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

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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

Sugden Bannister & English

I was just trying to think of what someone in the states would know them from aside from AYBS, and...

All I got is Nicholas Smith voicing the vicar in the Wallace & Gromit movie, and Frank Thornton is in Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad for about 30 seconds...which reminds me that Wendy Richard got cut out of Help!

Writer Jeremy Lloyd was on Laugh-In.

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The Vals, 1983

Apparently was remarketed as The Valley Girls after Valley Girl hit.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDhjN2M0ODAtNzFiMy00YjQ0LWI2ZmEtZjNhYzQ3MzY2ZmQ2XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTMxMTY0OTQ@._V1_.jpg

Vicious Lips, 1986

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTk3NDAxY2UtZjBiZS00MzhkLTgxYzktNzRmMzNmMGUxY2ZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

Hot T-Shirts, 1980

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTk3NDAxY2UtZjBiZS00MzhkLTgxYzktNzRmMzNmMGUxY2ZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

C.O.D., 1981 (cast also includes Samantha Fox and Ron Jeremy)

Oops

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODQ5ODk2NDc1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzM3ODQzNA@@._V1_.jpg

An Albert Pyun joint and *two* Chuck Vincents! The thread continues to deliver!!

And all it took was IMDB'ing Gwen Verdon, seeing she had a role in a TV sequel to The Jerk, clicking on it and falling in a 'More Like This' clickhole.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BN2ZmMWQyOWUtMzFjYi00ODAwLThlZWQtZTY4NzYzYWUwNDliXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjUyNDk2ODc@._V1_SY999_CR0,0,657,999_AL_.jpg

Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978)

Leonard Maltin likes that movie one-star better than Taxi Driver.

RIP Robert Forster

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The Kinky Coaches And The Pom-Pom Pussycats (AKA Heartbreak High), 1981

https://dyn1.heritagestatic.com/lf?set=path%5B1%2F4%2F9%2F0%2F1490291%5D%2Csizedata%5B850x600%5D&call=url%5Bfile%3Aproduct.chain%5D

Chattanooga Choo Choo, 1984

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/55638.jpg

The Happy Thieves (1961)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYWUzOTQ0MzAtODIyNy00OWQyLWE5YmUtZmZmYjBlMWExMDNjL2ltYWdlL2ltYWdlXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_UY1200_CR78,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

The Boyfriend (1971)

https://static-batch.greatbigcanvas.com/images/print_rolled_posterpaper/movie-goods/the-phantom-tollbooth-1970,mg0081711.jpg

The Phantom Tollbooth (1970)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/12/A70-6334

Scrooge (1971)

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/518eFjS%2BqlL.jpg

Black Caesar (1973)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/122/MPW-61037

Electra Glide In Blue (1973)

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