Poster Hunt
Poster Hunt #12 - Mold
It’s been an absolute age since the last Poster Hunt blogpost - there hasn’t been one since July 2010! But today I stumbled upon a picture that was just too good not to revive the long-forgotten series. A pedant might well point out that this appears to a cover rather than an actual poster but… pfft! Who listens to pedants anyway?
So here is the beautiful artwork for MOLD! It looks a pretty fabulous film, so I might have to give a watch some time soon.
Poster Hunt #11 - Nightfall (and New Blog! New Blog!)
First up, here’s a Poster Hunt for July.
Here are a couple of posters for Jaques Tourneur’s Nightfall (IMDb) from 1957, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft. I don’t write much about the films for these Poster Hunt posts (as I select them for artwork rather than the film - most of them I haven’t seen), so if you do want to know more about the film I’ll direct you to this comprehensive blog post at Noir of the Week.
Poster Hunt #10 - Suspiria & Giallo
Whilst most of the posters I’ve selected for Poster Hunt have been classic style, painted scenes, I thought that this time I’d go for a more modern, minimal look: clean lines and bold block colours.
So here we have two posters, the first for Dario Argento’s Suspiria (a truly fantastic film, I recommend it highly) and the second for his much more recent Giallo (which I haven’t seen and which received very mixed reviews)
Poster Hunt #9 - Blood Bath
A fairly late-in-the-month Poster Hunt, this classic and enticing poster comes from the B-movie super house that was American International Pictures.
This actually sounds pretty intriguing! From IMDb:
Roger Corman, noted producer/director, hired Jack Hill in 1964 to write and direct a horror film with the condition that he make liberal use of footage from “Operation Titian”, a thriller Corman produced with Francis Ford Coppola (!) in Yugoslavia, but deemed unworthy of USA release. Hill was given actor William Campbell, Titian’s star, and hired Lori Saunders (still using her original name of Linda Saunders, and soon Petticoat Junction-bound).
Poster Hunt #8 - Goliath and the Vampires
This gorgeous piece of retro poster-art looks back to a day when a film could be sold entirely on the strength of a poster. And looking at this one, you can see why!
SEE: The Revolt of the Faceless Humanoids? Count me in!
Poster Hunt #7 -James Bond and The Matrix - Ghana style
This month Poster Hunt comes in the form of TWO gorgeously ridiculous hand-painted posters from Ghana. Many of these paintings were made by (incredibly creative) artists who had not seen the film
And if you like these, you should definitely check out Ephemera Assemblyman
Poster Hunt #6 - Count Yorga, Vampire
After completely missing out December, Poster Hunt makes a glamorous 2010 return with this rather lovely poster for Count Yorga, Vampire.
They just don’t make them like that any more…
Poster Hunt #5 - The Erotic Adventures of Zorro
What with November being quite busy and the poster for The Killer Shrews being quite so fab, Poster Hunt got left somewhat by the wayside this month.
Still, just over half-way through, the showcase of fabulous and/or strange posters returns with the Erotic Adventures of Zorro. How classy.
Poster Hunt #4 - The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant
As we’ve moved into October, it’s about time that Poster Hunt returned with another helping of cinematic presentation wonder…
This time, we’ve left behind the Nazisploitation and Spillane’s Man-Woman violence and moved to the uh.. somewhat unrecognised ‘Head Transplant’ sub-genre. Infact, The Incredible 2 Headed Transplant is IMDb user’s 6th Favourite Head Transplant film. Out of 6.
It was released to DVD fairly recently, coupled with the The Thing With Two Heads. I think there might be a theme running there….
Poster Hunt #3 - I, The Jury
Another month can mean only one thing; it’s time for another Poster Hunt post. This time, fresh from the stash of exploitation flick posters for films I haven’t seen (and have little desire to…), comes Micky Spillane’s I, The Jury.
Coming from an era (1954…) when “man-woman violence” could be used as a selling point, here is I, The Jury
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