Of Images: “The Hunger”.

When you see Catherine Deneuve in a leather jacket with blood on her lips, looking slightly surprised leaning over a unconscious young and handsome men while David Bowie, wearing a suit holding a cigarette behinds her, sends a quite bored look to the viewer you instantly find that the movie “The Hunger”, directed by Tony Scott, is sexy, voluptuous, charming and fairly intimidating. Though its not a very elaborate image and in fact is very similar to any modern fashion advertisement – you can clearly identify some Dolce & Gabbana features there -, it’s undoubtly effective since its dark tones and imagery visually announce to the public that in this movie vampires are as dangerous and deathly as they are used to be in any other classic of the genre, but at the same time it also suggests that these creatures may not be exactly the vampires you were used to know. Compare it to posters of the last vampire movies that have been produced and you will immediataly realize how efficient it is as a poster – and amazingly beautiful, of course.