Directed by: Tomas Alfredson,
Year: 2008
Paradigmatic conventions:
Setting: Blackeberg, a suburb of Stockholm, in the early 1980s
Character: Oskar, a 12 year old boy who is getting bullied.
Villain: Eli, shares the physical appearance of a pale girl Oskar’s age, but is in fact a vampire.
Props: Fangs
Evokes fear: Will love overcome the temptation to kill?
Plot synopsis: Oskar a 12 year old boy who is frequently being bullied, dreams of revenge. When playing outside his apartment one night he meets Eli a peculiar girl his age that soon becomes one of Oskar’s only friends. Eli is odd, she cannot stand the sun or food and needs to be invited into a place before she can enter, Oskar over looks this as Eli helps him get his revenge. A Friendship has been built and love has been felt before Oskar realises that Eli needs to drink human blood to survive, and is faced with a choice. How much can love forgive?
Poster Analysis:
The black figure of the girl creates fear as it amplifies the mystery of this character building the tension and making the audience want to know her identity and why it is being hidden. The fact that the black figure is in the foreground and a white light behind it shows the darkness taking over the light adding to the horror and stimulating fear. The title does not stand out on this poster as the font is transparent however it seen against her black figure. The fact that her hand if pressed against the glass is almost as if her hand is pressed again your TV screen giving the idea that the two worlds the fiction world of this film and the real world of the audience can be merged together, again creating fear and horror. The credits are white so that they stand out at the bottom of the poster and are therefore readable. This poster is more focused on the image then the writing as it lets its image speak for itself.
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