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.
See previous Poster Hunt’s here!
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.
Every day for five years? That’s quite a claim!
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Secondly, I’d like to introduce you to Chopping Mall’s edit: SHORT-LIVED, NOW DEFUNCT) new sister blog, Cult Collage. The focus of this one will be mostly pictures (although music might feature occasionally too) and it’ll pick up on interesting film and non-film related ephemera. It’s pretty difficult to describe what I intend it to be; I think a collection of interesting images sums it up best, with a leaning towards pulp-art.
Currently it only has the 11 Poster Hunt pages from this blog but it’ll be updated often (far more often than this one) with other interesting posters, leaflets and ephemera.
So head over to:
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)
Regardless of the quality of the films though, the posters are certainly both gorgeous.
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).
However, Corman didn’t like the resulting film about a murderous sculptor possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, who was killed by a beautiful witch. So he shelved it for a year, bringing it out for director Stephanie Rothman to revise. Rothman turned the possessed sculptor into a vampire, shot extensive new footage (using a few members of the supporting cast) and—bingo!—“Blood Bath” was out in the theaters at last,
Might have to hunt this one out!
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!
