Dark Roasted Blend: Thrilling Vintage Movie Posters

"QUANTUM SHOT" #570
Link - by A. Abrams


      Spewed from Intergalactic Space...

      Bizarre titles, even stranger storylines, cheesy effects and dead-serious
      acting (I am not acting in a B-movie, what are you talking about? This is
      the defining point of my career!). All this adds to the esoteric charm,
      and even to the addiction that some people feel toward vintage movies and
      posters - here are some examples that might tickle you fancy:

      

      These leeches are not a female kind, but no less vicious and hungry:

      

      Why we did not hear about this beast before? This thing could eat King
      Kong for breakfast! -

      

      Another kind of monster... is alive:

      

      And this guy is alive as well! (I wonder if there would be a movie about
      them both battling each other in this "undead" condition?)

      

      Some of the modern movie posters are worthy of mention, for an entirely
      different reason. Check out this movie poster.... Creepy! (for the whole
      collection of various September 11 "premonitions" in posters and art,
      click
      here) -

      

      Thunderstruck at their own powers...

      It seems that B-movie posters were often much better looking than a movie
      itself... just like paperback covers in the 1950s were often better
      executed than purple prose inside:

      

      "Boiling tale of mad love that shocks even the UnEarthly..." Check that
      out -

      

      "Posterman" Daniel Strebin has a huge number of great posters in his
      collection,
      which we encourage you to browse and perhaps choose some to buy.

      

      Some radical science fiction (especially thrilling are Japanese posters,
      somehow they combine more monsters and dangers per square inch than seems
      even possible):

      
      

      Classic stuff, no less creepy today -

      
      

      

      

      

      

      The brain.... and the hand.... that would not die!!! -

      

      

      This is by no means a definitive collection (for example, want the surreal
      movie posters from Poland? Check out this
      site!)... send us tips about other cool posters and movies and we may write a
      solid article about it all. Russian poster for "Star Wars".... sublime -

      

      Image sources:
        Posterman Dan,
        ModernFred, Dimbl14

      CONTINUE TO "MOST CURIOUS EPHEMERA!" ->

Category: Vintage

12 Comments:

Unknown said...: Any of these available in higher resolution? Would love to print some out and hang them...; ___
Radmila said...: I saw "Our Hitler" in the early 80's.
It was 5 or 6 hours long with an hour intermission.

No kidding.

It was part of the Toronto Film Festival in the first few years of it's start.; ___
Kvaser said...: Not sure if you know this site, but it has a gallery of polish movie posters really interesting:

http://www.agrayspace.com/posters/

Some of them are really disturbing :D; ___
Handycam said...: The "Tobor" poster is a funny rip-off of the famous "Forbidden Planet" poster:

http://tinyurl.com/r5net2; ___
Azdaja said...: Oh, I think I own the book of "The Venetian Affair", bought mostly because it's the most awfully written thing ever making it the best thing to read.

Some gorgeous posters here!; ___
Marrock said...: I want that Russian Star Wars poster!; ___
Anonymous said...: The Russian poster actualy says: "Star Wars - a Cosmic Western"; ___
Joey Stalin said...: The Russian poster. Unfortunately it's not an official poster. it`s fake. A joke.; ___
ArtRevival said...: some of these i found on Art's Not Dead artsnotdead.com; ___
BDDC said...: http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/ has hundreds of different movie poster scans. There are some really cool sci-fi, horror, and sexploitation posters in full-size scans.; ___
soundchaser said...: http://www.agrayspace.com/posters/polish2/Sex_lies_and_videotape_1990.jpg

Wow... This is the first time I see a movie poster containing nudity.

What's funny is there is no nudity in the movie itself.; ___
Movie Poster Museum said...: Really nice post and a great selection of cult and vintage movie posters. You can visit the online Movie Poster Museum here: http://www.FreeFilmPosters.com; ___

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