bats reinforces that it is a horror film and that it is a conventional vampire film 
• Full moon which is a genre paradigm of a horror film
• Creepy castle in the background reinforces the idea of a horror movie 
• Stereotypically attractive women functions as a generic paradigm suggesting romance elements
• Hybrid genre Romance Horror 
• Bites on a woman neck, and exposed neck 
• Low key lighting symbolises key themes of movie
• selection of colours, depressing, bleak, and miserable 
• Early 20th century late - 19th century setting highly conventional of horror films 
• Produced by Hammer Studios - specialists in horror films 
• Costume: revealing nightdresses
• Title: "kiss of the vampire" - word kiss also carries romantic elements
• Further anchored by the positioning of the women: sexual overtones
• Frightened face of vampire: atypical and subversive representation of vampires
• One of the main killers is a woman 
• Enforces the hegemonic notion that violence is acceptable 
• The mise en scene of a male vampire surrounded by women enforces the idea of his status, hegemonic patriarchy 
• This poster is polysemic 
• Non stereotypical representation of a male vampire 
• Atypical representation of female vampire since she is shown as strong 
• Violence is shown as good