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

http://i.imgur.com/2FbGunT.jpg?1

The "International Thriller" genre that flourished from the 70s through to the early 80s (aka, my favourite genre of films to fall asleep to on a lazy Sunday afternoon) is gold for this thread.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_t4imCZ3BYc/WNVPCo11gWI/AAAAAAAAMVM/lTQwdGbDt_cOuVtrV-7pYsSyM-1FkUZoACLcB/s1600/Live%2Ba%2BLittle%2BSteal%2Ba%2BLot.jpg

Live a Little, Steal a Lot (aka, Murph the Surf) [1975]

that ones great

Think this is another Mad artist, Jack Rickard, doing a Jack Davis:

https://scontent.fman2-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/17499110_10210632578424777_6330577998974206509_n.jpg?oh=2c3d6f8caf6c1791b606c95e87d876a7&oe=595F46FA

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

how could they afford to make so many of these films no one's heard of? tax losses? were many just ultra-cheap? it's insane!

Cheap to make + less competitive cinema scene (and generally NO competition for first-run kiddie fare) + captive markets in places like overseas army bases + guaranteed TV advert revenue when it goes to The Wonderful World of Disney + vinyl record, storybooks, other miscellaneous tie-ins + some of these were actually popular and successful in their own right? I think?

And also cash-ins were much easier to turn around and execute. Hence all the copycat American Graffitis, Smokeys, Meatballs etc.--most of which were in theatres within a year of the originals.

^^Obviously I'm speaking in more general terms than I think the Doc was. Disney is a thing unto its own: They had an assembly line going with loads of contract people running without fail up until the 80s anyway, and even after that they merely adjusted the model to emphasize cable content.

There's something ... I dunno, comforting about all these cartoon drawings of actors.

And the really long straplines, several sentences.

fwiw the true story of murph the surf: http://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/jack-roland-murphy-murph-the-surf/crime

what do you look like holding a newly-framed movie poster done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s?

https://imgur.com/a/RdbVO

https://i.imgur.com/uR985Ed.jpg

great pick! Have long thought that if I ever were to get a framed poster of anything, it'd be something from this thread.

oh hell yah g8080 thats so siqq.

i just watched this batshit movie.

https://alchetron.com/cdn/Pandemonium-film-images-9ba724f8-cfce-460b-9abc-e0d7c4a788f.jpg

Paul Reubens
(Pee-Wee Herman)

Also, from the director of Alice Sweet Alice. Hmm.

A bit more research on Alfred Sole turns up one other film that he directed (aside from Alice and Pandemonium), called Tanya's Island and starring Vanity. The poster doesn't really fit this thread, but this plot synopsis deserves to be preserved here:

Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo’s constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is an enormous blue-eyed man-ape who was born from one of Lobo’s paintings.

bit cruel drawing Judge Reinhold as a horse

thought that Tom Smothers might have a few of these and I was right

Get To Know Your Rabbit (1972):

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/110/MPW-55064

There Goes The Bride (1980):

https://img0.etsystatic.com/042/0/8366695/il_570xN.605091034_s8mg.jpg

you can buy the second one here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190360021/there-goes-the-bride-1980-movie-poster

which actor or actress has appeared on the highest number of these posters? Tim Conway? Elliot Gould?

I feel like Roger Moore is probably up there too, not only because his tenure as Bond coincided with this era, but also due to his propensity for starring in all of those off-brand "international thrillers" as well.

That rating sticker on the Get To Know Your Rabbit poster conveniently covering up Director Brian DePlama's name.

xp Gr80 that is sweet

http://images.moviepostershop.com/penelope-movie-poster-1966-1020236862.jpg

Penelope (1966)

On the list of actors who've done movies with posters like these, Jonathan Winters has to be high up there.

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieF)__Stitches(1).jpg

Dig that tagline:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOWMwY2M5ODQtNTNjZC00ZDQzLTg4ZDgtMWRkYjg1NmE0Y2ZiL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_UY1200_CR79,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

Mortuary Academy (1988)

alternative Mortuary Academy with alternative tagline:

https://www.cinematerial.com/media/posters/md/md/mdtww59r.jpg?v=1456605408

this one is pretty similar to the above, but on the top row they've added a condom in the guy's right hand, and some tits

http://www.benitomovieposter.com/catalog/images/movieposter/30672.jpg

Damn, Nedra Volz lived to be 95.

80s All Over continues to deliver the goods:

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/201/MPW-100681

Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

good link that i found through the frank frazetta article upthread: http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2012/01/jack-rickards-movie-posters.html

meanwhile i'm continuing my long-abandoned project of spreadsheeting all these movies, with taglines and dates. probably redundant to cryptosicko's Letterboxd list but it's something i started ages ago so... hey.

anyway one thing that struck me, cataloguing taglines, is how many of these posters, especially in the post-Animal House era, lean on calling out other, better films by name, e.g. What "Stripes" did to the Army, What "Police Academy" did to law enforcement... These guys do to scouting! for "The Wrong Guys," or that attempt by "Take This Job and Shove It" to suggest Hays's presence means you're in for something somehow descended from or connected to Airplane! can't recall seeing that kind of naked credibility-grabbing in more recent years - did the big studios crack down at some point, maybe secure a legal precedent that invoking their films was intended to mislead the audience about who made the films or something?

another running theme, apparently a wackiness signifier: really precise numbers, as where the town in "Cold Turkey" has 4,006 people trying to quit smoking and collect the cash prize, or where the dollar amount at stake in The Fortune Cookie is $249,000.92.

You only thought Will Ferrell was 'Old School'... Just wait until you see "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy'!

In theaters, July 2004

Spotted this a while back but didn't post it because it seems more of a straight illustration. However, in light of DC mentioning "calling out other, better films by name":

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-y41-o8IPFf4/UeoWnQ-o83I/AAAAAAAACaY/NxfEq_aYahQ/s1600/Lovelines+soundtrack+%20unreleased%20+%201984%20.jpg

i think that counts in its way. i definitely wouldn't broaden the genre to include all illustrations, but definitely part of it is a welcoming of density and lots of little human bodies in the frame, even if not especially cartoonified - the claustrophobia and absence of demands to get the faces nice and big are critical.

Mortuary Academy looks amazing. It's not even listed on Paul Bartel's wikipedia page

SPECIAL APPEARANCES BY WOLFMAN JACK AND CESAR ROMERO

Bartel's filmography seems like I could just watch these in order for a year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bartel#Filmography

Munchies AND Gremlins 2, impressive

SO many movies postered in this thread are available in their entirety on YouTube for free - coincidence or FACT?

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZWJhOTBjNTYtZWFjMy00NzM2LWIzYWItZGZmOThkMzBiZTY3XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjI2MDIzNTA@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,551,1000_AL_.jpg
Mugsy's Girls (1984)

Very good find, surprised it'd escaped us for so long! Deezen, "Animal House" shout-out... and a very late performance by the onetime headlining stage actress Ruth Gordon, who'd pass away at the age of 88 the following year. Folks my age know her best from Harold and Maude, but previous claustro-carico work includes The Big Bus and Clint Eastwood's chimpanzee duology.

Featuring Teacup as Himself - is this the name of some third-tier 80s comic with whom I'm unfamiliar? Or just the name of the rabbit?

Was Animal House really that popular six years later?

"If you thought the gals from Bridesmaids were crazy, meet Craig's Groomsmen! Starring Phillip Baker Hall as Craig."

Animal House launched a whole subgenre of movies that got these posters, and none of them became in any way iconic so I guess they were all still stuck referring to the original.

BTW speaking of the "and remember that other movie" type of poster --- C. Grisso posted a French version of S*P*Y*S (1974) in the early days of this thread, but the differently-drawn American poster hits that theme really hard...

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/spysposter.jpg

...as does the trailer. Which also incidentally conveys nothing moreso than "this movie will be a painful unfunny bore that looks like a made-for-TV job." The British poster backs this up solidly:

http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/SPYGS450.jpg

https://www.movieforums.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=15129&stc=1&d=1400943426

Angel in My Pocket (1969)

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/happy_birthday_gemini_original_film_art.jpg

Happy Birthday, Gemini (1980)