post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

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Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:15 (twelve years ago)

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/a-house-1-copy-enlarge.jpg

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:16 (twelve years ago)

machete kills has a poster like this.

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:17 (twelve years ago)

(in this tradition, that is)

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

detroit rock city?

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

xp no caricatures though nm

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

detroit rock city?

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!! yes

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

and Mallrats!

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

FYI this movie owns:

http://i.imgur.com/DXdVv3Q.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

http://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/14/13101/full-972x1440/51e16f50/wet_hot_american_summer.jpeg

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

woah japanese take on this style:

http://i.imgur.com/yW1UCNL.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:27 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Kzo3Ryg.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:29 (twelve years ago)

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/american-graffiti.jpg?w=584

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:35 (twelve years ago)

http://images.moviefanatic.com/iu/t_full/v1364991767/the-fish-that-saved-pittsburgh-poster.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:37 (twelve years ago)

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-c/cooley_high_poster_02.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:40 (twelve years ago)

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-s/slaughters_big_rip_off_poster_01.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-b/bamboo_gods_and_iron_men_poster_01.jpg

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:42 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/XacS5Ol.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:46 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/uSJJJqa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ek6HzV8.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:55 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/Mnz5Z7Y.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:57 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/3lIx48u.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:59 (twelve years ago)

http://adammcdaniel.com/RichardAmsel2.htm

http://i.imgur.com/Zo51FL9.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:01 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/9CXyAxn.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:01 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/dDoCZ0T.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (twelve years ago)

I've never seen that Nashville poster upthread before! Altman's preferred poster artwork ended up on the soundtrack instead:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/files/2009/08/04/img-nashville_105700420061.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (twelve years ago)

Came up on my Nashville image search:

http://attackofthekillerlibrarian.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/barrylyndon2.jpg?w=449&h=640

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/G70HDmh.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/California_split.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:13 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/yOdPW08.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:14 (twelve years ago)

Every Bond movie of that period to thread...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Live_and_Let_Die-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)

http://wpc.556e.edgecastcdn.net/80556E/img.news/NExYbO1rjwxqAF_1_1.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/california_suite.jpg

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:16 (twelve years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg
Wikipedia's alt text:
A man in a dinner jacket holding a pistol is in the centre of the picture. Various scenes and images surround him, including two women in bikinis, a midget with a pistol, a car stunt and explosions. At the bottom right, oversized and pointing towards the man in the dinner jacket, is a golden gun, with a hand holding a bullet, about to load the gun. The top of the picture has the words "ROGER MOORE as JAMES BOND 007". At the bottom are the words "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lschmxxO8P1r13zreo1_400.jpg

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)

Charltonem Hestonem

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (twelve years ago)

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/MPW-5611

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (twelve years ago)

http://www.filmbrain.com/photos/uncategorized/crackers2.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:19 (twelve years ago)

http://blogintomystery.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/heavymetalmoebiusb.jpg?w=367&h=500

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:21 (twelve years ago)

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38847

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:22 (twelve years ago)

http://www.authortonypiazza.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Freebie-Poster.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)

Jack Davis rakin the bucks back then

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:26 (twelve years ago)

http://i2.listal.com/image/145793/600full-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-poster.jpg

(Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:27 (twelve years ago)

http://i.imgur.com/9L5uH9S.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:33 (twelve years ago)

http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg

brimstead, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:35 (twelve years ago)

ha i guess these are all Jack Davis

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:35 (twelve years ago)

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c8/e6/66/c8e666e6e3b2f743be1382d638f4c190.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:36 (twelve years ago)

Everything about Boogie Nights has to do with the '70s, and sure enough, that extends to the poster, too.

http://mrrumsey.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boogie_nights_ver1.jpg?w=300

(A couple of the images above aren't showing up for me at work, so sorry if it's already been posted.)

clemenza, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:54 (twelve years ago)

Does Velvet Smooth really have a guest star called Emerson Boozer? It seems so. He was an actual person:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Boozer

And he still is, because he's still alive. But he was as well.

Shove It dates from the tiny, tiny window of time when it seemed that Robert Hays might go on to be a major comedy star. And for a brief moment he was, because next year he was in Airplane II, which at least made a profit if not very much money. And then, oblivion.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 12 October 2025 21:14 (eight months ago)

Noticing the name on the truck there, leading me to interesting details in Wikipedia articles

"The original Bigfoot appears in the 1981 film Take This Job and Shove It, where it appears as the main character's personal truck. This was the first appearance of a monster truck in film. A virtual Bigfoot is used by the character Aech inside the virtual reality universe OASIS in the 2018 film Ready Player One. Other appearances by Bigfoot trucks in film include Cannonball Run 2, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Road House, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, Tango & Cash, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."

I don't think I heard about monster trucks until the 90s, but that wasn't my mien at the time.

bendy, Monday, 13 October 2025 13:55 (eight months ago)

Well, you must have missed out on Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNVIKxMJEyk

peace, man, Monday, 13 October 2025 13:59 (eight months ago)

Afraid I did miss out! But maybe I did hear about monster trucks in the eighties? Like wrestling, which seemed to be getting big in the eighties, but became such a phenomenon in the next decade it eclipsed its earlier pop culture status.

bendy, Tuesday, 14 October 2025 01:44 (eight months ago)

feel like this one was probably here before but it didn't come up in a quick search:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjdlMDljZjctNDVhMi00NmRkLWFmZDQtZGRlOTE5MDc3OWU4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Also, RIP Drew Struzan. I'm guessing the poster is much better than the movie.

visiting, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 20:06 (eight months ago)

It is.

She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 20:11 (eight months ago)

verging on straight illustration but plenty busy... fantastic poster for a (iirc) great movie:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmY1MzhhN2QtMzdjMC00MDU2LWI3YmEtZjY0MzkxYzRlOTI3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Busting (1974)

visiting, Saturday, 18 October 2025 00:39 (eight months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjUwMDc5OTgtMjJmMS00NTY1LTg1MGMtY2NmYTU0OTUyZTU5XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Odd Jobs (1986)

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 22 October 2025 22:34 (eight months ago)

I sometimes wonder how godawful some of these films have to be that I, obsessive 80’s/90s-era patron of video stores and watcher of cable TV, and of comedies in particular, haven’t heard of them.

She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 October 2025 00:01 (eight months ago)

one month passes...

https://www.movieposters.com/cdn/shop/products/1fb2f41117088c5795781da9e68ae4d8_96cb1691-0651-4490-8f99-9d9f05969478_1024x1024.jpg?v=1762516033

War, Italian Style (1965)

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 05:35 (six months ago)

^^^ elder abuse: the movie

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 06:30 (six months ago)

non-comedy but plenty busy... really nice poster
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWM1ZDhiYmEtNTM3Mi00NmMzLTg3MTYtYzBhNGFhZmMzNDk4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

The Human Factor (1976)

visiting, Saturday, 20 December 2025 01:29 (six months ago)

So there were two movies called The Human Factor in the '70s? The other is Otto Preminger's final film, which had a decidedly non-claustrophobic poster.

cryptosicko, Saturday, 20 December 2025 02:01 (six months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmE2N2ZkNmItMjE0OC00MDk2LWIwNjgtYmY5YmViMzM5MjliXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

The Hellcats (1968)

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 December 2025 23:39 (six months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmUxOTM4MzMtYTU3Yy00NTJhLWFiOTUtYmEzZTk5YzlkZjY2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Throw Out the Anchor! (1974)

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 December 2025 23:41 (six months ago)

two weeks pass...

so many Brewsters in the 80s, what happened to all the Brewsters

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 10:17 (five months ago)

they drooped

the important "maybe his head just did that" theory (stevie), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 10:55 (five months ago)

three weeks pass...

far predating the usual movies here but this is a beautiful poster:

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/fjZyRK70hMNZAHOooKaWSbGC41E.jpg

Derby Day (1923)

visiting, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:40 (four months ago)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6712c07982bef431579bcba5/e562fc12-4612-462f-be4a-427a40b73b4a/Baltimore_Bullet_SMALL.jpg
the baltimore bullet, 1980

andrew m., Wednesday, 4 February 2026 21:27 (four months ago)

James Coburn has got to be high up on the list of actors who appeared in movies with these kind of posters.

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:00 (four months ago)

Tied with Dom Deluise iirc

Don Knotts, Dick van Dyke in contention as well

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 23:47 (four months ago)

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/7/0/5/1/6/70516-safari-3000-0-2000-0-3000-crop.jpg?v=e3445f993a

Safari 3000, 1982

cryptosicko, Tuesday, 10 February 2026 13:44 (four months ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/zGtLw4c7/s-l1200-(1).jpg

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 15 February 2026 23:29 (four months ago)

god I loved that movie as a kid

congragulations (stevie), Monday, 16 February 2026 08:48 (four months ago)

also anita morris got done dirty by the artist of that VHS cover

congragulations (stevie), Monday, 16 February 2026 08:49 (four months ago)

didn’t know Bob Hoskins was in it

Toe Bean Sprout (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 16 February 2026 09:13 (four months ago)

three weeks pass...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeMxp-sJ4jLDfD5ADrHe1Yq6f7Qm_-5m0095bC5uSibdEo0evxCIxYohQ&s=10

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, 2026

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 March 2026 18:55 (three months ago)

one month passes...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2M1ZTA0MTItZWNhYS00ZDAxLWIyMDQtMzIxNDg2N2NhYjcwXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

The Hollywood Knights (1980)

visiting, Monday, 20 April 2026 23:08 (two months ago)

Introducing Robert Wuhl! Opposite Fran Drescher! In a FLOYD MUTRUX film!!? Good god

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:00 (two months ago)

lead character is ... Newbomb Turk!? I never heard the source of the band name, just thought it was just a phrase they turned

bendy, Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:20 (two months ago)

Tony Danza! Michelle Pfeiffer!

The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:25 (two months ago)

🖼

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, 2026

Tyler Perry’s Ruth’s Chris

The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:48 (two months ago)

one month passes...

#onethread

https://www.audiophileusa.com/images/products/FFAEE62E-97F7-5055-3C5FEAA9178C2F34_x.jpg

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 24 May 2026 21:58 (one month ago)

Jackie D!

the first of many brazen movies (stevie), Monday, 25 May 2026 15:00 (one month ago)

two weeks pass...

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/1/7/6/7/8/17678-gold-0-1000-0-1500-crop.jpg?v=4b4447077e

Gold (1974)

cryptosicko, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 11:28 (three weeks ago)

That's great, and also, that's supposed to be Roger Moore?!?

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 10 June 2026 12:29 (three weeks ago)

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/3/8/3/7/1/2/383712-the-miles-ahead-0-1000-0-1500-crop.jpg?v=3943d1a9b3

This one, for a 1990 film alternately known as Hot Sneakers and The Mile Ahead, isn't quite what this thread celebrates, but it has some of the same energy. Plus, here's the plot description:

Geeky accountant with a boring life is given a pair of magic red sneakers by an angel, which turns him into an amazingly fast runner. He enters an important race and soon is noticed by the CIA and the KGB.

cryptosicko, Friday, 19 June 2026 13:28 (one week ago)

When the DP is in the cast list too you know you're in trouble

pax ramona (Matt #2), Friday, 19 June 2026 13:35 (one week ago)

They're really banking on those credits to sell the film.

cryptosicko, Friday, 19 June 2026 13:38 (one week ago)

Starring Mark Duffus

The Yellow Kid, Friday, 19 June 2026 18:39 (one week ago)


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