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

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http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/13051/cockfighter_poster_01__span.jpg

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link

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

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:17 (ten years ago) link

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)

Grandma's Boy

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/night_shift.jpg

― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:33 (ten years ago) link

xp Rat Race

― not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:37 (ten years ago) link

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/106719.1020.A.jpg

― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link

http://grindhousefilms.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/jackiebrown.gif?w=600

― mohel hell (Bob Six), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:41 (ten years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Blazing_Stewardesses.jpg

― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 21:46 (ten years ago) link

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/1218__x400_enter_the_dragon_poster_003.jpg

― mohel hell (Bob Six), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:48 (ten years ago) link

The giffed-up art for Jackie Brown is very appropriate for its time.

And this is the second time today Freebie & The Bean has come up in conversation.

― pplains, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:05 (ten years ago) link

boob spotted on blazing stewardesses, boob on blazing stewardesses

― stylings (Matt P), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:11 (ten years ago) link

lol at the Euro translated titles for "The End"

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:14 (ten years ago) link

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

A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.

― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:17 (ten years ago) link

re: these posters in video rental places, always musty-smelling and discolored by years of sunlight through the front windows.

― stylings (Matt P), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:18 (ten years ago) link

I think Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould's faces were made specifically to be caricatured this way

― wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:21 (ten years ago) link

more jack davis.

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg

― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:32 (ten years ago) link

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/impossibledavisOSreduced.jpg

― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link

and will elder

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/87/MPW-43732

― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:38 (ten years ago) link

frank frazetta

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEFHoNt9z-Q/TwhnQG3Y0LI/AAAAAAAABvE/HDVIyDGZw-Q/s1600/hotel_paradiso.jpg

― fit and working again, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link

Little Annie Fanny All-Stars

― ͼѾͽ (sic), Friday, 25 October 2013 22:57 (ten years ago) link

http://images.moviepostershop.com/first-family-movie-poster-1980-1020232871.jpg

― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link

Great thread! I used to hate these, but now that there's more historical distance I love them. Although I do have some nostalgia for the context that I used to seem them in, as the covers of 15 year old VHS tapes in tiny rural gas station video rental sections.

― Dan I., Friday, 25 October 2013 22:58 (ten years ago) link

Jesus, Mad Magazine all up in this thread.

My contrib:

http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/black_dynamite_ver3.jpg

Not quite caricature, I guess.

http://www.reggiesworld.com/media/bakery/images/item308/dolemite-poster.jpg

http://ygrael.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/human_tornado_poster_01.jpg

http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/BLACK-SAMURAI.jpg

I forgot the Agent for DRAGON part

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/120/1200180/6invasion_of_bee_girls_1318804567.jpg

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Friday, 25 October 2013 23:09 (ten years ago) link

Anybody else notice that the Choose Your Own Adventure books kept up this motif long after movie posters had discarded it?

― An Android Pug of Some Kind? (kingfish), Friday, 25 October 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link

1968, but noteworthy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YyFxKgm8npo/T6976b2X5jI/AAAAAAAABMc/ZeWGrhzS9AA/s1600/theparty_poster.jpg

― Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/69/MPW-34757

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:02 (ten years ago) link

http://cdn.chud.com/6/6a/350x517px-6abdfbb8_cold-turkey-movie-poster-1971-1020228329.jpeg

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:05 (ten years ago) link

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QmmW1rm_QrQ/TmpVPsvgCLI/AAAAAAAAAag/AVoOAG-8E2c/s1600/Superdad.jpg

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:06 (ten years ago) link

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/ranchodeluxeOS.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DPYUVscSG9I/UZZ1LoGM7wI/AAAAAAAAVfA/LqtnTygzEFs/s1600/Rancho+Deluxe.jpg

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:23 (ten years ago) link

http://jackdavisfoundation.org/gallery/movie-posters

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:42 (ten years ago) link

dunno what the hell some of them are looking at here but whatever it is.. isn't there!

http://www.cedmagic.com/v-title-database/chor/california-suite-1.jpg

great thread!

― piscesx, Saturday, 26 October 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/crime_busters.jpg

― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 02:56 (ten years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Gumball_rally_movie_poster.jpg

― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link

http://www.sci-fimovieposters.co.uk/images/posters-s/S-0096_Soylent_Green_quad_movie_poster_l.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:14 (ten years ago) link

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

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:16 (ten years ago) link

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-super-cops-movie-poster-1974-1020232706.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link

Wow, Soylent Green looks like a madcap comedy!

http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Amazing-Grace-1974.jpg

― Josefa, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link

http://images.moviepostershop.com/sleeper-movie-poster-1974-1010711763.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link

For some reason, I was convinced Meatballs had one of these, but, apparently not. Also, man...lotta lotta movies I never heard of. The amazing thing about this art style (for the ones that are actually in the thread-specified style) is how, the more the poster screams wacky screwball hijinks flying every which way, the more you know the movie's going to be a sluggish, hokey affair with a lot of bland mugging in front of a stock-still camera in mildly offbeat locations, etc.

Not a movie poster, but in-genre:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:26 (ten years ago) link

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla

sorry for huge

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:42 (ten years ago) link

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg

― buzza, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 26 October 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link