The fact that the main image link's to the poster for the original Dracula but because its in color tells us that its a modern telling of a story teller. Dr Ravna (Noel Willman) works his magic on Marianne (Jennifer Daniel) and Gerald (Edward de Souza) in The Kiss of the Vampire (Hammer 1964) White color of title is used to contrast darkness of main image. May potentially link to innocence of victims.

Serif font of the title is in the style of a wooden stake, a paradigmatic convention of the vampire genre. Additionally, the MES of of the stake functions as a proairetic code

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A poster with faded colors and brittle paper, showing significant signs of use. May have tears and paper loss. May have tape, writing, stains in image area. In need of restoration or had major restoration.

MES of revealing costumes. Nightdresses are connotative of sex and sexuality. In particular, these nightdresses emphasise cleavage and the breasts of the female characters The vampire himself seems uncharacteristically fearful in his gesture codes with his arm thrown across his body in a defensive gesture, perhaps protecting himself from the female vampire. The advertisement uses a commonly held ideology of the 50's that all women should be housewives while there husbands work and earn money. The advert depicts a woman who's hair, clothes and make up have been used to represent the average housewife, thus appealing to a wider audience.The facial expression of the female vampire is aggressive, which suggests she is in power. Additionally, her facial expression is particularly unflattering, and subverts hegemonic expectations of female attractiveness. This is a subversive representation! MES of the female victim's costume is highly polysemic and can connote both stereotypically sexualised and innocent. The

The setting of the image uses low key colours, and the MES of the women's costumes contrasts highly with this, presenting a pleasing binary opposition to the target audience. Generic fluidity: this sexy vampire film has evolved in to far more explicit erotic and romantic vampire films of the present day Gerald and Marianne (Edward de Souza and Jennifer Daniel) are uneasy guests in The Kiss of the Vampire (Hammer 1964)Sharp, Don (2 November 1993). "Don Sharp Side 3" (Interview). Interviewed by Teddy Darvas and Alan Lawson. London: History Project. Archived from the original on 13 July 2021 . Retrieved 14 July 2021.

Stylish Hammer production involving a honeymooning couple lost in the Bavarian woods and their encounter with a (literally) hypnotic doctor who lives in a castle, which is a front for a cult of vampires. The couple are invited to attend a masquerade party there and (big mistake) they accept. Symbolic code highly suggestive of sex in the gesture of the victim women pressing her breasts in to the body of the man. At this stage it was absolutely illegal to depict anything approaching explicit sex, so British films in particular had to rely on symbolic codesVictim woman is draped unconscious in the arms of the antagonist which constructs him as both stronger and more masculine, which reinforces a stereotypical 1960's stereotype of the roles of men and women Typical film poster conventions include the names of actors, which also helps to target a pre-sold audience