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

This is the most boring intro to a movie called the Amorous Milkman that I have ever watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=magDEVO4sCo

http://thescreeninthegutter.blogspot.com/2016/11/the-amorous-milkman-1974.html

One of the most widely reviled films in cinema history, and certainly one which most of its (now sadly deceased) participants would most likely have rather forgotten about, the Amorous Milkman - written and directed by Derren Nesbitt, who had made a bit of a name for himself playing villains, heavies and Gestapo officers, before an unsavoury domestic incident (see below) pole-axed his career - is a singularly depressing piece of work. Imagine if a low-brow, old-school, blue-collar comedian, whose regular gigs on the holiday camp / working men's club / end of the pier circuit had long since dried up, was asked to take a snapshot of his tortured, moribund soul, every last shred of human decency and sensitivity cruelly decimated by years of reducing all human experience to the level of a bawdy joke. My guess is that you'd get something very similar to this woeful offering.

From the moment the Amorous Milkman gets underway - with a shot of a novelty alarm clock which takes the shape of a little figure wanking under the covers of a doll-sized bed - you know exactly what you're in for. Subtle it isn't. Then the camera pulls back to reveal something at which the British sex comedy truly excelled, intentionally or not - capturing good old mid-seventies dinge and squalor. Our hero (Brendan Price) lives in a pokey bedsit straight out of an episode of Rising Damp, with a poster of the Incredible Hulk on the door. Even Marwood and Withnail would have drawn the line at spending a night in this hovel. You can practically smell the crinkly tissues stuffed under the bed. The outside world doesn't fare much better, either - all the exteriors seem to have been shot over the same wet, foggy and freezing week in January. This is one British film unlikely to cause ex-pats sunning themselves in the Costa Del Sol to feel even remotely homesick.

I think they're totally right about the dingy quality, and it's absolutely part of what is compelling about 70s British sex comedies, they always look kind of like William Friedkin's film version of The Birthday Party

Seriously, the first nine minutes is this:

https://i.imgur.com/AdmniwD.gif

Got a Humble Pie LP today, and this was advertised on the inner sleeve

https://img.discogs.com/zc7FVBiKUxYNb2-n78CgRBYgljo=/fit-in/593x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-855055-1299868948.jpeg.jpg

Blodwyn Pig: Getting To This

Noises Off

https://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieR)__NoisesOff(1).jpg

No: Hirschfeld is elegant, composed - the opposite of this aesthetic. And has been commissioned there because of his deep association with theatre, contra a style developed by film posters *

* plus Jack Davis ad work

yeah Hirschfeld seems like a totally different thing imo

Straying off topic but

https://i.imgur.com/fQlrXU0.jpg

Started considering how the "Amorous _________" could become the male version of the "Sexy __________" Halloween costume. O what to do if the Sexy Railroad Inspector meets the Amorous Engineer.

But then what about the whole identity of these descriptions. To put it crudely, I guess one of them is looking to score while the other is the one to be scored upon?

There's already plenty to say about the Sexy [Unsexy Profession] costume being exclusively marketed to women. What would be the differences if the Sexy/Amorous costumes were gender-reversed? What would be the wardrobe differences between a man wearing an Amorous Firefighter costume and a man wearing the Sexy Firefighter? I guess a woman's Sexy Mechanic costume would be something tight that an actual mechanic would never wear, but an Amorous Mechanic costume could just be a denim jumpsuit with the top two buttons unbuttoned?

So much to think about this Sunday morning. Probably why I don't go to Mass anymore.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTkxMDQzMTczN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMDk2NTc5NTM@._V1_.jpg

Only tangentially related but I saw the 24x36 documentary the other day and it touches on the death of these.

that film was produced on a Kickstartered budget of $52,000. I assume 50,000 was for the poster

https://b1.filmpro.ru/c/223383.jpg

this one isn't very busy/claustrophobic, but it does feature subliminal Eye of Horus

https://hollywoodsubliminals.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/short-circuit-2-1988-poster-eoh1.jpg

https://cine-images.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/tribulations-dun-chinois-2-120x160ok.jpg

https://i.jeded.com/i/up-to-his-ears-les-tribulations-dun-chinois-en-chine.15477.jpg

http://puces-privees.com/app/front/views/assets/img/uploads/objects/2875-tribulations-d-un-chinois-en-chine-les14xx200entoilee.jpg

Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine / Up To His Ears (1965)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTdjY2Q3NjYtMzc3Mi00ZTJkLTkzZTUtYzgxNDJiZjliNDg5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjQ2NDU3NDY@._V1_.jpg

All Square (2018)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMzdhY2E5YjMtZGE0MC00ZmY3LTgzODctMjUyZjllODQxMTFlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzU0NzkwMDg@._V1_.jpg

The Sex O'Clock News (1985)

jeeeeeeeez

I'm kind of amazed that All Square is from the same director who made Universal Soldier: Regeneration and Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (both of which fucking rule, btw).

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn8f-7xWsAEPUyE.jpg

They'll Love When I'm Dead, 2018

Ha, that's great! Tho I just watched the documentary, and the poster doesn't really fit its style at all. I guess because most of the events it depicts are set in the 60s and 70s, they wanted to do a homage to posters of the era?

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/372463848662_/Rare-Jerry-Goldsmith-INNERSPACE-Film-Soundtrack-OST-LP.jpg

They'll Love When I'm Dead, 2018

lol awesome

Just noticing that typo.

that version of the innerspace poster is gorgeous, god damn

http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA141023/550/ryder_pi_HN00075_C.jpg

Ryder, P.I. (1986)

Just saw one of these, framed, by the garbage up the street from me. Was overjoyed until I discovered it was badly water-damaged. :(

Saw this record this weekend

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8183/8102832251_9d1edfe468_b.jpg

Jerry Reed: Texas Bound And Flyin'

(The title track was the theme to the second Bandit movie.)

I feel like "things drawn by Jack Davis" (although obviously he is the king of this style) is sorta a different thread

i think this one counts though - title track from the movie, and i believe the drawing is meant to play up associations with the film, which does involve the transportation of an elephant in a truck. almost feels like it might have begun as rejected art for the film's poster, and they just whited out burt reynolds, sally field, jackie gleason, and iconic representations of other episodes in the film.

seconded

https://img.discogs.com/vSuSWCiBWUoYpCs5HQKlCXPl4fI=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2314896-1308391138.jpeg.jpg

listening to this the other night and thought of this thread.

i think Beer (the movie with a head on it) really missed an opportunity to be worthy of this thread
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmJjYjNkMDctY2Q0NS00MDFlLWJkMzEtNDZmNjlmM2Y3YzliXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzMzMjU5NDY@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,656,1000_AL_.jpg

Four Friends
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZGIwYjJlNjEtODdmYi00NzExLTgwY2ItMTBiMzEyZjgxMzhhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTIyNzY1NzM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,652,1000_AL_.jpg

more of a john jakes historical fiction novel style maybe

Goin' Coconuts
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZjBlZTFiYTMtNzYzOS00OWZkLWE5MzUtZGJlMzNjMjk0ODk2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,687,1000_AL_.jpg

The Apple Dumpling Gang
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTc5NDk1NDgtMThmYy00MWViLTk2ZjUtNTQyMDI1MDI0MDRjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,654,1000_AL_.jpg

Rented Lips
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODQwYjBiZDktMzkxOS00NGIwLWE0MzMtYzlkNjRjMzM1ZGE0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,652,1000_AL_.jpg

I feel like there should be one of these that's just called "Titties"

how are you still finding these, atm.

solid finds all

pp, it started with beer, which i figured HAD to have one. struck out. but it features kenneth mars, who i figured HAD to have been involved in a few of these. then i followed a few "people also liked" threads and the rest is history.

that apple DUMPLINGS! era of disney had quite a few of these

aside: i did not type DUMPLINGS! in all caps with an exclamation point! wth is happening. weird. carry on...

ok, it did it again. i'm spooked.

Thought maybe you had been bored, googling "Don Knotts", "Death by Asphyxiation".

DUMPLINGS!

l0u1s jagg3r

yarnbomb

redskins

Enjoying the Rube Goldbergesque connectedness of all the moving parts in the apple DUMPLINGS! poster, would love to find others in that subcategory

omg this one is fantastic too

http://oregonconfluence.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/LODE-poster-600x438.jpg

Opening this thread and seeing Goldblum on the "Thank God It's Friday" poster makes me want to use that as my social media avatar.

the way the mine car appears to be exploding out of an oil derrick that is bursting out of Don Knotts' chest, so good