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

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like these:

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

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 16:48 (twelve years ago)

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

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:02 (twelve years ago)

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

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:05 (twelve years ago)

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

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:07 (twelve years ago)

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

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:09 (twelve years ago)

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

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (twelve years ago)

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

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (twelve years ago)

Double x-post, yikes!

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:11 (twelve years ago)

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

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:15 (twelve years ago)

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

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:16 (twelve years ago)

machete kills has a poster like this.

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:17 (twelve years ago)

(in this tradition, that is)

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

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?

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (twelve years ago)

xp no caricatures though nm

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

detroit rock city?

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

!!! yes

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

and Mallrats!

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (twelve years ago)

FYI this movie owns:

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

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

christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (twelve years ago)

woah japanese take on this style:

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:27 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:29 (twelve years ago)

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

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:35 (twelve years ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:37 (twelve years ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:40 (twelve years ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:41 (twelve years ago)

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

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:42 (twelve years ago)

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

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:46 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:50 (twelve years ago)

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:55 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:57 (twelve years ago)

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

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:59 (twelve years ago)

http://adammcdaniel.com/RichardAmsel2.htm

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

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:01 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:01 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (twelve years ago)

Came up on my Nashville image search:

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:12 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:13 (twelve years ago)

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

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:14 (twelve years ago)

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

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (twelve years ago)

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

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:16 (twelve years ago)

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"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)

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

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (twelve years ago)

Charltonem Hestonem

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (twelve years ago)

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

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:19 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:21 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:22 (twelve years ago)

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

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:25 (twelve years ago)

Bonus vhs cover

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZmU5M2ZjNjgtNDU5My00NDE2LWI3N2QtM2Q0NThmZjMzN2IyXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 20 August 2025 05:36 (eight months ago)

Probably safe to say that any movie Rich Little was in probably had one of these posters.

cryptosicko, Wednesday, 20 August 2025 12:00 (eight months ago)

See also: DeLuise, Dom

je ne sequoia (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 20 August 2025 12:55 (eight months ago)

Rich Little as Brennan

I've occasionally wondered what is the origin if this convention, where a non-lead actor is called out at the end of the credits with their character name. It's something that is really common in sitcoms -- "And Jason Alexander as George" for example.

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 20 August 2025 23:54 (eight months ago)

yeah, it's almost like you're a guest star rather than part of the ensemble

with Rich Little, that's probably the case anyway

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 20 August 2025 23:56 (eight months ago)

Exclusive Alamo Drafthouse poster for Honey Don't

https://www.instagram.com/p/DNeUoaHtEg6/

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 August 2025 03:18 (eight months ago)

The Fall Guy's poster was a kind of tip of the cap to this style:

https://www.comingsoon.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/03/the-fall-guy-imax-poster.png?resize=819

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 21 August 2025 11:42 (eight months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY5ZTQyYTYtZDVlMS00Zjk3LTkyMTgtNjA5ODViODgwOGMxXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Uphill All the Way (1986)

visiting, Friday, 29 August 2025 02:53 (eight months ago)

Caught Stealing has kind of a fun variation on this.

The whole city’s coming after him.#CaughtStealingMovie – Sneak Peeks August 23, in theatres everywhere August 29. Get tickets. https://t.co/u9yioQH4US

Poster Artwork by Ise Ananphada pic.twitter.com/RaYzuYb9s5

— Caught Stealing Movie (@StealingMovie) August 20, 2025

the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 29 August 2025 03:04 (eight months ago)

Oh and lol "MEL TILLIS as BOOGER"

the way out of (Eazy), Friday, 29 August 2025 03:05 (eight months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMDNlNWRmZjMtZWJmYS00MDllLWFhODEtYjFhNzcxOWRlYWNjXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

The Monitors (1969)

visiting, Wednesday, 3 September 2025 02:45 (eight months ago)

this seems familiar but i couldn't find it here...
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmIxMmViZTItYzVhNS00NThiLWJiY2MtODBjNjU1MGQ2OWI1XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Bury Me an Angel (1971)

Kim Kimberly, Thursday, 11 September 2025 20:06 (eight months ago)

what a tagline

budo jeru, Thursday, 11 September 2025 20:27 (eight months ago)

three weeks pass...

non-comedic but busy enough.
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmQ4YmRhZDktMDhjMS00ZGQ1LWE1M2ItNWE2MDY3ZWIzN2VmXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Velvet Smooth (1976)

visiting, Sunday, 5 October 2025 18:57 (seven months ago)

the best version of this i could find
https://i.ibb.co/ymMcwGGg/bad-manners-blu.webp

Bad Manners (1984)

visiting, Sunday, 12 October 2025 20:13 (seven months ago)

It's relatively mild, but Take This Job and Shove It (1981) - the first monster truck comedy! - has a busy poster:
https://alchetron.com/cdn/take-this-job-and-shove-it-film-16e74ed2-deda-405a-b23d-6cfbe902686-resize-750.jpg

Why was I reading about that film? It was the first film financed by Cinema Group Ventures, whose next film was Walter Hill's Southern Comfort. The company seems to have bimbled along without attracting enough attention for a Wikipedia page. Their next film after that was Hysterical, which is one of those not-quite-the-80s comedies from the late-70s/early-80s that has dropped off the face of the Earth, although it also has a busy poster:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8b/Hysterical_1983_poster.jpg

It's so obscure that the official trailer appears to be a VHS rip. It has 1970s icon Richard Kiel! But in 1983. That's like having Blondie and The Muppets, but in 1983. It feels weird.

The company went on to produce Best Defense, the rotten Dudley Moore film that had Eddie Murphy in a kind of tacked-on cameo. It opened at number two on the same weekend as Ghostbusters because Eddie Murphy was so hot back then. Imagine if he had been in Ghostbusters. The film would have made infinite money. But it would have been a completely different film - or at least the second half would have been completely different - because there's no way they would have given Eddie Murphy as little to do as they gave Ernie Hudson.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 12 October 2025 21:06 (seven months ago)

Does Velvet Smooth really have a guest star called Emerson Boozer? It seems so. He was an actual person:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson_Boozer

And he still is, because he's still alive. But he was as well.

Shove It dates from the tiny, tiny window of time when it seemed that Robert Hays might go on to be a major comedy star. And for a brief moment he was, because next year he was in Airplane II, which at least made a profit if not very much money. And then, oblivion.

Ashley Pomeroy, Sunday, 12 October 2025 21:14 (seven months ago)

Noticing the name on the truck there, leading me to interesting details in Wikipedia articles

"The original Bigfoot appears in the 1981 film Take This Job and Shove It, where it appears as the main character's personal truck. This was the first appearance of a monster truck in film. A virtual Bigfoot is used by the character Aech inside the virtual reality universe OASIS in the 2018 film Ready Player One. Other appearances by Bigfoot trucks in film include Cannonball Run 2, Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, Road House, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, Tango & Cash, and Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle."

I don't think I heard about monster trucks until the 90s, but that wasn't my mien at the time.

bendy, Monday, 13 October 2025 13:55 (six months ago)

Well, you must have missed out on Bigfoot and the Muscle Machines!

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

peace, man, Monday, 13 October 2025 13:59 (six months ago)

Afraid I did miss out! But maybe I did hear about monster trucks in the eighties? Like wrestling, which seemed to be getting big in the eighties, but became such a phenomenon in the next decade it eclipsed its earlier pop culture status.

bendy, Tuesday, 14 October 2025 01:44 (six months ago)

feel like this one was probably here before but it didn't come up in a quick search:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNjdlMDljZjctNDVhMi00NmRkLWFmZDQtZGRlOTE5MDc3OWU4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

Meatballs III: Summer Job (1986)

The ghost of a dead porn star comes to Earth to help a nerd with his sex life.

Also, RIP Drew Struzan. I'm guessing the poster is much better than the movie.

visiting, Wednesday, 15 October 2025 20:06 (six months ago)

It is.

She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 15 October 2025 20:11 (six months ago)

verging on straight illustration but plenty busy... fantastic poster for a (iirc) great movie:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmY1MzhhN2QtMzdjMC00MDU2LWI3YmEtZjY0MzkxYzRlOTI3XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Busting (1974)

visiting, Saturday, 18 October 2025 00:39 (six months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjUwMDc5OTgtMjJmMS00NTY1LTg1MGMtY2NmYTU0OTUyZTU5XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Odd Jobs (1986)

Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 22 October 2025 22:34 (six months ago)

I sometimes wonder how godawful some of these films have to be that I, obsessive 80’s/90s-era patron of video stores and watcher of cable TV, and of comedies in particular, haven’t heard of them.

She's the Tariff (cryptosicko), Thursday, 23 October 2025 00:01 (six months ago)

one month passes...

https://www.movieposters.com/cdn/shop/products/1fb2f41117088c5795781da9e68ae4d8_96cb1691-0651-4490-8f99-9d9f05969478_1024x1024.jpg?v=1762516033

War, Italian Style (1965)

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 05:35 (four months ago)

^^^ elder abuse: the movie

Modollno Kahn (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 16 December 2025 06:30 (four months ago)

non-comedy but plenty busy... really nice poster
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMWM1ZDhiYmEtNTM3Mi00NmMzLTg3MTYtYzBhNGFhZmMzNDk4XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

The Human Factor (1976)

visiting, Saturday, 20 December 2025 01:29 (four months ago)

So there were two movies called The Human Factor in the '70s? The other is Otto Preminger's final film, which had a decidedly non-claustrophobic poster.

cryptosicko, Saturday, 20 December 2025 02:01 (four months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMmE2N2ZkNmItMjE0OC00MDk2LWIwNjgtYmY5YmViMzM5MjliXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

The Hellcats (1968)

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 December 2025 23:39 (four months ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNmUxOTM4MzMtYTU3Yy00NTJhLWFiOTUtYmEzZTk5YzlkZjY2XkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_.jpg

Throw Out the Anchor! (1974)

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 29 December 2025 23:41 (four months ago)

two weeks pass...

so many Brewsters in the 80s, what happened to all the Brewsters

Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 14 January 2026 10:17 (three months ago)

they drooped

the important "maybe his head just did that" theory (stevie), Wednesday, 14 January 2026 10:55 (three months ago)

three weeks pass...

far predating the usual movies here but this is a beautiful poster:

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w1280/fjZyRK70hMNZAHOooKaWSbGC41E.jpg

Derby Day (1923)

visiting, Wednesday, 4 February 2026 18:40 (three months ago)

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6712c07982bef431579bcba5/e562fc12-4612-462f-be4a-427a40b73b4a/Baltimore_Bullet_SMALL.jpg
the baltimore bullet, 1980

andrew m., Wednesday, 4 February 2026 21:27 (three months ago)

James Coburn has got to be high up on the list of actors who appeared in movies with these kind of posters.

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 22:00 (three months ago)

Tied with Dom Deluise iirc

Don Knotts, Dick van Dyke in contention as well

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 4 February 2026 23:47 (three months ago)

https://a.ltrbxd.com/resized/film-poster/7/0/5/1/6/70516-safari-3000-0-2000-0-3000-crop.jpg?v=e3445f993a

Safari 3000, 1982

cryptosicko, Tuesday, 10 February 2026 13:44 (three months ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/zGtLw4c7/s-l1200-(1).jpg

calmer chameleon (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 15 February 2026 23:29 (two months ago)

god I loved that movie as a kid

congragulations (stevie), Monday, 16 February 2026 08:48 (two months ago)

also anita morris got done dirty by the artist of that VHS cover

congragulations (stevie), Monday, 16 February 2026 08:49 (two months ago)

didn’t know Bob Hoskins was in it

Toe Bean Sprout (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 16 February 2026 09:13 (two months ago)

three weeks pass...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQeMxp-sJ4jLDfD5ADrHe1Yq6f7Qm_-5m0095bC5uSibdEo0evxCIxYohQ&s=10

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, 2026

Lithium Just Madison (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 March 2026 18:55 (two months ago)

one month passes...

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BY2M1ZTA0MTItZWNhYS00ZDAxLWIyMDQtMzIxNDg2N2NhYjcwXkEyXkFqcGc@._V1_FMjpg_UX1000_.jpg

The Hollywood Knights (1980)

visiting, Monday, 20 April 2026 23:08 (three weeks ago)

Introducing Robert Wuhl! Opposite Fran Drescher! In a FLOYD MUTRUX film!!? Good god

Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:00 (three weeks ago)

lead character is ... Newbomb Turk!? I never heard the source of the band name, just thought it was just a phrase they turned

bendy, Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:20 (three weeks ago)

Tony Danza! Michelle Pfeiffer!

The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:25 (three weeks ago)

🖼

Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip, 2026

Tyler Perry’s Ruth’s Chris

The New Blockader (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 21 April 2026 16:48 (three weeks ago)


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