post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

Now I'm curious: was there actually an elephant in Madhouse?

"Rat Race" is awful but at least they were trying to do one of "these." "Madhouse" and "Going Under" really show you the gig is up - they're slightly cartooned, barely caricatured airbrush art, and the only reason to do them that way is that it'd be tough to get all the actors in the right position (and to make the door bulge like that in "Madhouse"). Once computers and stuff make that easier...ehh. I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

Another awkward transition (sorry for huge):

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/brain-donors-movie-poster.jpg%3Fw%3D580

Did I miss a scene from this movie? Because I don't remember anything resembling this:

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/used-cars-movie-poste-style-b.jpg

I also think the point made upthread about stars wanting their faces bigger on the poster is key.

i'm guessing it's more that the detail in these kind of images gets lost on video/dvd covers and (nowadays) onscreen thumbnails.

Madhouse is a film I will always remember for this:

Bernice: I need your opinion on something here. These are my favorite names for the baby so far: "Amaretta," "Caramel," or "Treblinka"
Claudia: You yokel, naming your baby after a German concentration camp!
Bernice: I thought Treblinka was one of those cute little fairies from Cinderella.
Claudia: You moron!
Bernice: I hope my water breaks all over your fur coat!

In the category of homages/revivals, poster artist The Dude Designs strives "to paint, illustrate and hand assemble images which have personality, that invoke those memories and emotions you used to get when you held a video box in your hand or stared with amazement and curiosity at an illustrated movie poster." The blog gets into some detail on each poster, which is pretty sweet. He works in some different styles, and is mainly a horror guy, but a few are totally tapping into this vein. The one thing is that there's not much in the way of caricature - all the actors look pretty closely keyed off reference photos. This and the amount of modeling through shade (aibrush?) makes it look much more 80s than 70s... But still! Wish I'd seen his Heat poster everywhere instead of the shitty photo of the two leads on a pink background.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HBxx__w7rY0/UciL2XPX1PI/AAAAAAAA5gE/9F0_mgHkWMc/s1600/pdc_theheatposter4.jpg

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQxMTIyMzYzOV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTM0MTI2OQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

http://nebula.wsimg.com/4151447b805ae0b771db4d32e3870d0a?AccessKeyId=71DC53FC6978419123ED&disposition=0&alloworigin=1

thread delivers!

I hope dude starts getting lots of work soon

Seems like he's doing okay - Heat was a pretty big movie even if they hardly used the poster - but agreed!

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1/1621694_10152250443126563_939017797_n.jpg

Has anyone started making fanart of these for new movies?

I mean, I'm not crazy about stuff like this example, but I would be curious to see what someone else could come up with:

http://thisisnotadvertising.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/the-matrix.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/139/MPW-69614

borderline with "just any old illustration" but I think the explosions crammed into the still life at bottom left put it over. Wondering based on this one: was there a wave of The Sting ripoffs equivalent to the Smokey & the Bandit influence discussed above?

http://images.moviepostershop.com/every-which-way-but-loose-movie-poster-1978-1020199611.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/akJlaQD.png

old to semi-old caricatures you would travel back in time to, etc

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/85/MPW-42736

Not quite selling the madcap sexy humor, probably because it looks like Kate Jackson is about to stab Elliott Gould in the ear.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/can-i-do-it-til-i-need-glasses-movie-poster-1977-1020193197.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/bugsy-malone-movie-poster-1976-1020197146.jpg

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/49/MPW-24668

Bugsy Malone is kinda too nice / ordered for the thread, but I'm glad it's here

Yeah, it's definitely not 'the style,' but god is it just *packed*.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Inside_Moves_FilmPoster.jpeg

Could be busier or more caricatured, but bonus points for being totally fucking unappealing and giving you no idea what the movie will be about (note, i also thought it said "Inside Mars" at first, which REALLY through me off).

Marvel commissioned one in this style for the new Captain America movie:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TG40zdMjwqs/Uy2uRIqW6mI/AAAAAAAAUSU/ueJGshkGR6g/s1600/Cap-2-poster-col-paolo-rivera.jpg

Needs more caricature, or at least, would be awesome if they'd commissioned a poster depicting their serious superhero drama as a vaguely racy patriotic chase across the USA. Also, oh shit, the Falcon is in this movie?!

Was thinking last night though about the observation that these type of posters size down badly for VHS boxes and soundtrack albums on cassette, which I do think is pretty convincing - but man, with today's super giant size ad campaigns (images the size of a whole building! Two billboards that have to be seen from the right POV to correctly display as one image!) you could really see a revival of these. Fuck, even moderately large posters (like some of the really wide subway platform ones) could do wonders with this style. Right now they look like banner ads printed really big - there's nothing to hold your attention beyond the commanding stare of the star as cult object.

Redford's likelness on that cap'n america poster is giving me heavy Three Days of the Condor vibes

That Winter Soldier poster is great - really fits the deliberately 70s-paranoia feeling of the movie (and makes the Three Days of the Condor vibe even more appropriate). Also lol at BATROC ZE LEEPAIR making it to a movie poster in 2014. You finally made it, you crazy French acrobat-assassin!

http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m138/dcfloyd/amarcordposter.jpg

Did the Soviets ever go for this? I've seen all those great, trippy art posters for familiar Western blockbusters, would have been awesome if they were also turning our dramas into capers and our bloodbaths into mud wrestling goofs.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/record-city-movie-poster-1977-1020233704.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1974/posters/bank_shot_xlg.jpg

http://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-assets/assets/Title/1264715234/125/PosterFull-BANKSHOT-poster-001.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iHQWH-8xE60/Tpm9Fi1F4mI/AAAAAAAAAdg/G7v-yhv80nY/s1600/Brinks+Job.jpg

I feel like a lot of non-Casavettes Peter Falk films could fit here, but surfing Wiki, I only really found this other one. It's not even actually *that* busy, but it still feels cluttered by contemporary standards (plus, caricatures).

http://www.impawards.com/1976/posters/murder_by_death.jpg

I can imagine a A Woman Under The Influence poster with characters running amok around the center of a caricatured Gena Rowlands.

Broken link, cryptosicko.

Loving Elvis Telecom's. Awww, Peter Falk!

Speaking of Falk...

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/42/MPW-21116

oops!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7f/Murder_by_death_movie_poster.jpg

http://coronacomingattractions.com/sites/default/files/news/devil_and_max_devlin_poster.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-forum-movie-poster-1966-1020200587.jpg

someone needs to get to work on the stuff itt and do it for:

Movie Posters With All References to Movies Removed

Would decorate my whole house with that.

http://i.imgur.com/Y51yjhy.jpg

want to watch that immediately

Had to look up whether that was a parody! Sadly, the poster for the sequel gives up.

hollyweed

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAvlJfwiG7k/UBw9eFWhViI/AAAAAAAAKwE/EPJrqT9V6kQ/s1600/HAMBURGER+FRONT+copy.jpg

no idea if this is a repeat, searching pics is tedious

dont think its been posted yet, thank you

there doesn't appear to be a screenwriting credit for Hollywood Hot Tubs, imagine that.

think Lesley Halliwell once described the Carry On movie scripts as "'remembered' rather than written"

A teenager gets in trouble for vandalizing the Hollywood sign and goes to work for his uncle's hot tub repair business rather than go to prison. The nephew falls in love with a secretary at his uncle's company, but risks losing her when caught in compromising situations while performing his duties as a hot tub repairman.

I mean, a film like this practically writes itself!