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

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i need to see this one. to believe it.

bert convy was in all of these wasn't he

Lol

RIP Torn

http://i65.tinypic.com/117qzhj.jpg

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1416/8662/products/Smokey_Bites_the_Dust_original_film_art_spo_2000x.jpg?v=1551802924

Smokey Bites the Dust (1981)

Man, that movie looks cool! I bet there's a bunch of car chases, explosions, ramp-jumpin'... who knows, maybe a little sex and wait, SWORDS? Oh yeah! I am definitely –

Wait, wha?

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

haahhaaha

Sixpack Annie
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNzNmYmE1YjAtYTlmNi00NjA0LTk0YWQtNmZkZTEwNzM1MDc2L2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_SY1000_SX658_AL_.jpg

gave this one a shot and goddam it was depressing. couldn't continue.

wait...Six Pack-Annie? wtf

if you can stomach it, here's the opening theme song. the yt description says: "The opening scene from Sixpack Annie features a great song by Minette Allton and Melissa Wilson, performed by Tim Hayfield. The moment Annie lovably bellows "Oh... who says we're wearing any pants!" I knew I was going to like this film." to me it sounds like they sent in some lyrics to MSR to have rodd keith have a go at it. just total garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X92-sLnM9mo

Doodles Weaver is a name I know only through MST3K.

Sixpack Annie three or four years ahead of the Dukes of Hazzard with that font..

dying to see this tbh
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a7/Pandemonium_FilmPoster.jpeg

Paul Reubens, Tom Smothers and Tab Hunter, together at last!

BOOBdemonium

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

Tanya's Island is a marvel, Pandemonium would struggle to live up to it

ah sorry, it's hard to keep track of what's already been posted!

Ahem.

https://letterboxd.com/jer_fairall/list/movie-posters-done-in-a-busy-claustrophobic/

yeah w/o ppl posting the titles it’s impossible to ctrl-f! somehow I remembered the Paul Reubens citation 2 yrs later

oh crypto is that your letterboxd account??

Yup!

it's a great list! bravo for assembling. at one point i started making a google sheet for the thread with the idea of getting very precise about the genre's peak years, but got horribly bogged down by my early, foolish notion of also transcribing the taglines.

https://images2.static-bluray.com/products/20/43099_1_front.jpg

Kiss My Grits, 1982

Good one! This thread was made for movies with titles like Kiss My Grits.

I posted something about this in the Podcasts thread, but since I discovered the podcast in question here (thanks Doctor Casino!), I should mention here was really sad to learn that the 80s All Over guys were unable to see that project through to the end. A nostalgic and informative listen for 80s kids like me, and a great source for material for this thread.

https://www.80sallover.com/podcast/2019/7/1/psn7ptm90dfxaieh9a8qz9dnsnioky

I wonder how many people went to that movie and we're disappointed that it wasn't about Flo.

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/179/MPW-89808

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, 1968 (Frank Tashlin's final film)

perfect encapsulation of the 60s "type," nice.

There's elements of this style on Bob Hope posters going back to the '40s!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjg1YzRmY2ItMmI4Yi00ZWE0LThhMGEtOWMzNWUyN2I3YTAzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTY4NjI2OTA@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,660,1000_AL_.jpg

Let's Face It, 1943

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTU5MjA5YTMtYzMzMi00ZDQxLWE0YjItNjk2MGMwNzQ0MjQyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE5MjUyOTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg

The Iron Petticoat, 1956

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5MXM0/where-theres-life-us-poster-bob-hope-signe-hasso-1947-E5MXM0.jpg

Where There's Life, 1947

Oddly enough, it wasn't until The Road to Hong Kong (the last Road To... movie, from 1962), that this style was tentatively embraced...

https://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/victorian-shed-movie-posters-2/ROADTOHONGKONG1SHHRws.jpg

ALSO: Racist Stereotypes!

Related: A number of John Schlesinger films are going up on the Criterion Channel in September, including HONKY TONK FREEWAY.

Bless This House
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjVlMGZkNjctZWEwZS00NDgzLTg0MmItZGY4MDNkODkxOWI0XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjI4MjA5MzA@._V1_.jpg

George and Mildred
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmM4ZTgzNjctZGU0Mi00YmZiLTllN2QtYTBhZmUyOGZmYzE5XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg

...and a new personal fave

Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTcwNjNiZDgtOWNlNS00YWQwLWJjZmUtOTIzZjBmNmIxZWNiXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjIyNjE2NA@@._V1_.jpg

Wtf at that title? 😅

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Sex Pistols

in the george and mildred, i'm sure they meant for the officer (?) to look like he's crashing his bike, but it looks more like he's pulling some badass freestyle move.

nb to most of the world: andrew's three excellent contributions are all big-screen spinoffs of 1970s UK TV sitcoms

hahaha, on George & Mildred:

Released [weeks] after the death of star Yootha Joyce, the film was neither a commercial nor a critical success. One critic has described the film as "one of the worst films ever made in Britain . . . so strikingly bad, it seems to have been assembled with a genuine contempt for its audience." A writer for The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms. The film aired on television on Christmas Day 1980, only a couple of months after its theatrical release.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Are_you_being_served_320x240.jpg

Are You Being Served: The Movie, 1977

what does NRC stand for? Not Recommended Cinema?!

Not Recommended for Children. Replaced with PGR in the early '80s, later shortened to PG.

love how every name on that poster is presumably a household name in britain but to american eyes appears to be the work of a hack comic generating fake british names

they were sort-of household names from appearing in the popular sitcom of the same name, which has probably been rescreened 923x more often in the US than the UK over the last 45 years

Yeah, Are You Being Served ran on Houston PBS regularly for like 20 years. For awhile in the '90s it was on five nights a week!

apologies to sugden & bannister, LLC