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

like these:

http://i.imgur.com/S2B1s74.jpg

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

http://images.moviepostershop.com/cannonball-run-2-movie-poster-1984-1020248508.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/best_little_whorehouse_in_texas_xlg.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/48575.1020.A.jpg

http://www.americanartarchives.com/davis,j_mad_world1963.jpg

sorry, I missed the '70s/'80s part

The Long Goodbye one is in the tradition of this, I guess, or of Mad magazine: (x-post, speaking of!)

http://images.wikia.com/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad/images/1/1f/It

Double x-post, yikes!

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/a-house-1-copy-enlarge.jpg

machete kills has a poster like this.

(in this tradition, that is)

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

detroit rock city?

xp no caricatures though nm

detroit rock city?

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!! yes

and Mallrats!

FYI this movie owns:

http://i.imgur.com/DXdVv3Q.jpg

http://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/14/13101/full-972x1440/51e16f50/wet_hot_american_summer.jpeg

woah japanese take on this style:

http://i.imgur.com/yW1UCNL.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Kzo3Ryg.jpg

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/american-graffiti.jpg?w=584

http://images.moviefanatic.com/iu/t_full/v1364991767/the-fish-that-saved-pittsburgh-poster.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-c/cooley_high_poster_02.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-s/slaughters_big_rip_off_poster_01.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-b/bamboo_gods_and_iron_men_poster_01.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/XacS5Ol.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uSJJJqa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ek6HzV8.jpg

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

http://i.imgur.com/Mnz5Z7Y.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3lIx48u.jpg

http://adammcdaniel.com/RichardAmsel2.htm

http://i.imgur.com/Zo51FL9.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9CXyAxn.jpg

http://www.filmonpaper.com/site/media/2011/05/ConquestofthePlanetoftheApes_B2_Japan-1-500x703.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/dDoCZ0T.jpg

I've never seen that Nashville poster upthread before! Altman's preferred poster artwork ended up on the soundtrack instead:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/files/2009/08/04/img-nashville_105700420061.jpg

Came up on my Nashville image search:

http://attackofthekillerlibrarian.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/barrylyndon2.jpg?w=449&h=640

http://i.imgur.com/G70HDmh.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/California_split.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/yOdPW08.jpg

Every Bond movie of that period to thread...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Live_and_Let_Die-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg

http://wpc.556e.edgecastcdn.net/80556E/img.news/NExYbO1rjwxqAF_1_1.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/california_suite.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg
Wikipedia's alt text:
A man in a dinner jacket holding a pistol is in the centre of the picture. Various scenes and images surround him, including two women in bikinis, a midget with a pistol, a car stunt and explosions. At the bottom right, oversized and pointing towards the man in the dinner jacket, is a golden gun, with a hand holding a bullet, about to load the gun. The top of the picture has the words "ROGER MOORE as JAMES BOND 007". At the bottom are the words "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN"

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lschmxxO8P1r13zreo1_400.jpg

Charltonem Hestonem

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/MPW-5611

http://www.filmbrain.com/photos/uncategorized/crackers2.jpg

http://blogintomystery.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/heavymetalmoebiusb.jpg?w=367&h=500

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38847

http://www.authortonypiazza.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Freebie-Poster.jpg

Jack Davis rakin the bucks back then

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

http://i2.listal.com/image/145793/600full-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-poster.jpg

(Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

http://i.imgur.com/9L5uH9S.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg

ha i guess these are all Jack Davis

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c8/e6/66/c8e666e6e3b2f743be1382d638f4c190.jpg

Everything about Boogie Nights has to do with the '70s, and sure enough, that extends to the poster, too.

http://mrrumsey.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boogie_nights_ver1.jpg?w=300

(A couple of the images above aren't showing up for me at work, so sorry if it's already been posted.)

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/harper_valley_pta_ver1.jpg

http://blogwaybaby.com/Harper%20Valley%20PTA.jpg

http://ilarge.listal.com/image/135818/968full-the-cheap-detective-photo.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/hot_stuff.jpg

http://product-images.highwire.com/58136/69892.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ibs2wXDLL._SY300_.jpg

SPIES poster is by moebius
american graffiti by mort drucker

http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_films/carry_on_girls/images/poster.jpg

http://i2.listal.com/image/137827/600full-what%27s-up%2C-doc%3F-poster.jpg

^best movie

WONDERFUL THREAD

have long wanted there to be a name for this basically vanished genre of movie poster illustration, this shit was like 75% of any video store i ever visited as a kid. Especially great for actually kinda serious heavy movies like California Split.

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:58 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Harry and Walter Go To New York! With Michael Caine & Diane Keaton! It's actually pretty good, not great, but entertaining nonetheless. The two bits of trivia from the imdb:
The film went massively overbudget and caused such a major cash crisis that Columbia Pictures nearly went out of business until a fund of German dentists, Cinerenta, agreed to help

co-finance the studio's other films.

After disastrous previews, Columbia heavily cut the film down. Director Mark Rydell claimed most of the film's jokes were the main victims.

That triva should read:

The film went massively overbudget and caused such a major cash crisis that Columbia Pictures nearly went out of business until a fund of German dentists, Cinerenta, agreed to help co-finance the studio's other films.

After disastrous previews, Columbia heavily cut the film down. Director Mark Rydell claimed most of the film's jokes were the main victims.

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/13051/cockfighter_poster_01__span.jpg

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/13051/cockfighter_poster_01__span.jpg

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

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

Grandma's Boy

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/night_shift.jpg

xp Rat Race

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/106719.1020.A.jpg

http://grindhousefilms.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/jackiebrown.gif?w=600

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Blazing_Stewardesses.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/1218__x400_enter_the_dragon_poster_003.jpg

The giffed-up art for Jackie Brown is very appropriate for its time.

And this is the second time today Freebie & The Bean has come up in conversation.

boob spotted on blazing stewardesses, boob on blazing stewardesses

lol at the Euro translated titles for "The End"

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.

re: these posters in video rental places, always musty-smelling and discolored by years of sunlight through the front windows.

I think Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould's faces were made specifically to be caricatured this way

more jack davis.

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/impossibledavisOSreduced.jpg

and will elder

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/87/MPW-43732

frank frazetta

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEFHoNt9z-Q/TwhnQG3Y0LI/AAAAAAAABvE/HDVIyDGZw-Q/s1600/hotel_paradiso.jpg

Little Annie Fanny All-Stars

http://images.moviepostershop.com/first-family-movie-poster-1980-1020232871.jpg

Great thread! I used to hate these, but now that there's more historical distance I love them. Although I do have some nostalgia for the context that I used to seem them in, as the covers of 15 year old VHS tapes in tiny rural gas station video rental sections.

Jesus, Mad Magazine all up in this thread.

My contrib:

http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/black_dynamite_ver3.jpg

Not quite caricature, I guess.

http://www.reggiesworld.com/media/bakery/images/item308/dolemite-poster.jpg

http://ygrael.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/human_tornado_poster_01.jpg

http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/BLACK-SAMURAI.jpg

I forgot the Agent for DRAGON part

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/120/1200180/6invasion_of_bee_girls_1318804567.jpg

Anybody else notice that the Choose Your Own Adventure books kept up this motif long after movie posters had discarded it?

1968, but noteworthy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YyFxKgm8npo/T6976b2X5jI/AAAAAAAABMc/ZeWGrhzS9AA/s1600/theparty_poster.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/69/MPW-34757

http://cdn.chud.com/6/6a/350x517px-6abdfbb8_cold-turkey-movie-poster-1971-1020228329.jpeg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QmmW1rm_QrQ/TmpVPsvgCLI/AAAAAAAAAag/AVoOAG-8E2c/s1600/Superdad.jpg

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/ranchodeluxeOS.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DPYUVscSG9I/UZZ1LoGM7wI/AAAAAAAAVfA/LqtnTygzEFs/s1600/Rancho+Deluxe.jpg

http://jackdavisfoundation.org/gallery/movie-posters

dunno what the hell some of them are looking at here but whatever it is.. isn't there!

http://www.cedmagic.com/v-title-database/chor/california-suite-1.jpg

great thread!

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/crime_busters.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Gumball_rally_movie_poster.jpg

http://www.sci-fimovieposters.co.uk/images/posters-s/S-0096_Soylent_Green_quad_movie_poster_l.jpg

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

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-super-cops-movie-poster-1974-1020232706.jpg

Wow, Soylent Green looks like a madcap comedy!

http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Amazing-Grace-1974.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/sleeper-movie-poster-1974-1010711763.jpg

For some reason, I was convinced Meatballs had one of these, but, apparently not. Also, man...lotta lotta movies I never heard of. The amazing thing about this art style (for the ones that are actually in the thread-specified style) is how, the more the poster screams wacky screwball hijinks flying every which way, the more you know the movie's going to be a sluggish, hokey affair with a lot of bland mugging in front of a stock-still camera in mildly offbeat locations, etc.

Not a movie poster, but in-genre:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla

sorry for huge

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg

ugh, are those not working?

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106605.1020.A.jpg

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_10/1980/0081159/l_141055_0081159_96279668.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Poster_sunday_lovers.jpg

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/midnight-madness-1980.jpg

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/hollywood-knights-1980.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/48580.1020.A.jpg

http://the1980movieproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/american_success_company.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/scavenger-hunt-movie-poster-1979-1020231488.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/summer-camp-movie-poster-1979-1020248614.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/more-american-graffiti-movie-poster-1979-1020193098.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-baltimore-bullet-movie-poster-1980-1020278161.jpg

^^^ I like how by this point nobody really seems to be moving all that fast, compared to It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World... there's been a real loss of madcap will and screwball faith.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-gods-must-be-crazy-movie-poster-1982-1020265381.jpg

And, now that I've spammed the thread to oblivion: Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Seems_like_old_times_movie_poster.jpg

Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?

Bingo. It's more profitable to do just one design on the cheap that will be the poster, dvd/bluray cover etc. What's really striking me about some many of these is how verbose they are re:pitch/loglines instead of rehashing critical quotes.

Anyway, back to regular programming...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Hamburger_The_Motion_Picture_poster.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/73/MPW-36717.jpg

also, how much does a poster image matter to movie promotion nowadays compared to back then.

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/last_american_virgin.jpg

I mean...

http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/movie/00/48/90/the-last-american-virgin-698551l.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3474.jpg

http://sp3.imgs.sapo.pt/0009/60/79/5a/60795ac406eb3ef756bf021dc226b3e2.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jq_EW2EYrOw/UZUG0GFD_AI/AAAAAAAAFQ0/-20pyjE3RXk/s1600/High-Ballin

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qyf3yv2AGKA/UfAOP2BRB8I/AAAAAAAAFiY/rOsMkkyq16o/s1600/Checkered+Flag+or+Crash.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-ihqTjoYfh_8/TX-tNvDb5dI/AAAAAAAAAM4/98ylt-hSNWY/s1600/Great+Smokey+Roadblock.jpg

on golden pond has a lack of busy and caricature style.

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTIzMTM3NDMyNV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwODUyODAyMQ@@._V1_.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/rafferty-and-the-gold-dust-twins-movie-poster-1975-1020234909.jpg

http://www.stargatecinema.com/images/magictoolbox_cache/3bf842518f40ca6b8a10b619b8e02daf/2/3/23044/thumb400x400/2808-04.jpg

It still amazes me what a huge fucking deal Smokey and the Bandit was. Like, of all the movies to reverberate all through american culture, why that one?

Not sure, but coincidentally http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-hal-needham/

Dude, have you ever seen Smokey & The Bandit?

Sure there was the space movie in 1977, but nothing says Welcome to Carter Country like S&TB.

Also Jackie Gleason.

S&TB knock-offs were also easier to make on the cheap. All the fx were live things with cars & trucks, and usually the whole film would wrap in in less than 40 days. The commentary on The Cannonball Run dvd reveals just how easy it was to make a film like that.

Unrelated: Sorry about the two Rafferty posters...the first one wasn't showing up after I posted it.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/93/MPW-46753

^^Also note that Animal House was a phenomena similar to that of S&TB.

http://www.emovieposter.com/images/moviestars/AA130709/550/6sh_fitzwilly_JC07899_L.jpg

http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img/item/187/717/026/dick-van-dyke-and-bob-newhart-in-cold-turkey-b79dc.jpg

was there ever a less-loved sequel to a hugely successful film than More American Graffiti?

Good question. Grease 2 would be a contender. Or The Exorcist II: The Heretic.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/Goodbye-Pork-Pie_zps50079b4f.jpg

i wanna watch all of these movies btw, including ones like this that i know i've watched even tho i can't remember a thing about it

^exactly my reaction. Also: would totally put these posters up in my house.

Yeah, no matter how disappointing it'd probably be, there's something about these posters that just makes you wanna give it a go. I wonder how many of these I've seen as five-to-twenty-minute blips when I was just channel surfing as a kid in the 80s and early 90s. I bet they made for good USA filler.

http://garywarnett.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/fraternityrow.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/Montecarlo.jpeg

I wonder if you did a breakdown of these, how many would be fraternity movies, versus mixed-up romances with a dumb theme, versus "great race" scenarios...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-az5xP5vQYww/UV9nMKeSziI/AAAAAAAAAcQ/yxcDdLiqSBc/s1600/bnb.png

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106793.1020.A.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/23/A70-11854

http://i2.listal.com/image/136185/600full-high-anxiety-poster.jpg

(couldn't find linkable English one at legible size but you get the idea)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/slap-shot-movie-poster-1977-1020465938.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38850

^^^ this is worth watching as an illuminating period piece, ime

oops, gr8080 already got that one, sorry

Alternate version of The Big Bus. They seem to have re-done these with the bus tilting at various angles to fit different formats.

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/05_06/1976/0074205/l_19782_0074205_fb8369e7.jpg

http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/data/0004156/affiche-le-bus-en-folie-the-big-bus-1976-1.jpg

ugh, nevermind

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/A70-5794

and then, an awkward transitional phase:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg/404px-National_Lampoons_Class_Reunion_movie_poster.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/meatballs-2-movie-poster-1984-1020248531.jpg

I KNEW there was a Meatballs one! Well done.

http://i.imgur.com/sk8ZdVN.png

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/117/MPW-58968

Don Knotts must hold the record for appearing in this type of poster.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/200-motels-movie-poster-1971-1020144185.jpg

if i was a skilled illustrator and a few thousand tumblr followers, i'd do a series of posters in this style for movies from the period that never had one.

just imagining:

apocalypse now
the shining
dune
cocoon
close encounters
blue velvet
caligula

lol

It is sort of amazing that Caligula didn't have one of these.

hahaa, i was thinking of the same idea, how great these would be applied to the 'wrong' movies - but unfortunately it requires a lot more talent and time than wacky photoshoppery...

Close Encounters a great pick because it's in some sense a "road" movie so the S-shaped line of cartoon people chasing their way down the poster would work out great. Anything with a big cast basically works.

Also funny how the bodies get bigger and the style more realistic based on how many of the stars are considered sex symbols. The all-male middle-aged comedian revues seem to be populated entirely by grinning gnomes, but Goldie Hawn is always legible.

I'm picturing a tiny animation of Malcolm McDowell fisting some poor soldier in a corner of the poster.

There must be people on tumblr who do commissions, right? I don't think I die happy without seeing that Blue Velvet poster now I've heard the idea.

A lot of these films had Mad magazine spoofs drawn in this kind of style, right? I guess someone could photoshop them into posters.

After a great deal of browsing, I feel confident in saying this style basically petered out by 1982 or so. There are stragglers, but it's really apparent when you see a poster for something like Screwballs or this one for Smokey and the Bandit III, which is still cartoony but really not the same kind of thing:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/Sandbpart3.jpg

This is where I wonder again what really killed this off. It can't just be the "easier to photo-collage" angle I suggested above, because clearly people were still doing lots of fully hand-illustrated posters for ages after this.

Starting to think "Carter-era" as mentioned above is really dead-on, notwithstanding precedents like It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.

When did contracts start requiring that the star's face be a certain % of the poster?

Bought a dollar VHS of The Cannonball Run inspired by this thread. Ugggggggh. We gave up after fifteen minutes.

http://i.imgur.com/3nJQs6V.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/8GElLMT.jpg

^^Good one. The bottom one is the art on my dvd, which has since been replaced by this:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b6ATnCRLL.jpg

Russ Meyer didn't use this style enough

Image NSFW

http://www.favouritefilm.com/acatalog/BEYONDTHEVALLEYFRENCH.jpg

The latter inspired this:
http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/300W/i/2010/244/0/1/ultravixens_by_claudia_r-d2xruq2.jpg

It's amazing how much the middle Night Shift poster makes me want to see the movie. The DVD cover of course has an opposite effect of similar strength.

http://www.moviegoods.com/large_detail.asp?http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/554549.1020.A.jpg

Grisso reminded me of this 1987 poster:

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/7181/amazonwomenonthemooneh1.jpg

saw these two IRL tonite, for sale at a record store (both jack davis):

http://i.imgur.com/7Vknrzr.png

http://i.imgur.com/H6cKxuk.png

God, SDJR was in like, half of these.

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/99/MPW-49596

A friend just posted this one to her Facebook. Pretty fucking compelling cast, there.

Zalman King!

woah zalman king's first producer and writer credits

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-bingo-long-traveling-all-stars-and-motor-kings-movie-poster-1976-1020314381.jpg

Thrifted this one today. I have high hopes, though to be honest I would only like to laugh and have excitement.

American Hustle needed a poster like those ITT.

wolf of wall street too

Or "Argo", with an angry elbows-flailing Khomeini caricature up in the corner

http://www.filmlinks4u.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Madhouse-1990-%E2%80%93-Hollywood-Movie-Watch-Online.jpg

from 1990! This must be one of the last examples of this sort of style, surely?

whoever it was up-thread who said that these posters all make you want to watch the movies despite knowing they're mostly terrible was otm.
has anyone seen 'First Family'? A film starring Gilda Radner and Bob Newhart can't be totally worthless, right?

watching the trailers for some of these films on youtube is interesting, the voiceovers are giving the same kind of 'this movie is totally wacky and fun!' hard-sell as the posters, but at the very same time you can see actual clips from the film disproving this.

http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111103164719/doblaje/es/images/3/3a/Noviembrerosa.jpg

This one is from 1990 too, but yeah, it seems this aesthetic had died by the 90s.

Though I would argue that the basic aesthetic is still alive in "zany" comedy posters, it's just that the Jack Davis style caricatures have been replaced with digitally manipulated photos:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TKzvfeV488A/UXSZCBzI_yI/AAAAAAAABXg/_Ok1WdDB3Nw/s1600/Rat%2BRace%2Bposter.jpg

http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/scary-movie-5-poster01.jpg

that rat race poster is hideous

http://vol11.music-bazaar.com/album-images/vol11/521/521153/2353810-big/Les-Aventures-De-Rabbi-Jacob-cover.jpg

http://img11.hostingpics.net/pics/374573LESRIPOUX1.jpg

Now I'm curious: was there actually an elephant in Madhouse?

"Rat Race" is awful but at least they were trying to do one of "these." "Madhouse" and "Going Under" really show you the gig is up - they're slightly cartooned, barely caricatured airbrush art, and the only reason to do them that way is that it'd be tough to get all the actors in the right position (and to make the door bulge like that in "Madhouse"). Once computers and stuff make that easier...ehh. I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

Another awkward transition (sorry for huge):

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/brain-donors-movie-poster.jpg%3Fw%3D580

Did I miss a scene from this movie? Because I don't remember anything resembling this:

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/used-cars-movie-poste-style-b.jpg

I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

i'm guessing it's more that the detail in these kind of images gets lost on video/dvd covers and (nowadays) onscreen thumbnails.

Madhouse is a film I will always remember for this:

Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka"
Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
Claudia: You moron!
Bernice: I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!

In the category of homages/revivals, poster artist The Dude Designs strives "to paint, illustrate and hand assemble images which have personality, that invoke those memories and emotions you used to get when you held a video box in your hand or stared with amazement and curiosity at an illustrated movie poster." The blog gets into some detail on each poster, which is pretty sweet. He works in some different styles, and is mainly a horror guy, but a few are totally tapping into this vein. The one thing is that there's not much in the way of caricature - all the actors look pretty closely keyed off reference photos. This and the amount of modeling through shade (aibrush?) makes it look much more 80s than 70s... But still! Wish I'd seen his Heat poster everywhere instead of the shitty photo of the two leads on a pink background.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HBxx__w7rY0/UciL2XPX1PI/AAAAAAAA5gE/9F0_mgHkWMc/s1600/pdc_theheatposter4.jpg

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQxMTIyMzYzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM0MTI2OQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

http://nebula.wsimg.com/4151447b805ae0b771db4d32e3870d0a?AccessKeyId=71DC53FC6978419123ED&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

thread delivers!

I hope dude starts getting lots of work soon

Seems like he's doing okay - Heat was a pretty big movie even if they hardly used the poster - but agreed!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1621694_10152250443126563_939017797_n.jpg

Has anyone started making fanart of these for new movies?

I mean, I'm not crazy about stuff like this example, but I would be curious to see what someone else could come up with:

http://thisisnotadvertising.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-matrix.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/139/MPW-69614

borderline with "just any old illustration" but I think the explosions crammed into the still life at bottom left put it over. Wondering based on this one: was there a wave of The Sting ripoffs equivalent to the Smokey & the Bandit influence discussed above?

http://images.moviepostershop.com/every-which-way-but-loose-movie-poster-1978-1020199611.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/akJlaQD.png

old to semi-old caricatures you would travel back in time to, etc

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/85/MPW-42736

Not quite selling the madcap sexy humor, probably because it looks like Kate Jackson is about to stab Elliott Gould in the ear.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/bugsy-malone-movie-poster-1976-1020197146.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/49/MPW-24668

Bugsy Malone is kinda too nice / ordered for the thread, but I'm glad it's here

Yeah, it's definitely not 'the style,' but god is it just *packed*.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Inside_Moves_FilmPoster.jpeg

Could be busier or more caricatured, but bonus points for being totally fucking unappealing and giving you no idea what the movie will be about (note, i also thought it said "Inside Mars" at first, which REALLY through me off).

Marvel commissioned one in this style for the new Captain America movie:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TG40zdMjwqs/Uy2uRIqW6mI/AAAAAAAAUSU/ueJGshkGR6g/s1600/Cap-2-poster-col-paolo-rivera.jpg

Needs more caricature, or at least, would be awesome if they'd commissioned a poster depicting their serious superhero drama as a vaguely racy patriotic chase across the USA. Also, oh shit, the Falcon is in this movie?!

Was thinking last night though about the observation that these type of posters size down badly for VHS boxes and soundtrack albums on cassette, which I do think is pretty convincing - but man, with today's super giant size ad campaigns (images the size of a whole building! Two billboards that have to be seen from the right POV to correctly display as one image!) you could really see a revival of these. Fuck, even moderately large posters (like some of the really wide subway platform ones) could do wonders with this style. Right now they look like banner ads printed really big - there's nothing to hold your attention beyond the commanding stare of the star as cult object.

Redford's likelness on that cap'n america poster is giving me heavy Three Days of the Condor vibes

That Winter Soldier poster is great - really fits the deliberately 70s-paranoia feeling of the movie (and makes the Three Days of the Condor vibe even more appropriate). Also lol at BATROC ZE LEEPAIR making it to a movie poster in 2014. You finally made it, you crazy French acrobat-assassin!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m138/dcfloyd/amarcordposter.jpg

Did the Soviets ever go for this? I've seen all those great, trippy art posters for familiar Western blockbusters, would have been awesome if they were also turning our dramas into capers and our bloodbaths into mud wrestling goofs.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/record-city-movie-poster-1977-1020233704.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-assets/assets/Title/1264715234/125/PosterFull-BANKSHOT-poster-001.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iHQWH-8xE60/Tpm9Fi1F4mI/AAAAAAAAAdg/G7v-yhv80nY/s1600/Brinks+Job.jpg

I feel like a lot of non-Casavettes Peter Falk films could fit here, but surfing Wiki, I only really found this other one. It's not even actually *that* busy, but it still feels cluttered by contemporary standards (plus, caricatures).

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/murder_by_death.jpg

I can imagine a A Woman Under The Influence poster with characters running amok around the center of a caricatured Gena Rowlands.

Broken link, cryptosicko.

Loving Elvis Telecom's. Awww, Peter Falk!

Speaking of Falk...

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/42/MPW-21116

oops!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Murder_by_death_movie_poster.jpg

http://coronacomingattractions.com/sites/default/files/news/devil_and_max_devlin_poster.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum-movie-poster-1966-1020200587.jpg

someone needs to get to work on the stuff itt and do it for:

Movie Posters With All References to Movies Removed

Would decorate my whole house with that.

http://i.imgur.com/Y51yjhy.jpg

want to watch that immediately

Had to look up whether that was a parody! Sadly, the poster for the sequel gives up.

hollyweed

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAvlJfwiG7k/UBw9eFWhViI/AAAAAAAAKwE/EPJrqT9V6kQ/s1600/HAMBURGER+FRONT+copy.jpg

no idea if this is a repeat, searching pics is tedious

dont think its been posted yet, thank you

there doesn't appear to be a screenwriting credit for Hollywood Hot Tubs, imagine that.

think Lesley Halliwell once described the Carry On movie scripts as "'remembered' rather than written"

A teenager gets in trouble for vandalizing the Hollywood sign and goes to work for his uncle's hot tub repair business rather than go to prison. The nephew falls in love with a secretary at his uncle's company, but risks losing her when caught in compromising situations while performing his duties as a hot tub repairman.

I mean, a film like this practically writes itself!

which brings us nicely to

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-c/confessions_of_a_driving_instructor_poster_02.jpg

i've never seen photo-strip style for an all-unrecognizable cast

all Brits, sitcom stars mostly. George Layton appears to have butched up for this one.

the Confessions movies were basically a more softcore porn version of the Carry On style

watched a few clips of hollywood hot tubs and i can verify that that movie did not have a writer

but there are boobs right

the cartoon faces on that Confessions poster will haunt me.

http://www.vinmag.com/online/media/gbu0/prodlg/TS199-confessions-of-driving-instructor-t-shirt.jpg

100% cotton, yours for only £12.99 inc vat

this is slightly off-theme but i lol'd

http://i.imgur.com/7llLjug.jpg

http://www.moviepostercompany.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/5793.jpg

http://www.onthebusesfanclub.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/MUTINYPOSTER2.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-HTdUbBkTiDU/U95kNV2SzyI/AAAAAAAAHFg/bXzznIIp7Mk/s1600/Five+on+Black+Hand+Side.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8wir8A85Cw4/U7XLirVnftI/AAAAAAAAG9M/KCGwIb6zDs0/s1600/Scavenger+Hunt.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pClxLQ-2Q9s/U7XJVVAqTSI/AAAAAAAAG8s/vcMDvZnMPsQ/s1600/Villain,+The+(1979).jpg

all from the first few pages of really promising blog http://every70smovie.blogspot.com

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rTcDbauEGdg/U0AjEFIBSoI/AAAAAAAAGlM/k7QCM1WGRpE/s1600/Ritz,+The.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-UlJ2Do4Im3o/UzGvgNHAXBI/AAAAAAAAGh8/j1fBTR8kT10/s1600/Amarcord.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T0Hob1gwWko/Ux3rIHom1BI/AAAAAAAAGd0/Qi26SWGEoN0/s1600/Attack+Killer+Tomatoes.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a_AL6Z6GfCY/Uu_XHit4EhI/AAAAAAAAGU8/v0vk7BbmTFQ/s1600/Malibu+High.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ViGlca4LlOk/Us7n9rqcLmI/AAAAAAAAGOM/c9yxFQvV7Rk/s1600/Pink+Angels,+The.jpg

not sure i really like Mr Hanson's writing but the scope of what he's doing is a lot of fun

http://www.impawards.com/1969/posters/if_its_tuesday_this_must_be_belgium_xlg.jpg

Detail from If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium:

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/8WSkvCfZS4KhVracbpd4naQ8dsN.jpg

That Fellini one is cool

Malibu High - photographed girl but drawn observers, what's going on there

https://ionetheurbandaily.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/schooldance_1sheet_r6.jpg?w=660

^^^ throwback from 2014

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zwYvTNoCWN4/UdVjFZbx2DI/AAAAAAAAJIw/qkJqoRF7_JY/s741/Hot+Potato+-+Movie+Poster.jpg

^^^ google threw this up while i was searching for a less huge version of the above. Hmmm.

Guy on flagpole looks like Sherman Hemsley.

http://i.imgur.com/5V30E7b.jpg

Lot more where that came from: http://hkmovieposter.blogspot.com

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/89/MPW-44855

http://thomaspynchon.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IV-Last-Supper-posters.jpg

Also:
https://twitter.com/meganeellison/status/539876917898670081

http://imageserver.moviepilot.com/luker-butland-poster-posse-gives-us-phase-two-of-guardians-of-the-galaxy-poster-blitz.jpeg?width=570&height=1232

more Inherent Vice stuff

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/photo_albums/inherent-vice/large/inherentreese.jpg?1384968217

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2NzIxOTc1OV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNTkyNjg5._V1__SX1371_SY682_.jpg

http://content9.flixster.com/movie/10/91/57/10915775_det.jpg

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODg4ODYxMTk2NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNzYxMTI5OQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg https://s3.amazonaws.com/ksr/assets/003/111/154/fa894b11fe56de77bd1f2d5d2a9569bc_large.jpg?1420570647
http://m.cdn.blog.hu/pr/premierfilmek/image/todolist2.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/S/SALTANDPEPPER.jpg

http://www.retromovieposters.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/One-More-Time.jpg

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img17/6669/jjrg.jpg

http://www.moviepostercompany.co.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/P30901191.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/cheap-detective-movie-poster-1978-1020314380.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2481

wish i could find a better qual version:

http://i.imgur.com/FmXJD5H.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/avanti-movie-poster-1972-1020240039.jpg

I'm sure What's Up, Doc? has already appeared on this thread, but the below has some extra busy/claustrophobicness not included on the english language version

http://i2.listal.com/image/137827/936full-what

this is obvs a different style altogether, but I like this one too

http://img1.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/i/l/ilwqstua2s86liqs.jpg?djet1p5k

that one's a broken link, great Belgian "What's Up Doc?" though

What's Up, Doc? is one of the most underrated films of all time

http://kinomax.by/uploads/posts/1972/18894/18894.jpg

Where Does It Hurt? en español

again, not particularly busy, but I'm in love with this poster for 1971 Hywel Bennett penis transplant comedy Percy

http://www.moviebeta.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/percy_belgian_poster-e1428515410255.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-p/pink_angels_poster_01.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/posters-s/swap_meet_poster_01.jpg

http://41.media.tumblr.com/75aea67014739491f500ea1a981b73b3/tumblr_nplof1nAM71qabyxlo1_1280.jpg

nice.

http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/le2gMaULcNXh4sMbm3EWNpG7ntx.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/O/OUTRAGEOUSFORTUNEWS.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/U/URGH.jpg

I remember what a big deal it was to keep switching Long & Midler's names around to share equal credit.

Hadn't seen that second Outrageous Fortune cover before. Our VHS copy is the first one and it looks like hell. Perspective/anatomy is funky in this Rob Liefeld way I think, and just the general style of the drawing is another one of those ones that shows the sad step down in poster cartoonery since the heyday. BTW is that movie any good? I've waffled on popping it in many a time.

I saw it in the theater with my dad and step-mother. Somewhere in the middle, Bette Midler starts yelling about a corpse that he has a NEEDLE DICK! A NEEDLE DICK! My dad's very animated embarrassment causing other patrons to shush him forced me to go out to the lobby and notice that there were two versions of the poster for the same movie.

http://i.imgur.com/dD0p6za.jpg http://i.imgur.com/RJnuUYX.jpg

awesome.

http://www.onthebusesfanclub.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/MUTINYPOSTER2.jpg https://burningambulance.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/onthecorner.jpg
anyone else seeing a similarity here?

arf

not a movie poster but this thread gave me massive flashbacks to this record my dad had when I was a kid, it terrified and fascinated me and the image of Rod Stewart probably contributed to my life long hatred of him:

http://eil.com/images/main/Various-70s-80s--Beyond-The-Music-For-Uni-556345.jpg

Couldn't have been easy working out how to get all of EWF back there.

yikes

I must be remembering the artist from poring through a cache of '60s playboys when I was in my early teens

http://drewfriedman.blogspot.com/2012/01/bill-utterback-in-vip-magazine.html

not a movie poster but amazing exemplar of the form

coachella should go with that look for next year's poster

great link, thanks LBJ.

Someone really missed the boat by not using that Outrageous Fortune image for a Thelma and Louise poster.

http://www.leninimports.com/tanya_roberts_racquet_movie_poster_2a.jpg

http://www.ivid.it/fotogallery/imagesearch/images/boatnik_i_marinai_della_domenica_robert_morse_norman_tokar_001_jpg_cvuy.jpg

To link in with current ILM thread:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0008G2748.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Robert Morsey and Don Ameke

https://scenesfromthemorgue.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/100_7089.jpg

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/wTZ_dPKCFCM/maxresdefault.jpg

http://fffmp.fffmoviepostersc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2294.jpg

http://www.funkyparts.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/4302821368_489853fd09_b.jpg

http://www.blogcdn.com/slideshows/images/slides/320/337/3/S3203373/slug/l/crack-in-the-world-ver2-poster-1.jpg

I'm intrigued by any film "featuring Earth Wind and Fire as The Group."

The Busy Body is top-notch. Taking so much attention for granted! I wish subway ads gave you as much to look at.

https://hiddenfilms.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/133737-1020-a.jpg

http://pics.filmaffinity.com/Botas_duras_medias_de_seda-673344102-large.jpg

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/square/54046.jpg

this is kind of different, but it is busy (this is by Alan Aldridge, surely? or otherwise someone doing a good impression of his style)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg

http://i.jeded.com/i/hot-dog-the-movie.30957.jpg

gr8080 posted hot dog in like the first few posts, smh @ me

WONDER WHERE I GOT THE IDEA?!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oJsnE7OmsSA/T_lMSsWQ9QI/AAAAAAAEqgw/XkyLrCdF_mk/s1600/andy_warhols_dracula_ver2_xlg.jpg

wowwww

attn: WGW (nsfw): http://threeframes.tumblr.com/search/hot+dog

ironically "andy" probably didn't have much to do with that movie

re: outrageous fortune - the laser disc had two covers also
http://i.imgur.com/rZ4Wk4L.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/8FwyOTw.jpg?2

Imagine if there was Twitter back then: #TeamBette vs. #TeamShelley

was Shelley like the 80s version of David Caruso? Quitting a successful tv show for imagined movie stardom and then finding only obscurity?

anyway, i love bette but Cheers is the best show ever so I would totes have been team shelley

her film career was basically successful tho, right? not superstardom but several movies that did pretty well, on into the 90s with the brady bunch. funnily enough I think night shift was just as 'cheers' was starting up and winkler was still doing 'happy days.'

I remember Long's post-Cheers film career being a source of much comic derision at the time, with jokes about it on The Golden Girls and even Cheers itself, though now I wonder if this was just NBC holding a grudge. Hello Again was a fairly high profile flop, which certainly gave her critics plenty of ammo, but The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune did fairly well, according to the box office figures on Wiki ($54 million and $65 million, respectively). I was a bit surprised just now to read that Troop Beverly Hills tanked at the box office so bad ($8 million, with an $18 mil budget), as a lot of people of my generation seem to remember it somewhat fondly (I'm guessing most of its fans saw it on cable). And yeah, after the 80s she would go on to do those Brady Bunch movies and work with Altman, so I would say she's been considerably more successful than Caruso, whose only film role I can recall right now was in that remake of Kiss of Death.

I'm surprised about Troop Beverly Hills too! Yes, endless cable plays and a good "rental movie" I think.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/images.hitfix.com/assets/8961/WHAS_Keyart_Vertical_US.jpg

This image kind of reminded me of that poster style. Would love to see it illustrated that way:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11057725_10155891845860072_1080469104974416370_o.jpg

haha totally

somehow missed that Wet Hot American Summer one just above. that's pretty good! maybe just a LITTLE too much of the photo-reference still present - much more photoshop filter than pen and ink caricature. but the composition is spot on.

Dunno if this has been posted, but we just got a copy of this on VHS and I have high hopes:

http://cdn26.us2.fansshare.com/photo/amazonwomenonthemoon/full-amazon-women-on-the-moon-poster-1624106162.jpg

(Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987)

chris matthews screengrab is killin me

maybe this is my re-entry in to pen+paper drawing 20 years after my exit

The Invisible Man spoof in Amazon Women on the Moon is hilarious.

I saw Amazon Women a long time ago, remember it being pretty funny

I haven't seen it in like 20 years but i LOVED it as a kid

Griffin Dunne as an obstetrician trying to pass off a Mr Potatohead as a newborn baby to Michelle Pfeiffer and the hippy from 30Something, what's not to love

http://www.filmonpaper.com/site/media/2011/05/StrangeBrew_onesheet-1-500x753.jpg

http://www.timelessmoviemagic.co.uk/ekmps/shops/fozzy/images/going-berserk-insert-movie-poster-john-candy-eugene-levy-great-art-83-844-p.jpg

1941 was absolutely the first thing that came to mind; surprised it didn't show up earlier
http://www.tomheroes.com/images8/COMICAD_1941.jpg

https://knoji.com/images/user/billyjackinternational.jpg

Wow, "Strange Brew" and "Going Berserk" are both great ones. Just when I think the thread might be drying up.

The Strange Brew one just reminded me of how I saw that film a few years before I ever saw Star Wars, and how I didn't get until just now that the hockey teams in SB were a SW spoof!

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2480

Fire Sale (1977)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/75/MPW-37613

Improper Channels (1981)

(the later is kinda shitty and not that on-topic but i feel connoisseurs of this thread would find it of interest)

what a weird movie title/tagline

i'm hoping the whole movie is alan arkin sitting at a terminal typing "TAKE SCIMITAR" "I DON'T SEE A 'SCIMITAR' HERE" "TAKE BLADE" "I DON'T SEE A 'BLADE' HERE"

WTF? Plot summary for Improper Channels:

A father brings a young child to an emergency room to get treatment for a minor injury occurring in an innocent accident, but he gets accused of child abuse. Child welfare agencies commit grossly unfair over-reactions to remove the child forcibly from the Father (Arkin), who must brave the arcane system to reclaim his daughter.

...with hilarious consequences!

hahaha what the fuck? really did not get that from the poster.

whole thread btw really gives the lie to the "golden age" of 70s film, obviously tons of amazing classics getting made with big studio backing but my sense is that 95% of the time if you went to the movies you probably were going to encounter this kind of thing, correct me if i'm wrong

couple more, this time courtesy of "every 70s movie":

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Poster_of_the_movie_%22The_Fish_That_Saved_Pittsburgh%22.jpg

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/racquet-movie-poster-1979-1020248649.jpg

Racquet (1979)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/billion-dollar-hobo-movie-poster-1980-1020203421.jpg

with most of these the poster almost makes me want to see the film, even though I know it'd probably be awful. but no poster could convince me that I want to watch a film called 'The Billion Dollar Hobo' that stars Tim Conway.

what part of 100 laffs a minute doesn't sound appealing to you?

I am kind of interested in learning more about Bo, the world's cleverest canine. all my google searches are just coming up with stuff about Obama's dog, though. Thanks Obama!

Hah these all look like random saturday matinee movies they would show on over the air TV in the 80s.

http://www.worthpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ShaggyDA.jpg

billion dollar hobo is cracking me up. conway's expresion! not exactly conveying the promised laff-a-minute rate, is he?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/39/First_Family_%28Film%29.jpg

First Family

(another one for the "you're not really convincing me this is a comedy here, guys" file)

https://youtu.be/2rLim9U2q2E

going by the trailer, that is a pretty impressive cast they've assembled for completely terrible looking film. I do like the Kraftwerk-esque Bob Newhart dummy, though.

"senator from rhode island" jokes have always been with us, huh.

Where did most of the movies featured in this thread go? I pretty much lived in video stores when I was a kid during the 80s and while these all seem like the kind of things that would have littered the video store shelves of that era, I recognize very few of these.

i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?

First Family was the movie which was supposed to launch Gilda Radner as a movie star, so double sad.

The impressive cast is almost certainly due to the fact that this was Buck Henry's follow-up to "Heaven Can Wait," which was Oscar-nominated and a big hit.

i'm guessing some of them were just never even sent to vhs let alone dvd?

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, September 28, 2015 7:41 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is likely otm, I think a lot less made it to VHS than people assume, and even less of that made it to DVD.

First Family was my first "worst movie I've ever seen." Age 10.

there isn't a remotely likable moment even in the trailer, which says a lot

a *lot* of this stuff made it to VHS, but early in the format's life, I think, and there just wasn't much urgency to keeping them in print when there were *new* disposable ensemble comedies with a better claim on limited shelf space. also suspect that if you trawled the tv guide archive, you'd find at LEAST one of these films playing, somewhere, every single week of the 1980s.

but yeah theyre not super common. my partner collects tapes and we're always on the lookout for these but mostly it's the same crap from the format's peak years in the late 90s. best chance sadly is really long-established video stores that never updated their stock doing going out of business sales. ive posted abt this before but I once got really wistful at one of these finding an ollld, pre-clamshell disney tape, think it was a herbie movie. yellowed cream background, always-yellow 70s font, still frame of the movie. what my childhood looked like.

Speaking of VHS cases that evoke intense childhood memories, I searched "First Family VHS" to see if it did get put out in that format. And of course it did, in the type of generic case that is the polar opposite of the caricature style, the kind of case that you could still occasionally find at video places in the early 90s.

god i'd forgotten those cases where they just throw a still from the movie on the generic cover and call it a day

what's new pussycat:

http://img4.hostingpics.net/pics/9657181965WhatsnewpussycatQuetalpussycatingbq.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/designers/jack_davis.html

i'm fond of the generic warner home video cases (especially the color-coding to help you sort your collection by COMEDY, DRAMA etc), but they're nothing on the generic MGM/UA boxes: oversized, super blah gray cardboard, but with each film getting its own set of distinctive colored stripes, the poster on the front cover (usually), and (in a crucial distinction from Fox's boxes) actually using the letterforms of the poster on the spine. flip it open and you get the main cast and crew credits, and the tape set in a separate, plastic housing which often gets all mangled up and detached from the cardboard. e.g. for this thread: http://vhscollector.com/movie/pandemonium

wow, i really wanted to see first family until i saw the trailer.

if you really want to be turned off from it read the wikipedia description of its plot

the (fictional) African nation of Upper Gorm

man i know this is nostalgia at it's most ridiculous but those dull vhs cases bring a smile. casino knows this but athens video stores were incredibly well stocked but even w/ them i don't think i ever saw a lot of these ever (they leaned toward foreign, old, and cult so i'm not sure they would have ever been interested in the first family anyway. plenty of other richard benjamin vehicles though.) it occurs to me now that literally every physical store i've ever rented a movie from doesn't exist anymore. i'm not sure there's any other kind of business i frequented that much i can say that about, like i'm pretty sure there are newsstands in italy i bought the international herald tribune at that still exist.

that Fish That Saved.. tagline reads like absolute gibberish!

i miss the five-for-five deal at vision video, but not as much as the sound of the guy answering the phone at our local spot growing up: "Multi-TV Video! Nintendo!"

the disney tapes i was talking about btw, this kind: http://www.retro-daze.org/ActionAndChildren/Children/B/BEDKNOBS-AND-BROOMSTICKS.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/2/A70-1114

thread won't load easily so i dunno if anyone's mentioned the Carry Ons

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Carry_On_Abroad_%28movie_poster%29.jpg

http://www.tele-movie-shop.de/images/product_images/original_images/27516.jpg

Geld oder Leber! (1986)

this is slightly different style but I like it, particularly 'und FALCO'

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Nv33zs6mL.jpg

"It's a Falcon Funny Movie," wow.

The dog reaction in that last one is such a stock cartoon trope, I love it. That and the pen-and-Prismacolor aesthetic make it feel like something from Dynamite magazine.

Find me a single funny movie that uses the word "laugh" or "funny" in the movie poster.

http://pics.filmaffinity.com/A_Funny_Thing_Happened_on_the_Way_to_the_Forum-837908798-large.jpg

other than in the title, obvs

haha i almost posted that, nice

http://pixelatedpop.com/sites/default/files/u3/Ernest-Goes-to-Camp.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/75/MPW-37596

I still think it looks like she's about to stab Elliott GOuld in the ear.

Poor George Washington doesn't even get star billing

I still think it looks like she's about to stab Elliott GOuld in the ear.

wait you mean that isn't what's happening?

this thread is great at helping me realize just how many terrible-looking movies Elliott Gould, Alan Arkin, and George Segal made in the 70s.

My guess from the poster was that she would be an aspiring pop star, but this HBO lead-in from 1982 insists she's a "TV news lady." So I guess she's...interviewing him?

Yeah, it's only in recent years that I've pieced together that Gould/Segal were big, big names in the 70s, Gould especially. I'm 33 and they were basically non-entities in the 80s. Probably didn't help that the majority of their output was aimed at adults with nothing that might really seduce you in the video store or reruns, like an action or fantasy joint or something. It'd be like someone born in 2000 not knowing who, like, Harrison Ford was or something. Not the exact right comparison but, y'know?

I believe Segal also had a hard career crash after asking too much money for things or something, but others would know better.

(ford obviously in tons of teen-friendly fare that has remained very popular - just meaning super big all through a decade and then basically irrelevant immediately afterwards)

yeah I don't think that applies to Harrison Ford

(currently in the process of designing an Elliott Gould t-shirt at the request of my wife btw)

Busy without being busy with people; Carbon Copy (1981)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vGC7KpaH7G0/TScHvAO-PmI/AAAAAAAAAsA/E777ADf6_ug/s1600/carbon-copy-movie-poster-1020378095.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/sKbo9kU.jpg

Hoo boy, and now I catch that they're eating fried chicken in the first one.

Wait a minute. Is the English title "Carbon Copy" and the Italian title is something about chicken?

"The Chicken You Eat WIth Your Hands" ...

Omg i seriously thought abt posting that italian carbon copy poster TONIGHT.

I'm not sure who that is on the Italian poster but it's not Denzel Washington.

'Any resemblance between Father and Son is purely hysterical' seems a good example of the overly-optimistic taglines a lot of these posters feature

p sure that's roast chicken, you don't usually fry a whole chicken afaik

Stop Exchange (1970)

https://samusicheritage.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/stop-exchange_image-6.jpg

that one looks made up or british or both

South African with some Britishers guest starring as far as I can tell

http://i1.wp.com/laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Drunk_Stoned_Brilliant_Dead_Poster.jpg

i really want to see that

have you read the book?

The big coffee-table-sized book? Yep, it's great.

trailer for this looks great too

great poster.

Recent ones from Every70sMovie:

http://cdn1.buuteeq.com/upload/9567/hooch.jpg

Hooch (1977)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/116/MPW-58066

Swap Meet (1979)

Cheryl Rixon as "Annie" has me thinking that Swap Meet contains some Crying Game-style twist.

search Debi Richter brought up this image, which I'm pretty sure is from some softcore booby movie I saw on premium cable in my adolescence. Anyone know what the movie is?

http://img6.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/d/u/duerj2gn9iue2jnu.jpg?kj8as6ye

starring gil gerard

http://www.thebestlittlefilmhouse.com/ekmps/shops/tblfh01/images/istopher-lee-anthony-quinn-james-mason--4117-p.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510-53rnjnL._SY445_.jpg

http://img.soundtrackcollector.com/movie/large/Passage_(1979).jpg

https://amboceptor.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/she-poster-1979.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38856

http://images.moviepostershop.com/moving-violation-movie-poster-1976-1020367133.jpg

http://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/store-11/DOINTIMEHR.jpg

wow does that ever look bad

Not quite up to the busy/claustrophobic standards of this thread, but too great not to be posted here

http://boutique.cinema-passion.com/1658-thickbox_default/vasectomy-a-delicat-matter-22-x-30-canadian-poster.jpg

mort drucker, sam viviano, jack davis are the kings of this shit

this is one of those threads that just keeps on giving, no matter how much you convince yourself there just aren't any godawful forgotten 70s/80s comedies left.

last one is all-time ghastly.

if anything this thread is a reminder of just how *many* fucking movies get made, and how many fall into complete and total oblivion, never to be seen again

Seeing these things makes me long for an Easy Riders-esque book about them. I mean, we've heard enough about The Godfather and Star Wars already--How the fuck did Vasectomy:A Delicate Matter happen?

no one knows. everyone involved died mysteriously

...and no heirs, because vasectomies.

Moving Violation & Doin Time = Boring movie titles like I've got my own movie to do done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

yeah you think you've got some grasp on how much crap hollywood made (it doesn't produce nearly as many movies anymore is my guess, at least not to theaters), and then you find out someone made a comedy about paul sorvino getting a vasectomy

special guest appearance by lorne green btw

^^His final film, according to imdb!

Whoa, that movie was from 1986?

peak-period Sorvino

it's helpful to be reminded just how many awful movies were made in pretty much any given decade.

https://scopophiliamovieblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/bad-manners-2.png

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F06eMU90L.jpg

http://www.westernposterpage.com/waterhole3.jpg

Great batch.

just how many Animal House rip offs were there in the late 70s/early 80s??

I imagine about the same number of pulp fiction ripoffs in the mid to late 90s

Don't forget American Graffiti ripoffs!

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

clicked thread. did not expect there would be so, so many of these

Flodder (1986)

http://www.flodder.tv/Resources/flodder1affiche0a.jpeg

Flodder in Amerika! (1992)

http://www.flodder.tv/Resources/americaaffichegoa.jpeg

Flodder 3 (1995)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d1/Flodder3.jpg

according to wiki the film follows an anti-social, dysfunctional family who move to an affluent, upper-class neighbourhood as part of a social experiment which results in mayhem as the Flodder family refuses to adapt

also this slightly odd footnote about the Québec dub:

The film was translated into joual (a Québec working class dialect) and distributed in Québec under the title Les Lavigueur déménagent (The Lavigueurs are moving). The name Lavigueur was taken from a Montreal working-class family who had made headlines in 1986 after winning what was then the largest jackpot ever awarded in a Canadian lottery, at 6/49. The family ― except for Yve Lavigueur ― attempted to sue the filmmakers, but they could do nothing as nobody owns a particular last name, especially a popular one. Yve, on the other hand, went to the premiere, where he quickly realized that the film had nothing to do with his family, which infuriated him. Drugs clouded his judgment. He thought that a film about his family would be a good thing, when, in fact, it was done to mock them.[2]

wowwwww, Flodder series is a great find. also great "unusual details in wikipedia articles" material.

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

Photoshop, but with the heart in the right place...

https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xlp1/v/t1.0-9/988772_1013890038669401_4749091585694674974_n.jpg?oh=fbb5c637b478ac9970abd61380f4f78e&oe=56FD3D27

http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

oops

http://ca.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/6/A70-3400

oops again...this one is already upthread.

foreign posters for Britannia Hospital (lol at selling it as "the M*A*S*H of socialized medicine")

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/86/MPW-43472

https://fbwebsitedefaultstorage.blob.core.windows.net/film/1696/uk/britannia-hospital-poster.jpg

Franzetta:

http://www.heavymetal.com/news/13-screwball-comedy-movie-posters-by-frank-frazetta/

wowwwww.

"mixed company" setting off alarm bells over here. "mad monster party" apparently trying to pre-empt MAD magazine's spoof by using their exact typeface/bolding.

Mad Monster Party? wasn't official MAD but had ties - Harvey Kurtzman co-wrote the script and Jack Davis did character design.

literally stepping on the naked black kid xp

High Stakes (1986), starring Dave Foley when he like 21 or something

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51mk%2Br7w06L.jpg

"...a graphic adventure on PC and Macintosh!"

http://www.filmposters.com/images/posters/11247.jpg

The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming! (1966)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v227/Reb_Al/Davy%20Crockett%20%20Indian%20Fighter%20Comic/Viva---2.jpg

Viva Max!(1969

great find. and very design-y for Davis! wonder if it was from some art director's concept.

would buy this thread as a coffee table book btw

mort drucker, sam viviano, jack davis are the kings of this shit

― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Thursday, November 19, 2015 4:54 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is super OTM but it immediately made me think of Dick DeBartolo, who you'd think would've been similarly in demand but I can't find information about him ever having done a movie poster. If anyone discovers otherwise, though, it's surefire fodder for this thread.

http://www.rockpopmem.com/images/products/square/64350.jpg

wikipedia attempts to explain:

I've Gotta Horse was Billy Fury's second hit feature film and as well as a number of human stars including Amanda Barrie, Michael Medwin and Jon Pertwee and pop bands The Gamblers and The Bachelors it featured his own race horse Anselmo as well as several of his own dogs in a musical comedy...Based on the star's famous love of animals, this musical comedy portrays Billy setting out to add a sheepdog to his vast entourage of animals and coming back with an irresistible horse named Armitage instead. To his manager's horror, Billy smuggles the horse backstage during rehearsals for his big show and the horse proceeds to create havoc. Little do either of them know that Armitage is actually a thoroughbred racehorse. Then Billy's horse contracts pneumonia and Billy must choose between love of his horse and the big show.

the films titular song is pretty catchy: https://youtu.be/urYHt3J0WkQ

huh, yeah, that's pretty good. guy's really glad to have a horse. movie writes itself really.

conspicuous lack of horses on the poster.

Secondarily, this thread is a great reminder of just how many terrible, forgettable and forgotten films Hollywood has put out during every era.

Seriously. I was browsing the Wikipedia page for 1960-something in film and I was like, wtf even are most of these highest grossing movies from 1960-something? Try explaining to your grandchildren what a Fast 5 was.

Wasn't Dick DeBartolo more of a writer than an artist?

yes, Old Lunch is thinking of Angelo Torres maybe?

Torres is no Drucker or Davis

American Graffiti got posted very early in this thread, but this Spanish-language version is a different, equally claustrophobic design:

http://i2.listal.com/image/137254/936full-american-graffiti-poster.jpg

^^With a major spoiler in the lower righthand corner (and also hey hey I went and saw this film projected in 35mm for the first time tonight!)

http://images.moviepostershop.com/hog-wild-movie-poster-1980-1020240910.jpg

http://www.outoftheaters.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/movie-poster_The-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three.jpg

wow, nice

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

http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg

time has not been kind to that poster

http://www.80smovieposters.com/4061/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/finders-keepers-movie-poster-1984-1020340348.jpg

Oh, that's first-rate! Right down to proudly announcing its very solidly B- and C-list leads at the top. Looks like real Cannonball Run stuff - I have to assume that the cutaways to the two roller-derby girls are particularly tedious.

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/bingo_long_traveling_all_stars_and_motor_kings_xlg.jpg

Woah - just watched that last week.

Is it good? Always wanted to see it.

I'm on zing, so can't see properly, but if Grisso's last one isn't Davis, it's an excellent imitation

Definitely Davis

Bingo Long - which it turns out I posted itt two years ago when I picked up the tape that I just now finally watched! - is okay-ish, maybe even good. Williams and Jones are really convincing. There's a basic difficulty of telling the story of this roadshow team, which was forced to resort to minstrel-esque performances in games against white home teams, as a comedy. It doesn't ignore the indignities suffered by the players, and pays lip service to some of them (particularly Jones as the Du Bois and Marx-quoting veteran player) taking issue with the strategy. But so much screen time is given over to the over-the-top scheming Negro League owner and other plotty bits of business that the movie can't really wrestle with the subject matter. But if you're just looking for a period sports movie with a lot of montages, and some really likable lead performances, it's all right. (I'm also a suburban white guy born in 1981, so I might relate to the film very differently than its original target audience did.) Standard 1970s warnings re: sexism apply.

ty, dc

Bingo Long makes a surprising appearance in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: Apparently Spielberg was attached to direct, mainly as a power play to get a film he really wanted to do (Close Encounters, iirc) made.

Oof, I'm glad that didn't happen. I like Spielberg, but 1941 doesn't inspire confidence that he would have handled comedy, or racially charged material, with any deftness early in his career.

A NSFW addition for Googlers: the German poster for Up The Creek - Das Turbogeile Gummiboot - is redrawn for the style of this thread.

this one?

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r292/adamrsbeales/gummiboot_1.jpg

oh nice work - i couldn't find a large-size version sans nipples.

RIP Jack Davis :(

lol the nipple version of Das Turbogeile Gummiboot is really worth seeing

and not for the reason you might think!

RIP

http://bakertoons.tumblr.com/post/94824492069/in-a-way-this-is-a-follow-up-to-mads

Three Cornered Pitney

I remember seeing that in MAD as a kid!

That image with the cat in particular was burned in memory.

It looks so annoyed!

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/10041/p10041_p_v8_aa.jpg

Happy Hour (1987)

oops

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/10041/p10041_p_v8_aa.jpg

One of the better of the latter-day airbrush school, I think.

struzan rulez so hard

http://i.imgur.com/7g5fGe1.jpg

truly an all-star cast

Directed By: BERT CONVY

Lloyd Bridges must've built the last 20 years of his career on playing the befuddled officer/straight man in all these movies

Yeah I was thinking about that, this was after Airplane! and before Hot Shots!

Look how happy Belzer is!

http://i.imgur.com/cVXCOd7.jpg

Just saw a Carson rerun on Antenna wherein Tim Conway plugs this film I (rightfully) never heard of...

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5N3RP/the-prize-fighter-from-left-tim-conway-don-knotts-1979-E5N3RP.jpg

From around the same time...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/1b/51/e5/1b51e5b175dc1269dbc7f1d8f7fcb012.jpg

This came up in the search too...

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/cb41108ca3ea4b7e9e84b79fb0080964/the-shaggy-da-us-poster-suzanne-pleshette-center-rear-tim-conway-striped-e5nn3k.jpg

...and this

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/1c/1a/9e/1c1a9e24a609244d3d1cbca985a4ac8c.jpg

No Conway No Cred...

http://img2.bdbphotos.com/images/orig/l/h/lhb1qhm7r0z50r5h.jpg?djet1p5k

Tim Conway definitely a contender for the title of actor whose caricature has graced the highest number of busy/claustrophobic movie posters from the 70s and 80s

http://www.impawards.com/designers/jack_davis.html
http://www.impawards.com/designers/drew_struzan.html
http://www.impawards.com/designers/frank_frazetta.html
http://www.impawards.com/designers/robert_mcginnis.html
http://www.impawards.com/designers/william_stout.html

I made a Letterboxd list of everything itt (minus broken images) because why not?

...to which I'm surprised this hasn't been included yet

https://torrentbeam.com/imdb/posters/390253movie.jpg

Ffolks (1980)

er, "Ffolkes" (1980)

I made a Letterboxd list of everything itt (minus broken images) because why not?

― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Sunday, August 28, 2016 12:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Incredibly helpful - I had that scouting poster last night and thought it likely had already been posted here. But I wasn't going to open up 550 poster images to make sure.

http://www.impawards.com/designers/drew_struzan.html

it's amazing seeing how struzan has worked on everything from the highest profile work (spielberg, lucas) to the lowest (weekend warriors) and the unexpected (shirley valentine, name of the rose).

xpost

Thanks. Anyone who plays around with the site for a minute has probably figured this out already, but there is an option to list the titles alphabetically, which should make finding out if a title has already been mentioned even easier.

http://www.scifi-movies.com/images/contenu/data/0004156/affiche-le-bus-en-folie-the-big-bus-1976-4.jpg

The Big Bus (1976)

Posted, but still a classic. Movie is worth watching iirc.

D'oh! Obviously I should've checked my Letterboxd list closer.

I do like that it combines two key 70s styles, though--the busy, claustrophobic etc and the squares highlighting each member of the "all star cast."

Was going to say, I loved that movie as a kid. Wouldn't mind seeing it again, tbh.

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Be1xuHEIUY/V_vL5BD2LtI/AAAAAAAALsM/j-kwwU-NCMsTImymuBJEsy28OZ2XyPRUACLcB/s1600/Skateboard.jpg

Skateboard (1978)

lol @ the title "Skateboard"

I cringe at the idea that I once had a Kevin Smith poster on my wall, but I did, in fact, have this Mallrats poster on my wall as a student in the late 90s

https://mutantreviewers.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/mallratsbox.jpg

if Drew Struzan is eligible for this thread it's going to get pretty crowded

Never looked up Struzan before - wow, what a portfolio. I think a few of his have shown up here before (e.g. Cannonball Run) but I don't think most of them really fit the thread premise so no worries there.

"Skateboard" is a great find - so clearly in the genre but an aesthetic we haven't really seen much of.

If I was Allen Garfield I'd be pretty pissy about that caricature.

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/102/MPW-51084.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/uJf9EyW.jpg?1

Interesting, I'd never heard of that movie before... Is it the first fictional story to use Stephen Knight's "the prostitutes were killed to cover up a royal scandal" theory as its basis?

and DONALD SUTHERLAND as "The Psychic" Robert Lees

Tuomas - not sure if it was the first, but it was very similar to "From Hell"

Sutherland and Bujold have awesome cameos

The Big Bus (1976)

Murphy 'Murph' Dunne's cocktail pianist in The Big Bus is legit one of the funniest things ever.

Best tagline ever.

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bwps1eNjSlA/WFQnt5kUMJI/AAAAAAAAL7w/4kMMaV9aFaIywVqQ6umhnH0wkVuSOoafQCLcB/s1600/Hot%2BTimes.jpg

Trying another link...

http://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/33185.jpg

Yikes.

First link worth it for the slightly more accurate (I suspect?) color.

Just to take a quick inventory, this thread thus far includes movies called:

Hot Dog...The Movie
Hot Potato
H.O.T.S.
Hot Stuff
Hot Times
Hollywood Hot Tubs
Wet Hot American Summer

lol

I'd forgotten about "H.O.T.S.". the trailer is really something, especially Ken Olfson as Dean Bitterman

https://youtu.be/jnmWsazwP54

the chapter titles for the dvd provide several potential titles for new movies in this vein, if any aspiring director wants to add to crytptosicko's list:

http://dvd.box.sk/newsimg/dvdmov/max1117404822-inlay-cover.jpg

x-post to the imdb trivia thread and the "actors who only appeared in one movie" thread: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1927733/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t42

The 70s/80s VHS sex comedies aren't really being preserved anywhere, are they?

Like I remember as a kid going through the VHS seeing stuff like this

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/Can_I_Do_It_%27Till_I_Need_Glasses1977.jpg

And now that I'm old enough to actually watch this trash there's no place to actually see it?

H.O.T.S. at least is currently being preserved in full on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqdVrdTLUGU

lots of helpful comments along these lines:

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These movies must have the biggest gap of all genres between the poster and the films... like, an ACTUAL overstuffed, wall-to-wall zany cartoon sex romp comedes might be something to see, but in reality these are dismally-paced, lovelessly-shot, underscripted and unfunny non-romps, ime very hard on the eyes and just uncomfortable to watch at any age.

OTM. As odd as it seems to register disappointment with something like Hot Times, the five or so mins that I sampled of it on YouTube looked painfully ugly and lazy. Like, expository dialogue looped over exterior shots of houses and aimless driving scenes shot from the backseat of a car and stuff like that.

The name of the director listed on the poster sounded familiar though. It's Jim McBride, who later went on to do the Richard Gere remake of Breathless and the well-regarded (as I recall) Dennis Quaid/Ellen Barkin thriller The Big Easy.

...and prior to Hot Times, he was responsible for the important '60s Indies David Holtzman's Diary and My Girlfriend's Wedding.

Ha, I've never watched that Gere Breathless but I grabbed the VHS tape at some point based on the wonderfully OTT-sounding back-of-the-box text, courtesy some poor sap at Video Treasures, Inc. Skipping the first bits:

Jesse is a rootless drifter whose sole hero is the comic book loner "The Silver Surfer." Monica is a brilliant student with definite plans for her future. Yet, together they are pure dynamite - in a tempestuous affair that whirls them through L.A.'s back alleys, on a desperate flight to Mexico, and finally to the tale's startling climax.

RICHARD GERE - the sexually explosive loner. VALERIE KAPRISKY - the delicate, well-bred French girl. Together, their passion will leave you BREATHLESS.

H.O.T.S. was an running joke with my friends in my late high school / early college era, it was at the video store and looked so awful that we made fun of it forever then finally rented it and made even more fun of it. One of these friends was pretty jesus-y and was vocally uncomfortable during it which made it even better.

A couple years later his fiancee came to visit his hometown and family and meet his friends for the first time and we coordinated with her beforehand so she was wearing a white t-shirt with HOTS on it in red letters when she got off the plane. She also didn't break when he freaked out and maintained that it stood for something else and it was a strictly a random coincidence.

so what does H.O.T.S. stand for

What Does H.O.T.S. Really Stand For?
Contrary to popular belief that H.O.T.S. stands for "Hold On To Sex" or "Help Out The Seals," H.O.T.S really stands for the first letter of each of the names of the movie's main characters, which are Honey, O'Hara, Terri, and Sam.

haha, perfectly encapsulates the ''more boring and unsexy than you might expect from the poster'' phenomenon.

lol

I also learned that the two "Swinging Cheerleaders" movies (the first of which was directed by Jack Hill)--both of which were initially released a few years prior to H.O.T.S.--were re-released as H.O.T.S. II & III.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-swinging-cheerleaders-movie-poster-1974-1020206557.jpg

RELATED:

http://thenewbev.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Valium-High-1976-poster-381x578.jpg

AKA H.O.T.S III

http://images.moviepostershop.com/revenge-of-the-cheerleaders-movie-poster-1977-1020193646.jpg

I guess exhibitor laws made them state this, but I find it funny how many of these things need to tell you the film is "IN COLOR".

For reason a variation on this one kept coming up in my H.O.T.S. searches:

http://www.chantrellposter.com/images/products/large/8a326fce-f7b3-4758-b455-a554606a3259.jpg

^^^ somehow looks shittier than any of the ostensible H.O.T.S. films. man it'd be great if that series had kept rebranding random garbage campus movies though.

http://i.imgur.com/9F1yGEB.jpg?1

http://iv1.lisimg.com/image/9861884/737full-les-surdou%C3%A9s-de-la-premi%C3%A8re-compagnie-poster.jpg

still Lou Reed's best acting performance, for my money

those are great finds!

still Lou Reed's best acting performance, for my money

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I thought that the guy in Øystein's second poster looked like Lou Reed so I made a bad joke :(

this is him irl: http://s1.dmcdn.net/oyDr.jpg