Comments on: Celebration of lurid monster-movie posters

By: kiptw

kiptw — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 05:20:00 +0000

Six years ago, an exhibit of movie posters came to a community college near me, and somehow I happened to see it. Each one of these (99% horror) posters was hand-painted — some entrepreneur in Ghana went from village to village with a VCR, a monitor (or projector?) and a generator, showing these bloody horrors to folks. Then the poster would be taken down and hung in the next place on the list. I photographed all the ones that were there. They were for sale too, and I wish I'd had more dough. The artists (often using canvas from flour sacks — visible, in some cases) varied from polished to comical, but they all went for the visceral thrills. My favorite was the half-man, half-dog.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 02:42:00 +0000

I fuckin’ LOVE that ‘Horrible Carnage’ poster. Shame I can’t afford even the cheapest of these. Bah. Stupid job…

By: Henry Pootel

Henry Pootel — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:42:00 +0000

I like how they have a “3D” preview of a 2D art collection.

By: bruceburbank

bruceburbank — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:06:00 +0000

Your link gave me a 404. This one might be better-

http://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/asp/searchresults.asp?st=U&view1=View&sale_value=2299&rf_lot_range_from=1&rf_lot_range_to=End

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:51:00 +0000

I did a college lecture on that “Monsters with Maidens” trope once. At its peak it was so expected in posters of the sci-fi/horror genre that they even used it where the “monster” in question was actually a protagonist, like Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.