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April 5th, 2024 — awesome movie poster friday, chilling classics cthursday, From The Feeds
While snowed in yesterday, I looked at the paper sticking out of my typewriter and discovered to my shock that I had not been writing my masterpiece at all! Instead, I wrote awesome movie poster friday over and over and over. Yeah, I made some neat designs with the spacing and format and all, but it was a bit disconcerting nonetheless. Rather than view my fugue state typing as a sign of psychosis I am taking the glass half full approach and viewing it as a sign from Blog that I should foist an AMPF on the world, as it's been a hot minute couple of years since the last one.
So here select posters from a few of the movies I've watched for Chilling Classics Cthursday so far. Some real bangers in the bunch!
I cannot believe Medusa has such a cool-ass poster. I mean, I can, actually...it's Italian after all, and Italian posters are always preem. But the movie is not worthy.
That said, it does raise the question: is that a very large glass, or a very tiny woman?
Also I suppose that's champagne she's soaking in, but it looks like something much less savory.
But overall this poster could only be improved by adding Cameron Mitchell. (You'll find that is true of most things.)
These posters for
Oasis of the Zombies are way more sleazy, way more exciting, and way more fun than the movie is, that's for sure.
Hard to believe these all represent the same film, yet in my opinion none of them represent it accurately. Oh well, they all look good and take it from me: looking good is the only thing that matters. *nail polish emoji*
Speaking of inaccurate representations, this poster for
Crypt of the Living Dead that has it looking like a wacky vampire comedy? Twas the style at the time I suppose (was it
The Fearless Vampire Killers's fault?), and it brought to mind the cheeky/sexy poster for
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.
Two movies that were better than I anticipated, one that was not, but three great posters:
Well, I'd better get back to it. A madwoman's ranting doesn't type itself! ...
or does it?
August 20th, 2021 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
It has been a hotter than hot minute since I've done an Awesome Movie Poster Friday, but the drought ends right now! For one post, at least!
I've been collecting chirashi for a couple of years now, and I figured it's high time to scan and post some of 'em. Chirashi are mini-posters/flyers (~ 7" x 10") given out at Japanese movie theaters during a film's run; they've got sweet-ass artwork (usually created exclusively for the Japanese market) on the front and a shit-ton of info I can't read (YET) on the back. I love them. Of course I do...look at them. I want to marry them all!
THE CONVENT
BURNT OFFERINGS
CHILD'S PLAY 2
DARK WATER
EYES OF A STRANGER
FRIDAY THE 13th PART 2
FRIDAY THE 13th PART VIII: JASON TAKES MANHATTAN
THE FUNHOUSE
THE HANDMAIDEN
HELL NIGHT
JU-ON 2
MY BLOODY VALENTINE
MEMENTO MORI
POLTERGEIST II: THE OTHER SIDE
PROM NIGHT
PULSE
PUMPKINHEAD
SUICIDE CLUB
THE SWARM
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS
WHITE: MELODY OF THE CURSE
WISHING STAIRS
X-CROSS
Bonus! Not a chirashi per se, but similar: here's a Korean flyer for THE DESCENT.
May 27th, 2016 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, VHS rules
Well, friends, the long national nightmare known as VHS Week is finally over. Back to regular life as we know it. Back to movies (mostly) on disc or made out of pixels or whatever. Don't worry, I still have some tapes around here to watch and I'm sure I'll let you know when I do, even the garbage ones. What am I saying! I mean
especially the garbage ones. For now, though, let's celebrate with some awesome movie posters from some of the awesome and not entirely awesome movies from VHS Week. You probably knew this was coming because of the post title, right? Good job, you, and thanks for reading!
May 27th, 2016 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, VHS rules
Well, friends, the long national nightmare known as VHS Week is finally over. Back to regular life as we know it. Back to movies (mostly) on disc or made out of pixels or whatever. Don't worry, I still have some tapes around here to watch and I'm sure I'll let you know when I do, even the garbage ones. What am I saying! I mean
especially the garbage ones. For now, though, let's celebrate with some awesome movie posters from some of the awesome and not entirely awesome movies from VHS Week. You probably knew this was coming because of the post title, right? Good job, you, and thanks for reading!
February 19th, 2016 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
What in the puking nun HELL is this?
Okay, whoa whoa, I am going to pump the brakes on my hate. While nothing has ever made me feel older and less "with" "it" than this instagram motif nonsense, there is a part of me that digs it. Well, I dig the
idea of it, at least. Maybe not quite as a poster, but as a marketing tactic, sure. Look at
The Blair Witch Project–social media and La Internette can surely be used to great ends to make a movie feel ALIVE, ALIVE, ALIVE. (Man, I have a hankerin' to watch
The Funhouse.)
However.
If you are going to come up with this "look at my new house, we are moving in!" idea, marketing people, then for fuck's sake...please spring for some
actual photography so it looks as if "Rebelleous99" has taken an
actual picture of an
actual house and an
actual moving truck. As it stands, it looks as if she found some Amityville fanart and right-clicked that shit.
On the other hand, it also looks like something Thomas Kinkade might have shat out whilst being tormented in the pits of Hell, and I'm into that.
February 19th, 2016 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
What in the puking nun HELL is this?
Okay, whoa whoa, I am going to pump the brakes on my hate. While nothing has ever made me feel older and less "with" "it" than this instagram motif nonsense, there is a part of me that digs it. Well, I dig the
idea of it, at least. Maybe not quite as a poster, but as a marketing tactic, sure. Look at
The Blair Witch Project–social media and La Internette can surely be used to great ends to make a movie feel ALIVE, ALIVE, ALIVE. (Man, I have a hankerin' to watch
The Funhouse.)
However.
If you are going to come up with this "look at my new house, we are moving in!" idea, marketing people, then for fuck's sake...please spring for some
actual photography so it looks as if "Rebelleous99" has taken an
actual picture of an
actual house and an
actual moving truck. As it stands, it looks as if she found some Amityville fanart and right-clicked that shit.
On the other hand, it also looks like something Thomas Kinkade might have shat out whilst being tormented in the pits of Hell, and I'm into that.
February 19th, 2016 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
What in the puking nun HELL is this?
Okay, whoa whoa, I am going to pump the brakes on my hate. While nothing has ever made me feel older and less "with" "it" than this instagram motif nonsense, there is a part of me that digs it. Well, I dig the
idea of it, at least. Maybe not quite as a poster, but as a marketing tactic, sure. Look at
The Blair Witch Project–social media and La Internette can surely be used to great ends to make a movie feel ALIVE, ALIVE, ALIVE. (Man, I have a hankerin' to watch
The Funhouse.)
However.
If you are going to come up with this "look at my new house, we are moving in!" idea, marketing people, then for fuck's sake...please spring for some
actual photography so it looks as if "Rebelleous99" has taken an
actual picture of an
actual house and an
actual moving truck. As it stands, it looks as if she found some Amityville fanart and right-clicked that shit.
On the other hand, it also looks like something Thomas Kinkade might have shat out whilst being tormented in the pits of Hell, and I'm into that.
May 14th, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
May 7th, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, silent hill
April 30th, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, halloween
April 23rd, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
April 16th, 2010 — 1981, awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, i am a big lame, VHS rules
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 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds, Zombies
March 26th, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
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 12th, 2010 — awesome movie poster friday, From The Feeds
