BEST HORROR MOVIE POSTER ART
PBena75373
Sometimes they're better than the movie they're advertising!!!
My all time faves in this thread are without doubt:-
VAMPIRE CIRCUS (1971) (UK quad- simply gorgeous!!)
THE EXORCIST (1973) (eerie and subtle poster for a landmark genre shocker!!)
JAWS (1975) (if only the shark depicted here had REALLY been that big!!!)
CARRIE (1976) (the ultimate in "before and after" horror poster art!)
SUSPIRIA (1976) (UK quad- the poster that just said it all!!)
PHANTASM (1979) (terrifying enough...........................but the film
as well?!?)
What about yours?
Peter PBena...@aol.com
Peloquin
I don't have the bucks to buy the real deal, but I've collected many pics of
posters over the net, and have to say that the old Italian Hammer posters
are quite striking....
Actually, the of the Italian posters of many different films, are quite
nice...
They are usually very bold and colourful, and are far more violent and gory,
than any I have ever seen.
Peloquin
SAMHAIN
The original Halloween with the pumpkin holding the knife.
Christopher M. Stangl
The "Dawn of the Dead" US poster art is fantastic. I like a nice,
stark, minimalist poster, and "DOTD" delivers.
-Chris Stangl
Steven Smith
Peloquin (coker_...@hotmail.com) wrote:
: I don't have the bucks to buy the real deal, but I've collected many pics of
: posters over the net, and have to say that the old Italian Hammer posters
: are quite striking....
: Actually, the of the Italian posters of many different films, are quite
: nice...
: They are usually very bold and colourful, and are far more violent and gory,
: than any I have ever seen.
The 3 original Italian posters for HORROR OF DRACULA (DRACULA IL VAMPIRO
in Italy anyway) are my favorites, and Peloquin is right. They're big
bucks if you can even find them.
The French 47X63 HORROR OF DRACULA is a beauty too but is easier to find
than the Italian posters.
The medium size French poster for CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF is very nice.
UK quad for VAMPIRE CIRCUS is pretty unique. This is in the spirit of
the 'generic' (for lack of better term) Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey
Circus advertisement posters.
The Italian 55X79 NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD is pretty cool with the
hand coming out of the grave. A must own in my opinion.
US one sheet for EVIL DEAD is simple yet effective.
Oh, the Italian DAWN OF THE DEAD (ZOMBI) 55X79 is also cool with the
zombies!!! Better than the US poster artwork.
One of my own personal favorites is the Italian 39X55 BLACK SUNDAY with
the guy putting the killer mask on Barbara Steele...a less expensive
French or Belgium poster exists with similar artwork.
Hmmmmm... what else???
Christopher M. Stangl
On 8 Nov 1997, PBena75373 wrote:
> Sometimes they're better than the movie they're advertising!!!
>
> My all time faves in this thread are without doubt:-
> THE EXORCIST (1973) (eerie and subtle poster for a landmark genre shocker!!)
Absolutely. One of the best film posters of any sort.
> JAWS (1975) (if only the shark depicted here had REALLY been that big!!!)
> CARRIE (1976) (the ultimate in "before and after" horror poster art!)
> SUSPIRIA (1976) (UK quad- the poster that just said it all!!)
> What about yours?
> Peter PBena...@aol.com
I'm partial to the "Beetlejuice" poster (which sort of figures
into this... sort of).
The "Gremlins" poster is pretty well-designed.
"Andy Warhol's 'Frankenstein'"- The "Stitches" poster... wow.
"Halloween", of course... there's something about posters that can
just be boiled down to one, elegant image, which I really admire... the
"Halloween" poster is quite striking.
"Screamers"- the old one (can't recall the year). Just a very bad
drawing of a guy who has been turned inside out. A bad poster,
really, but it disturbed me as a child.
"Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'"- one of those simple, emblematic images,
again.
-Chris Stangl
O R l3 I T
This film is not quite horror...more of a thriller, but my vote would have to
be SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. It's eye-catching and if you look closely at the
skull on the back of the moth, you can see the skull is made up of six nude
women. You can somewhat see it on the video cover, but those who have the
movie poster can see it better (and ya'll should've already spotted that
image).
"Looks like some sort of secreted resin..."
---O R l3 I T
Joey Coppa
BillyBond
>From: ka...@aol.com (Kaiju)
>There was a great article in Cinefantastique once about movie poster
> artists--wish I could remember the one guy, the one who did several of my
> favorite Japanese monster movies.
I believe that was Reynold Brown, who did all kinds of posters during the
1950s. There was a TV special about him, too. He was really remarkable; he
did many of the more striking American International posters, some of the best
of Universal-International, and lots of others as well, from straight dramas
to Westerns to horror.
Bill Warren
J. Newman
Here are some of my faves (in no particular order):
- LORD OF ILLUSIONS
- THE FLY (Cronenberg's remake)
- VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (Carpenter's remake)
- all the HELLRAISER movies
- THE EXORCIST
- FROM DUSK TILL DAWN
- all the EVIL DEAD movies
- HALLOWEEN II
- PHANTASM
BigJ...@webtv.net
The Poster depicting the scene from Dawn of the Dead-The Director's Cut.
Sincerely,
John
BillyBond
I for one am very tired of the "big head" style of move poster. It's
dominated ALL American movie posters for the last 10-15 years, and it's about
time it was put to rest.
You see the principal actors in closeup, usually strongly-lit from one
side. Down at the bottom of the poster is a small image from the film,
usually architectural.
And that's it. Warners has used this the most, on films as different as
BATMAN FOREVER, HAMLET (Gibson) and SPACE JAM. Currently, it's the format
used for I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.
And it's the most boring poster style in movie history.
Bill Warren
Dennis A. Rodgers
How about the poster for "Black Sunday" with the beautiful Barbara
Steele??
Dennis
Matt Martinez
Timothy Clark wrote:
> This doesn't have to do with the "head shots" but along the same line.
> Anyway, The Relic had to be one of THE MOST BORING marketing campaigns
> ever. Just an abstract, reddish guy...screaming. Duh.
I kind of liked the old poster, with the shot of the museum from the
front. It was kind of creepy and had an F. Paul Wilson-ish feel to it.
(Of course, what I mean is that it was quite comparable to the book covers
of _The Keep_, _The Tomb_, and _The Touch_.)
--
Matt Martinez <mma...@bgnet.bgsu.edu>