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

...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

?

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

http://www.benitomovieposter.com/catalog/images/movieposter/33981.jpg

Good ones!

I just happened to be looking up a film from somewhere upthread called One More Time (directed by Jerry Lewis), and came across this doozy in the plot synopsis:

London nightclub buddies Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Pepper (Peter Lawford) link Pepper’s dead twin to diamond smugglers.

Having seen half of One More Time one afternoon on THIS TV, I can assure you almost any o_O thing you're thinking about it is true.

Even the trailer is fucking unwatchable:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5xFOs7KCmA

hollyweed

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old posts that suddenly seem relevant

'Hollywood' sign changed to 'Hollyweed' in new year prank

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c5/fc/a3/c5fca3a9a2ff81c3c886c2251128ca3d.jpg

Midnight Madness (1980) - don't think this one has been posted yet!

I've just started checking out 80s All Over which is sort of a podcast equivalent to Every 70s Movie, going in chronological order - may turn up a few others in this vein...

Actually now that I see it embedded into the ILX format I think it has been posted before, probably very early in the thread - oops.

That was an HBO staple when I was a kid, I still get the theme song randomly stuck in my head sometimes

http://xxivmagazine.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Hobo-Batman-Begins-article-pic.jpg

pretty sure midnight madness was not posted yet... and it's a good one.

Whew! OK, how about:

http://images.moviepostershop.com/gorp-movie-poster-1980-1020248586.jpg

Gorp (1980)

I've just started checking out 80s All Over which is sort of a podcast equivalent to Every 70s Movie, going in chronological order - may turn up a few others in this vein...

I'm binging on this podcast right now. Thanks for the tip!

It's pretty decent! Certain tics bug me, and of course it'd be better if they'd both watched the movies really recently (though that'd be a tall order) but it does seem like they do their homework, and I like the discussions of things like how the studios must have been letting their TV divisions crank out some of the lesser movies, explaining the lifeless direction and dead lighting of the kind of films that mostly populate this thread. Would be nice if they'd bring in some guests or something over time, but I say that in part because I'm just about at my limit of "two to three dudes talk about movies" podcasts.

Yeah, they strike a decent balance between nostalgic reflection and analytical historicization, which I appreciate and--as someone who is a good 8-10 years younger than they are, but nevertheless was at least familiar with the existence of a lot of this stuff via VHS or cable--can relate to. They did seem to be tearing through some of the titles a bit too quickly at first, though; like, I doubt that the spectacular WTFness (based on the trailer) that is Die Laughing will ever receive any other forum in 2017 than this podcast, but they brush it off in about a minute. I'm all about them spending five mins on The Fog, but its not like that film hasn't been endlessly discussed in the whole podcast/80s nostalgia era.

http://www.shadowcabaret.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fearless-vampire-killers-poster.jpg

https://trashfilmguru.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/deathrow-gameshow-movie-poster-1987-1020209863.jpg