Following the trailer debut a month ago, the first poster for Park Chan-Wook’s (Oldboy) Stoker has been released.
When the trailer was released in September, with readers commenting with such descriptions as “haunting” and “thrilling,” Fox Searchlight will hope their first poster for the film brings about the same reaction.
The poster is pretty great. With Mia Wasikowska and Nicole Kidman front and center, the vines running around them definitely have a certain eerie feeling to them, particularly the skulls and birds wrapped in the vines. Definitely a solid poster debut, but take a look for yourself below.
Written by Prison Break star Wentworth Miller, the film’s synopsis reads:
India Stoker (Wasikowska) was not prepared to lose her father and best friend Richard (Dermot Mulroney) in a tragic auto accident. The solitude of her woodsy family estate, the peace of her tranquil town, and the unspoken somberness of her home life are suddenly upended by not only this mysterious accident, but by the sudden arrival of her Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode), whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with her and her emotionally unstable mother Evie (Kidman), India thinks the void left by her father’s death is finally being filled by his closet bloodline. Soon after his arrival, India comes to suspect that this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives. Yet instead of feeling outrage or horror, this friendless young woman becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
So far all the advanced hype seems to indicate Stoker will be a terrific film, and the marketing seems to back that assessment up. The only potential indicator to the contrary would be it’s not getting an award-season push, although these types of movies rarely (don’t say The Silence of the Lambs) tends to sway Academy voters.
Fox Searchlight has Stoker scheduled for a March 1, 2013 release.