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

it's helpful to be reminded just how many awful movies were made in pretty much any given decade.

https://scopophiliamovieblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bad-manners-2.png

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F06eMU90L.jpg

http://www.westernposterpage.com/waterhole3.jpg

Great batch.

just how many Animal House rip offs were there in the late 70s/early 80s??

I imagine about the same number of pulp fiction ripoffs in the mid to late 90s

Don't forget American Graffiti ripoffs!

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

clicked thread. did not expect there would be so, so many of these

Flodder (1986)

http://www.flodder.tv/Resources/flodder1affiche0a.jpeg

Flodder in Amerika! (1992)

http://www.flodder.tv/Resources/americaaffichegoa.jpeg

Flodder 3 (1995)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Flodder3.jpg

according to wiki the film follows an anti-social, dysfunctional family who move to an affluent, upper-class neighbourhood as part of a social experiment which results in mayhem as the Flodder family refuses to adapt

also this slightly odd footnote about the Québec dub:

The film was translated into joual (a Québec working class dialect) and distributed in Québec under the title Les Lavigueur déménagent (The Lavigueurs are moving). The name Lavigueur was taken from a Montreal working-class family who had made headlines in 1986 after winning what was then the largest jackpot ever awarded in a Canadian lottery, at 6/49. The family ― except for Yve Lavigueur ― attempted to sue the filmmakers, but they could do nothing as nobody owns a particular last name, especially a popular one. Yve, on the other hand, went to the premiere, where he quickly realized that the film had nothing to do with his family, which infuriated him. Drugs clouded his judgment. He thought that a film about his family would be a good thing, when, in fact, it was done to mock them.[2]

wowwwww, Flodder series is a great find. also great "unusual details in wikipedia articles" material.

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

Photoshop, but with the heart in the right place...

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/988772_1013890038669401_4749091585694674974_n.jpg?oh=fbb5c637b478ac9970abd61380f4f78e&oe=56FD3D27

http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

oops

http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

oops again...this one is already upthread.

foreign posters for Britannia Hospital (lol at selling it as "the M*A*S*H of socialized medicine")

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/86/MPW-43472

https://fbwebsitedefaultstorage.blob.core.windows.net/film/1696/uk/britannia-hospital-poster.jpg

Franzetta:

http://www.heavymetal.com/news/13-screwball-comedy-movie-posters-by-frank-frazetta/

wowwwww.

"mixed company" setting off alarm bells over here. "mad monster party" apparently trying to pre-empt MAD magazine's spoof by using their exact typeface/bolding.

Mad Monster Party? wasn't official MAD but had ties - Harvey Kurtzman co-wrote the script and Jack Davis did character design.

literally stepping on the naked black kid xp

High Stakes (1986), starring Dave Foley when he like 21 or something

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mk%2Br7w06L.jpg

"...a graphic adventure on PC and Macintosh!"

http://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/11247.jpg

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Reb_Al/Davy%20Crockett%20%20Indian%20Fighter%20Comic/Viva---2.jpg

Viva Max!(1969

great find. and very design-y for Davis! wonder if it was from some art director's concept.

would buy this thread as a coffee table book btw

mort drucker, sam viviano, jack davis are the kings of this shit

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This is super OTM but it immediately made me think of Dick DeBartolo, who you'd think would've been similarly in demand but I can't find information about him ever having done a movie poster. If anyone discovers otherwise, though, it's surefire fodder for this thread.

http://www.rockpopmem.com/images/products/square/64350.jpg

wikipedia attempts to explain:

I've Gotta Horse was Billy Fury's second hit feature film and as well as a number of human stars including Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee and pop bands The Gamblers and The Bachelors it featured his own race horse Anselmo as well as several of his own dogs in a musical comedy...Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead. To his manager's horror, Billy smuggles the horse backstage during rehearsals for his big show and the horse proceeds to create havoc. Little do either of them know that Armitage is actually a thoroughbred racehorse. Then Billy's horse contracts pneumonia and Billy must choose between love of his horse and the big show.

the films titular song is pretty catchy: https://youtu.be/urYHt3J0WkQ

huh, yeah, that's pretty good. guy's really glad to have a horse. movie writes itself really.

conspicuous lack of horses on the poster.

Secondarily, this thread is a great reminder of just how many terrible, forgettable and forgotten films Hollywood has put out during every era.

Seriously. I was browsing the Wikipedia page for 1960-something in film and I was like, wtf even are most of these highest grossing movies from 1960-something? Try explaining to your grandchildren what a Fast 5 was.

Wasn't Dick DeBartolo more of a writer than an artist?

yes, Old Lunch is thinking of Angelo Torres maybe?

Torres is no Drucker or Davis

American Graffiti got posted very early in this thread, but this Spanish-language version is a different, equally claustrophobic design:

http://i2.listal.com/image/137254/936full-american-graffiti-poster.jpg

^^With a major spoiler in the lower righthand corner (and also hey hey I went and saw this film projected in 35mm for the first time tonight!)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/hog-wild-movie-poster-1980-1020240910.jpg

http://www.outoftheaters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/movie-poster_The-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg

wow, nice

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

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

time has not been kind to that poster

http://www.80smovieposters.com/4061/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/finders-keepers-movie-poster-1984-1020340348.jpg

Oh, that's first-rate! Right down to proudly announcing its very solidly B- and C-list leads at the top. Looks like real Cannonball Run stuff - I have to assume that the cutaways to the two roller-derby girls are particularly tedious.

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/bingo_long_traveling_all_stars_and_motor_kings_xlg.jpg

Woah - just watched that last week.

Is it good? Always wanted to see it.