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

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Forgot about that movie.

Robert Gotopieces (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 December 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link

Poster makes that look way more amazing than it probably is.

Absolutely otm, but it's a dece enough thriller. The linked US poster sets the tone better, at the expense of Moore's anti-Bondian asexuality.

huge rant (sic), Sunday, 13 December 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link

Heard your mum was starring in Slagskämpen.

huge rant (sic), Sunday, 13 December 2020 23:43 (three years ago) link

four-star, three-poster find

Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link

Oh man, that sounds dope

Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 18 December 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link

kinda surprised you haven't seen it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWHNA_j7h5A

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Friday, 18 December 2020 03:43 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/eHzH00y.jpg

Friday Foster, 1975



(and here's a clearer version, way too hueg for the thread)

huge rant (sic), Saturday, 19 December 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link

Those character names are ones Dirk Diggler rejected.

Dan Worsley, Saturday, 19 December 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link

i would likely live a better life if, everywhere I went, I opened all my conversations with "WHAM! BAM! HERE COMES PAM!"

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 19 December 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link

^ best English-language comics adaptation of the 1970s btw

huge rant (sic), Saturday, 19 December 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/ZlbbUv6.jpg

The Pom Pom Girls, 1976



(and again, a clear enough to read, 2 huge for thread version)

huge rant (sic), Saturday, 19 December 2020 20:02 (three years ago) link

How??!

huge rant (sic), Sunday, 20 December 2020 19:38 (three years ago) link

Another one with several variations:

https://i.imgur.com/8Mt5ueP.jpg

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

https://i.imgur.com/CMw5vkN.jpg

(this one from Letterboxd, probably a blu-ray cover recomposited from elements in an archive?)

https://i.imgur.com/9Gmzzj9.jpg

Fitzwilly, 1967

huge rant (sic), Monday, 21 December 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link

Heard your mum Fitzwilly too tbh.

huge rant (sic), Monday, 21 December 2020 19:17 (three years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/Df9xGTD.jpg

Best Friends, 1975

huge rant (sic), Wednesday, 23 December 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link

How'd they get the finger to move like that though.

pplains, Monday, 4 January 2021 20:51 (three years ago) link

must have been expensive to print

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 4 January 2021 21:01 (three years ago) link

All kidding aside, someone must've ... cast a mild hex ... on Grisso for trying to post that.

pplains, Monday, 4 January 2021 21:13 (three years ago) link

did Weekend At Bernie's rip off Rip Torn

shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 01:36 (three years ago) link

"scare the hex out of you" is a real dad pun

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 5 January 2021 03:27 (three years ago) link

it'll be more claustrophobic once they get busy

https://i.imgur.com/SfX9d2A.jpg

Group Marriage, 1973

(also hueg)

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 00:48 (three years ago) link

^ more from one crowded year in the oeuvre of writer and director Stephanie Rothman:

https://i.imgur.com/PvEGqvY.jpeg

Terminal Island, 1973

https://i.imgur.com/gK2fSiJ.jpeg

Beyond Atlantis, 1973

(she only has a story credit on this: when John Wayne's son was cast in the lead, he insisted that the underwater tits be written out. no idea if the two facts are related.)


https://i.imgur.com/KvDU2UR.jpeg

The Working Girls, 1974

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 09:08 (three years ago) link

COVER CONNECTIONS

https://i.imgur.com/AqJ9K5Y.jpeg

Ebony, Ivory & Jade, 1976

(posted by crypto last year)

https://i.imgur.com/wcKoXmC.jpeg

Black Shampoo, 1976

shivers me timber (sic), Monday, 11 January 2021 19:30 (three years ago) link

While we're bringing the hits back, two of these were posted by soref in 2018, but to get them teamed up with a (sadly watermarked) third:

https://i.imgur.com/bdum8v6.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/DBleDSl.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Bfj0Ksj.jpeg

shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:10 (three years ago) link

Not Now Darling, from the stage play "Not Now Darling"

Ray Cooney as "Crotch"

SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SF (stevie), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:55 (three years ago) link

What on earth is being skipped in those pullquote ellipses?

shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 10:30 (three years ago) link

lol

Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 14:16 (three years ago) link

better view of the Hirschfeld on the VHS poster:

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/newsite/movies/1970s/1976/reg/ritz_vid.jpg

shivers me timber (sic), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:21 (three years ago) link

Speaking of baffling punctuation in pullquotes:

https://i.imgur.com/zhc9hF0.jpeg

The Doberman Gang, 1972.

shivers me timber (sic), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 19:53 (three years ago) link

hahahahaha

Ray Cooney as "Crotch" (stevie), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:07 (three years ago) link

entertainment for exciting families only

the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 13 January 2021 21:47 (three years ago) link

Is your family STAID and BORING? Would they be SHOCKED to see a MAN TORN APART by TRAINED DOGS beneath a PEACH-LIKE ASS in TIGHT PEACH HIPSTERS? Then STAY AWAY from THE DOBERMAN GANG, lame-o!

shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 01:23 (three years ago) link

Rated PG.

shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link

Folks were hardier back then.

"what are you DOING to fleetwood mac??" (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 14 January 2021 02:03 (three years ago) link

They toned things down for the sequel, presumably to make it more accessible.

https://i.imgur.com/kCxA1ik.jpeg

shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:03 (three years ago) link

(The Daring Dobermans, 1973)

shivers me timber (sic), Thursday, 14 January 2021 03:04 (three years ago) link

tbqh i was not really expecting the dobermans to be running for office

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link

maybe they do that in the first one

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 14 January 2021 12:58 (three years ago) link


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