Entries Tagged 'awesome movie poster friday' ↓
May 14th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
May 7th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday, silent hill
April 30th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday, halloween
April 23rd, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
April 16th, 2010 — 1981, From The Feeds, VHS rules, awesome movie poster friday, i am a big lame
When I think of Warner Home Video (and believe me, I often do), I think of a specific VHS package design the company introduced around 1981 (OF COURSE it was 1981, 1981 rules). Their entire catalogue got the same treatment:
- Mmm, hard clamshell packaging
- large photo on the front, often pulled from the film's poster
- a big dot on the cover & spine indicating genre
- 2 small photos on back
- copy that's actually worthwhile: rather than some grammatically-incorrect nonsense typed up by a PR person who doesn't give two craps, WHV films featured critical notes and smart copy; a predecessor to today's often-stellar DVD liner notes
- the cool black & color stripey background
The part of my brain that's OCD (7%) absolutely appreciates the uniformity of the WHV line, and the part of my brain that's nostalgia (36%) gets many warm fuzzies whenever I spot one of these hulking plastic cases on a shelf. I'm not gonna deny that my love of VHS is rooted firmly in nostalgia- I've certainly
talked about it plenty of times before. Neither will I deny that DVDs are superior in a few ways: durability, convenience, picture quality. But for horror geeks who came of age in the 80s, there's no beating VHS. The tapes are more than just copies of movies- they're tangible experiences; trust me, I know how corny this all sounds, but it's true. That pattern in the background of a Warner Home Video can instantly bring to mind 50 memories, of the films themselves and so much more.
All of this means: I heart Warner Home Video. I have a hard time fighting my collector impulses whenever I see one of these- I want to take them home, even if I already own the movie or the movie stinks. I want them expressly for the purposes of sitting on a shelf, looking uniform and pretty. I know how stupid that idea is, so I let them go and then I have these mild pulses of regret. Should I go back and pick up
Dressed To Kill? Why oh why did I let
The Exorcist II slip through my fingers? At least I have
Humanoids from the Deep to console me.
I'm so lame. But Warner Home Video box art sure isn't!
Some of these are courtesy of
Basement of Ghoulish Decadence and some are courtesy of
Slasher Index. Others, from random places like eBay. This post needed some serious digging. I feel like Indiana Jones! No wait, Lara Croft.
April 2nd, 2010 — From The Feeds, Zombies, awesome movie poster friday
March 26th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
If John Waters and Russ Meyer had a baby, and that baby became a bunch of people and those people made horror movies, they would be
Gonzoriffic. If you'll recall (and I know you will), we had Gonzo's Andrew Shearer, Monica Puller, and Rachael Deacon on the completely manic first episode of
The Scare-ening.
From their headquarters in Athens, GA, the Gonzo crew makes microbudget films that are funny, gory, and best of all, girl-positive. They make movies without pretension simply because they love making movies- an attitude that's increasingly hard to come by in the indie horror scene, where everyone wants to be famous. None of the Gonzo women call themselves Scream Queens- even though some of them have appeared in more than ten films. I like the way these kids think! Thing is, no matter how I feel about their philosophies or their films, I wouldn't feature Gonzorrific for Awesome Movie Poster Friday unless their productions had...well, awesome posters. Lucky for us they do, proving that microbudget doesn't mean megacrap- also proving that indie horror posters can completely wipe the floor with unimaginative, over-Photoshopped studio output.
March 19th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday, lesbian vampires
March 12th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
March 5th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
February 26th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
February 19th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
February 12th, 2010 — 1977, From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
February 5th, 2010 — 1977, From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
January 29th, 2010 — From The Feeds, awesome movie poster friday
