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

Tuomas - not sure if it was the first, but it was very similar to "From Hell"

Sutherland and Bujold have awesome cameos

The Big Bus (1976)

Murphy 'Murph' Dunne's cocktail pianist in The Big Bus is legit one of the funniest things ever.

Best tagline ever.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bwps1eNjSlA/WFQnt5kUMJI/AAAAAAAAL7w/4kMMaV9aFaIywVqQ6umhnH0wkVuSOoafQCLcB/s1600/Hot%2BTimes.jpg

Trying another link...

http://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/33185.jpg

Yikes.

First link worth it for the slightly more accurate (I suspect?) color.

Just to take a quick inventory, this thread thus far includes movies called:

Hot Dog...The Movie
Hot Potato
H.O.T.S.
Hot Stuff
Hot Times
Hollywood Hot Tubs
Wet Hot American Summer

lol

I'd forgotten about "H.O.T.S.". the trailer is really something, especially Ken Olfson as Dean Bitterman

https://youtu.be/jnmWsazwP54

the chapter titles for the dvd provide several potential titles for new movies in this vein, if any aspiring director wants to add to crytptosicko's list:

http://dvd.box.sk/newsimg/dvdmov/max1117404822-inlay-cover.jpg

x-post to the imdb trivia thread and the "actors who only appeared in one movie" thread: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1927733/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t42

The 70s/80s VHS sex comedies aren't really being preserved anywhere, are they?

Like I remember as a kid going through the VHS seeing stuff like this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Can_I_Do_It_%27Till_I_Need_Glasses1977.jpg

And now that I'm old enough to actually watch this trash there's no place to actually see it?

H.O.T.S. at least is currently being preserved in full on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqdVrdTLUGU

lots of helpful comments along these lines:

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http://67.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m522orvY9M1qlzduwo1_400.gif

These movies must have the biggest gap of all genres between the poster and the films... like, an ACTUAL overstuffed, wall-to-wall zany cartoon sex romp comedes might be something to see, but in reality these are dismally-paced, lovelessly-shot, underscripted and unfunny non-romps, ime very hard on the eyes and just uncomfortable to watch at any age.

OTM. As odd as it seems to register disappointment with something like Hot Times, the five or so mins that I sampled of it on YouTube looked painfully ugly and lazy. Like, expository dialogue looped over exterior shots of houses and aimless driving scenes shot from the backseat of a car and stuff like that.

The name of the director listed on the poster sounded familiar though. It's Jim McBride, who later went on to do the Richard Gere remake of Breathless and the well-regarded (as I recall) Dennis Quaid/Ellen Barkin thriller The Big Easy.

...and prior to Hot Times, he was responsible for the important '60s Indies David Holtzman's Diary and My Girlfriend's Wedding.

Ha, I've never watched that Gere Breathless but I grabbed the VHS tape at some point based on the wonderfully OTT-sounding back-of-the-box text, courtesy some poor sap at Video Treasures, Inc. Skipping the first bits:

Jesse is a rootless drifter whose sole hero is the comic book loner "The Silver Surfer." Monica is a brilliant student with definite plans for her future. Yet, together they are pure dynamite - in a tempestuous affair that whirls them through L.A.'s back alleys, on a desperate flight to Mexico, and finally to the tale's startling climax.

RICHARD GERE - the sexually explosive loner. VALERIE KAPRISKY - the delicate, well-bred French girl. Together, their passion will leave you BREATHLESS.

H.O.T.S. was an running joke with my friends in my late high school / early college era, it was at the video store and looked so awful that we made fun of it forever then finally rented it and made even more fun of it. One of these friends was pretty jesus-y and was vocally uncomfortable during it which made it even better.

A couple years later his fiancee came to visit his hometown and family and meet his friends for the first time and we coordinated with her beforehand so she was wearing a white t-shirt with HOTS on it in red letters when she got off the plane. She also didn't break when he freaked out and maintained that it stood for something else and it was a strictly a random coincidence.

so what does H.O.T.S. stand for

What Does H.O.T.S. Really Stand For?
Contrary to popular belief that H.O.T.S. stands for "Hold On To Sex" or "Help Out The Seals," H.O.T.S really stands for the first letter of each of the names of the movie's main characters, which are Honey, O'Hara, Terri, and Sam.

haha, perfectly encapsulates the ''more boring and unsexy than you might expect from the poster'' phenomenon.

lol

I also learned that the two "Swinging Cheerleaders" movies (the first of which was directed by Jack Hill)--both of which were initially released a few years prior to H.O.T.S.--were re-released as H.O.T.S. II & III.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-swinging-cheerleaders-movie-poster-1974-1020206557.jpg

RELATED:

http://thenewbev.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Valium-High-1976-poster-381x578.jpg

AKA H.O.T.S III

http://images.moviepostershop.com/revenge-of-the-cheerleaders-movie-poster-1977-1020193646.jpg

I guess exhibitor laws made them state this, but I find it funny how many of these things need to tell you the film is "IN COLOR".

For reason a variation on this one kept coming up in my H.O.T.S. searches:

http://www.chantrellposter.com/images/products/large/8a326fce-f7b3-4758-b455-a554606a3259.jpg

^^^ somehow looks shittier than any of the ostensible H.O.T.S. films. man it'd be great if that series had kept rebranding random garbage campus movies though.

http://i.imgur.com/9F1yGEB.jpg?1

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9861884/737full-les-surdou%C3%A9s-de-la-premi%C3%A8re-compagnie-poster.jpg

still Lou Reed's best acting performance, for my money

those are great finds!

still Lou Reed's best acting performance, for my money

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I thought that the guy in Øystein's second poster looked like Lou Reed so I made a bad joke :(

this is him irl: http://s1.dmcdn.net/oyDr.jpg

now I'm kinda wishing Lou had a cameo in a teen-sex comedy

uncovering some really weird shit while googling this stuff - like this Frazetta Mad magazine mock shampoo ad from the early 60s

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BWCM0NhjHIM/TwhyBge-QxI/AAAAAAAABx0/dJ-jMBZ5lgg/s1600/Ringo+by+frazetta.jpg

haha wtf

Inspired by...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--xljhtmVCUM/T8KtkpEf1QI/AAAAAAAAA5Q/zP9R4wIDCLY/s1600/Breck+child+51+wmk.jpg

to date, Barbara Harris rules in everything i've seen her in

Reminds me...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5d/b5/d1/5db5d1cb1c6fb619f4972cc3c395f6ea.jpg

...and in that search I was reminded there was a mid-90s TV version of Freaky Friday starring Shelly Long & Gaby Hoffman.

WTF?

https://guideimg.alibaba.com/images/shop/102/01/26/4/freaky-friday-movie-poster-11-x-17_3323544.jpg

images are getting kinda far afield here...

http://flickeringscreen.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ffolkes.jpg

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

http://www.barbara-bach.com/poster122.jpg

TBF, 70s action more busy/claustrophobic than caricature

http://originalvintagemovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Hamg-em-High1-663x1024.jpg