Movie Posters

[Shadow]

Skaboi will appreciate this one:



You just gotta love that tagline.

How about this French poster for The Blob?



Quoting from my review:

Now there is a great big huge WTF if ever I saw one. Look at that thing! Steve McQueen looks like he just joined the freakin' WWE!! I sure as hell don't remember his shirt getting ripped to shreds like that! Was there a cut scene where he wrestled a bear that I somehow missed? And just who in the hell is that chick with him? That ain't Aneta Corsaut! And there sure as hell wasn't any female in this movie that showed that much cleavage or that much leg...I know, I looked! Another thing...what the hell is going on behind him? I don't see any Blob. In fact, I see no monsters of any kind. I do see what looks like lots of people running around in a panic, cars crashing and something flying in the sky...though for the life in me I cannot recall a sequence involving a helicopter. And what are those long white things...laser beams or searchlights? It looks like goddamn Armageddon is unfolding behind him in that poster! Either that or Godzilla is fending off a maser attack in down town Tokyo. Can you just imagine the colossal disappointment experienced by anyone who went to see the film based on that poster? Here they were probably expecting some apocalyptic flick about global anarchy and they get teens and Jell-O instead! Planetary Danger my ass. No wonder the French don't like us.

[Mr_Vindictive]

Shadow,

I'm guessing it was The Mutilator poster?  Karma for that.  It's sad that Impawards doesn't allow linking to their photos.

Love the Blob poster.  They are completely overselling the film in the poster.

[Shadow]

I'm guessing it was The Mutilator poster?  Karma for that.  It's sad that Impawards doesn't allow linking to their photos.

Yep, that be the one.  I fixed it.

[Mr_Vindictive]

I really need to get around to calling Buddy Cooper and see about doing an interview with him.  If I'm lucky, Andrew might want to post the interview here on the site as he reviewed The Mutilator.  Even if not, I want to do an interview for my own curiosity.

He's a local and dropped out of the business after The Mutilator.  I'd love to get some input about the film and maybe an anecdote or two about the filming.

[JaseSF]

How can you not love these posters?

[Mr. DS]

[RCMerchant]

 Shadow- If I'm not mistaken...the BLOB poster is a re-issue of the 50's film in France during the 80's...which kinda explains the modern look of it...but not the blantant overselling and B.S.! I think I would be totally p**sed going in to  see a Steve McQueen action flik...and seeing that old chestnut- the BLOB!!!!

  Good stuff!!! Karma! 

Darksider-About the SKULLDUGGERY video box; I noticed Video Treasures always has box art that almost NEVER have a dam thing to do with the actual film...I have a BLOODFREAK tape from them-(Picture of an old castle...and the head of a woman screaming looming over it) with the blurb-"He's a Dracula on Drugs!" No mention on the box or picture on the back,of a paper mache turkey  head! Oh well...That's Expliotation!

[Mr. DS]

Darksider-About the SKULLDUGGERY video box; I noticed Video Treasures always has box art that almost NEVER have a dam thing to do with the actual film...I have a BLOODFREAK tape from them-(Picture of an old castle...and the head of a woman screaming looming over it) with the blurb-"He's a Dracula on Drugs!" No mention on the box or picture on the back,of a paper mache turkey  head! Oh well...That's Expliotation!

Yeah I know what you're saying.  The poster makes it seem like a sword and sorcery film but its really an oddball film about role playing.  I actually found that film at this out of the way shop in NH for like 5 bucks.  Complete with plastic cover!

[RapscallionJones]

Those Death Stalker posters are great, but aren't they just regular old Boris Vallejo paintings with the DS name tacked on?

Submitted from my own personal stash:

The Warriors


District B13


And some others:

Exterminator 2


Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (The Breakfast Club version)


Death Wish 3 (aka the greatest movie of all time)

[the guyver]

[wtffilm]

Poster for Luigi Cozzi's 1977 colorized and re-edited surround sound re-release of GODZILLA:



I sadly lost the auction for this one on eBay a couple of years ago - $150 was just more than I could pay for it at the time and I've never seen this poster again, be it on sale, through scans, or otherwise.

Next is something I do have, a lovely flyer for the double billing of the 1977 Toei films LEGEND OF DINOSAURS AND MONSTER BIRDS and the rather rare comic book adaptation DOKEBAN:



I just find the contrast in subject matter to be quite hysterical - I have a one sheet poster of the double billing that's a bit more impressive but no scans of it.

Kindest regards,

Kevin P.

[Mr. DS]

I actually own a mini poster of this one...