Hostel is a
horror slasher film directed by Quentin Tarantino, where three students are
backpacking across Europe and are attacked by a serial killer while they stay
at a hostel.
Target Audience
It can be
assumed from the plot that the target audience is primarily male, seeing as the
women mentioned in the plot are mainly there as objects of desire for the
characters, as per Laura Mulvey’s theory.
Layout
The layout is
fairly standard. The title of the film and the name of the director are to the
left of the middle of the poster, and a critic's thoughts on the film goes at an angle across the poster, roughly parallel to the knife being held by the model. The picture takes up the entirety of the poster.
Imagery
The central
image shows a man from the torso down standing in front of a door, holding a
knife in one hand and a severed woman’s head in the other hand. This is more
complex than the other simple posters I have analysed and contains more graphic
imagery, and also confirms the idea that this is a slasher film.
Text
There are two
colours used in the poster for the text: a pale beige of the same shade as the man’s
t-shirt, and a darker red colour, almost the same colour as blood or the door
behind the man. This helps the poster by following more continuity, which links
the poster together more. By using the star vehicle names of Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth, it draws in the existing fans of their work to help form the target audience.
Conclusion
Overall, this is
a slightly more complex poster than the other posters I have featured, but it
is still a very good example of a poster. In my opinion, however, I think that the poster I create will look more like the others I have analysed than this one, because this one is less clear to see and less thought-provoking.
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