Yo gang!
What movies do you recall where the cover art or pictures (or maybe movie posters) have NOTHING to do with the film? Many examples are probably going to be involving VHS covers. My example:
House Of Psychotic Women
(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/vhs-videos/675-1.jpg)
For one, the guy doesn't resemble Paul Naschy at all. Also, the 3 women depicted are nothing like the ones in the movie. They don't chain him up and shock him (at least that's what it looks like they're doing), NOBODY has a whip, and one of them is supposed to be in a wheelchair. And as for the blurb "Within their doors await the most unspeakable acts".. almost all of the murders take place elsewhere.
I'm thinking of "Ghoulies" with the classic cover scene of one of the ghoulies popping up out of a toilet. When I was a real little kid the box front kindof scared me away from the toilet. As I got older and got a chance to actually see this movie I learned that first and foremost the movie sucked and secondly the box cover didn't really apply in any way.
How about movies that have a hot woman on the cover, but the woman in the film is not nearly that attractive (or in some cases, attractive at all)?
Also, the tagline for The Prey says "It's not human, and its got an axe!" But the reality is that it IS human, and it only has an axe for a brief moment from what I remember. lol
(http://images.eztakes.com/resources/0830056/posters/0830056_large.jpg)
Looks like a soft core flick with sexy vampires, right?
Wrong. This was the cover of the retitled sci-fi flick INVASION OF THE BEE GIRLS.
this one is deceiving
(http://rooskychick.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/dreamscape-movie.jpg)
it makes it look like a Raiders of the Lost ark type adventure
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412-VMSq-IL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Even in small print on the cover of the DVD it says she's a model. I was gutted.
And therefor nothing to do with the film.
Quote from: Used Meathook on March 20, 2011, 11:54:29 AM
How about movies that have a hot woman on the cover, but the woman in the film is not nearly that attractive (or in some cases, attractive at all)?
Also, the tagline for The Prey says "It's not human, and its got an axe!" But the reality is that it IS human, and it only has an axe for a brief moment from what I remember. lol
I was thinking of The Prey as well. IIRC there's like some woman on the cover seen from the chest down with like a bridal dress, also nowhere in the film! An axe (as you said, barely in the film at all) is buried in her chest. I think the axe was only used around the beginning, involving the death of a VERY BORING couple at a campfire with an admittedly cool decapitation.
Screamers (1978)
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/screamers.jpg)
Andrew reviewed this one. The box says it's about men turned inside out ("and they're still alive!"), but it's really about mutant fish men.
Quote from: retrorussell on March 18, 2011, 06:02:31 PM
House Of Psychotic Women
(http://www.coverbrowser.com/image/vhs-videos/675-1.jpg)
This one sucked me in as a young man. Needless to say it was not what I had hoped for.
Quote from: voltron on March 21, 2011, 04:43:02 PM
Screamers (1978)
(http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq64/voltron_014/screamers.jpg)
Andrew reviewed this one. The box says it's about men turned inside out ("and they're still alive!"), but it's really about mutant fish men.
That's a classic example! The box was so scary (
Men Turned Inside Out! WTF?!?) I remember passing this one up a few times before I got up the nerve to rent this. And then - fish men. Stupid fish men.
Here's a great blog entry (http://www.tor.com/blogs/2010/10/the-blog-that-turns-people-inside-out) from someone who suffered unrelenting fear of being turned inside out for years after glimpsing this VHS cover. He even provides a link to Andrew's review!
I remember the ads in the paper for SCREAMERS. Never saw it but one day when the internet was young I went to IMDB and was linked to ISLAND OF THE FISHMEN (There was another movie called SCREAMERS but with Peter Weller and I knew that wasn't it). I remember seeing NOTHING about fishmen on the VHS box.
I saw HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN on Nightmare Theater one night in the Seattle area when I lived there for a few years. When I later saw the beta box I couldn't believe it was the same film.
From what I recall, Island of the Fish Men and Screamers are the same film. Although, the Screamers "version" features newly shot gore scenes so that it could be repackaged. The actual Island of the Fish Men was more of a tame Island of Dr. Muero (spelling?) type of film.
Also, there's a film called Robot Ninja. Yet the film features neither robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas within it. It is merely a guy with a homemade suit trying to be a vigilante. And he doesn't even use any ninja "moves".
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QDTqiZR_Ars/TQHGw7l-lYI/AAAAAAAAAPo/N7vIlN8F9wg/s1600/robot-ninja.jpg)
I'm thinking Robot Jox
(http://www.awesomeallday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/robot-jox.jpg)
While it isn't entirely misleading when you are young you are expecting a lot less talking and a lot more robot fighting.
How about The Keep?
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Keepposter.jpg)
The movie poster above but VHS was the same except I think with no writing besides the cast and all. However, while it gets the point across never is it really shown in any meaningful way if I remember correctly. It is more some bricks you always see the characters near.
Of course I had low expectations for a film like this, but it was still disappointing.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y8/Rdoltono/SurfNazisPoster2.jpg)
There is no Surfer with a badass lobster claw( just a puny hook) hand and chainsaw on his board terrorizing beach goers.
There aren't many laughs and the protagonist is an elderly woman.
Quote from: Used Meathook on March 25, 2011, 11:49:14 AM
From what I recall, Island of the Fish Men and Screamers are the same film. Although, the Screamers "version" features newly shot gore scenes so that it could be repackaged. The actual Island of the Fish Men was more of a tame Island of Dr. Muero (spelling?) type of film.
Also, there's a film called Robot Ninja. Yet the film features neither robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas within it. It is merely a guy with a homemade suit trying to be a vigilante. And he doesn't even use any ninja "moves".
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QDTqiZR_Ars/TQHGw7l-lYI/AAAAAAAAAPo/N7vIlN8F9wg/s1600/robot-ninja.jpg)
Dude! Thats Lord Zed from Power Rangers!
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070709193818/uncyclopedia/images/9/99/Lord_Zedd.jpg)
Quote from: KYGOTC on March 29, 2011, 11:58:40 AM
Quote from: Used Meathook on March 25, 2011, 11:49:14 AM
From what I recall, Island of the Fish Men and Screamers are the same film. Although, the Screamers "version" features newly shot gore scenes so that it could be repackaged. The actual Island of the Fish Men was more of a tame Island of Dr. Muero (spelling?) type of film.
Also, there's a film called Robot Ninja. Yet the film features neither robots, ninjas, or robot-ninjas within it. It is merely a guy with a homemade suit trying to be a vigilante. And he doesn't even use any ninja "moves".
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_QDTqiZR_Ars/TQHGw7l-lYI/AAAAAAAAAPo/N7vIlN8F9wg/s1600/robot-ninja.jpg)
Dude! Thats Lord Zed from Power Rangers!
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070709193818/uncyclopedia/images/9/99/Lord_Zedd.jpg)
Even intergalactic tyrants have to start their careers somewhere.
This French movie poster for The Blob:
(http://vintagemovieposterstore.com/assets/images/dangerplanataire.jpg)
Quote from: InformationGeek on April 01, 2011, 04:38:15 PM
This French movie poster for The Blob:
(http://vintagemovieposterstore.com/assets/images/dangerplanataire.jpg)
Steve McQueen: I'm telling you guys, it's at least this big !
Quote from: Doggett on April 01, 2011, 04:44:29 PM
Quote from: InformationGeek on April 01, 2011, 04:38:15 PM
This French movie poster for The Blob:
(http://vintagemovieposterstore.com/assets/images/dangerplanataire.jpg)
Steve McQueen: I'm telling you guys, it's at least this big !
That doesn't look a bit like Miss Crump.
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What's this movie about? Two kids going off to the wilderness to meet and old friend that gave up on society, rediscover themselves, frolic in the wilderness, and various other Age of Aquarius feel good stuff.
In the last fifteen minutes or so, two hicks attack them and the girl gets raped in a rather non gratuitous. The guy has a fight with them where he decides violence isn't the answer and the girl learns to move on and cope.
So, why horror styled box art?
Robert Englund is in the last ten minutes of the movie.
As a good guy.
(http://img.amazon.ca/images/I/51pSgX99zIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg)
Film is nowhere near as cool in actuality as this makes it look.
The one below is actually much more appropriate...
(http://www.dvdverdict.com/images/covers/crazies2010bluray.jpg)
The DVD cover of the 1986 film "Trick or Treat" has Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons on the cover as the "stars." Both only have small cameos. The picture on the cover is a cut and paste job featuring recent pictures of the two, and not as they appear in the film. What's really funny is the DVD art for "Leprecaun." It features a picture of Jennifer Aniston, not from the film but from a few years later sporting her "Rachel" haircut. It's funny because Jennifer has such a bad attitude about that movie. If Julia Roberts can laugh about "Satisfaction," Jen shouldn't be so snotty about "Leprecaun."
The monster in this film looks like a alien, from the movie Alien, mixed with the blob and done as a hand puppet. Not quite like this picture might suggest.
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo292/Daverat1966/Horror%20Movie%20Posters/forbidden_world_poster_01.jpg)
Paul Naschy's FRANKENSTEIN'S BLOODY TERROR (1968). I saw it on TV -onna uhf channel at about 4 in the afternoon-it was better than watching the ball game on alla other channels. I was expecting Frankenstein's monster. Of course,at the tender age of 10,I had no clue of Sam Sherman's madness. Well,I had seen DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN-and was p**sed because of that travesty-(Dracula had an afro!),but-ah-I digress.
No f**king Frankenstein Monster. I sat through this thinking I was gonna see Frankenstein. I saw a werewolf movie. It was 1972 and I was ten. I waited...and when it was over.I was like-"What the f**k?".
I like it for what it is now-a Paul Naschy werewolf movie.
But-dam you Sam Sherman-! Sneaky carny of a film maker! :bouncegiggle:
(http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l79/RCMerchant/frankensteinsbloodyterror3d.jpg)