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

http://blogintomystery.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/heavymetalmoebiusb.jpg?w=367&h=500

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/77/MPW-38847

http://www.authortonypiazza.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Freebie-Poster.jpg

Jack Davis rakin the bucks back then

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

http://i2.listal.com/image/145793/600full-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-poster.jpg

(Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

http://i.imgur.com/9L5uH9S.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com//mother-jugs-and-speed-movie-poster-1020215182.jpg

ha i guess these are all Jack Davis

http://media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c8/e6/66/c8e666e6e3b2f743be1382d638f4c190.jpg

Everything about Boogie Nights has to do with the '70s, and sure enough, that extends to the poster, too.

http://mrrumsey.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boogie_nights_ver1.jpg?w=300

(A couple of the images above aren't showing up for me at work, so sorry if it's already been posted.)

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/harper_valley_pta_ver1.jpg

http://blogwaybaby.com/Harper%20Valley%20PTA.jpg

http://ilarge.listal.com/image/135818/968full-the-cheap-detective-photo.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/hot_stuff.jpg

http://product-images.highwire.com/58136/69892.jpg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ibs2wXDLL._SY300_.jpg

SPIES poster is by moebius
american graffiti by mort drucker

http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_films/carry_on_girls/images/poster.jpg

http://i2.listal.com/image/137827/600full-what%27s-up%2C-doc%3F-poster.jpg

^best movie

WONDERFUL THREAD

have long wanted there to be a name for this basically vanished genre of movie poster illustration, this shit was like 75% of any video store i ever visited as a kid. Especially great for actually kinda serious heavy movies like California Split.

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:58 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Harry and Walter Go To New York! With Michael Caine & Diane Keaton! It's actually pretty good, not great, but entertaining nonetheless. The two bits of trivia from the imdb:
The film went massively overbudget and caused such a major cash crisis that Columbia Pictures nearly went out of business until a fund of German dentists, Cinerenta, agreed to help

co-finance the studio's other films.

After disastrous previews, Columbia heavily cut the film down. Director Mark Rydell claimed most of the film's jokes were the main victims.

That triva should read:

The film went massively overbudget and caused such a major cash crisis that Columbia Pictures nearly went out of business until a fund of German dentists, Cinerenta, agreed to help co-finance the studio's other films.

After disastrous previews, Columbia heavily cut the film down. Director Mark Rydell claimed most of the film's jokes were the main victims.

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/13051/cockfighter_poster_01__span.jpg

http://cf.badassdigest.com/_uploads/images/13051/cockfighter_poster_01__span.jpg

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

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

Grandma's Boy

http://www.impawards.com/1982/posters/night_shift.jpg

xp Rat Race

http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/106719.1020.A.jpg

http://grindhousefilms.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/jackiebrown.gif?w=600

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Blazing_Stewardesses.jpg

http://wrongsideoftheart.com/wp-content/gallery/cache/1218__x400_enter_the_dragon_poster_003.jpg

The giffed-up art for Jackie Brown is very appropriate for its time.

And this is the second time today Freebie & The Bean has come up in conversation.

boob spotted on blazing stewardesses, boob on blazing stewardesses

lol at the Euro translated titles for "The End"

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

A representation, especially pictorial or literary, in which the subject's distinctive features or peculiarities are deliberately exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect.

re: these posters in video rental places, always musty-smelling and discolored by years of sunlight through the front windows.

I think Donald Sutherland and Elliot Gould's faces were made specifically to be caricatured this way

more jack davis.

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

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/impossibledavisOSreduced.jpg

and will elder

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/87/MPW-43732

frank frazetta

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEFHoNt9z-Q/TwhnQG3Y0LI/AAAAAAAABvE/HDVIyDGZw-Q/s1600/hotel_paradiso.jpg

Little Annie Fanny All-Stars

http://images.moviepostershop.com/first-family-movie-poster-1980-1020232871.jpg

Great thread! I used to hate these, but now that there's more historical distance I love them. Although I do have some nostalgia for the context that I used to seem them in, as the covers of 15 year old VHS tapes in tiny rural gas station video rental sections.

Jesus, Mad Magazine all up in this thread.

My contrib:

http://www.impawards.com/2009/posters/black_dynamite_ver3.jpg

Not quite caricature, I guess.

http://www.reggiesworld.com/media/bakery/images/item308/dolemite-poster.jpg

http://ygrael.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/human_tornado_poster_01.jpg

http://dailygrindhouse.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/BLACK-SAMURAI.jpg

I forgot the Agent for DRAGON part

http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/120/1200180/6invasion_of_bee_girls_1318804567.jpg

Anybody else notice that the Choose Your Own Adventure books kept up this motif long after movie posters had discarded it?

1968, but noteworthy:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YyFxKgm8npo/T6976b2X5jI/AAAAAAAABMc/ZeWGrhzS9AA/s1600/theparty_poster.jpg

Broken image link on my end!

That's OK, I was trying to post Hundreds of Beavers without having scrolled up an inch to see it was already posted.

everywhere i go i keep running into hundreds of beavers

i don't even live in beaverton anymore!

i do admittedly still live in the pnw, serves me right