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

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

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/69/MPW-34757

http://cdn.chud.com/6/6a/350x517px-6abdfbb8_cold-turkey-movie-poster-1971-1020228329.jpeg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QmmW1rm_QrQ/TmpVPsvgCLI/AAAAAAAAAag/AVoOAG-8E2c/s1600/Superdad.jpg

http://granadamovieposters.com/photos/ranchodeluxeOS.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DPYUVscSG9I/UZZ1LoGM7wI/AAAAAAAAVfA/LqtnTygzEFs/s1600/Rancho+Deluxe.jpg

http://jackdavisfoundation.org/gallery/movie-posters

dunno what the hell some of them are looking at here but whatever it is.. isn't there!

http://www.cedmagic.com/v-title-database/chor/california-suite-1.jpg

great thread!

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

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/85/Gumball_rally_movie_poster.jpg

http://www.sci-fimovieposters.co.uk/images/posters-s/S-0096_Soylent_Green_quad_movie_poster_l.jpg

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

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-super-cops-movie-poster-1974-1020232706.jpg

Wow, Soylent Green looks like a madcap comedy!

http://museumofuncutfunk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Amazing-Grace-1974.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/sleeper-movie-poster-1974-1010711763.jpg

For some reason, I was convinced Meatballs had one of these, but, apparently not. Also, man...lotta lotta movies I never heard of. The amazing thing about this art style (for the ones that are actually in the thread-specified style) is how, the more the poster screams wacky screwball hijinks flying every which way, the more you know the movie's going to be a sluggish, hokey affair with a lot of bland mugging in front of a stock-still camera in mildly offbeat locations, etc.

Not a movie poster, but in-genre:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Weird_Al_Yankovic_-_Weird_Al_Yankovic.jpg

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/fuckyeahmovieposters/1524938401/1/tumblr_lbkm7zMS1y1qzdgla

sorry for huge

http://www.impawards.com/1980/posters/happy_birthday_gemini.jpg

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1334628848.jpg

http://www.impawards.com/1981/posters/gods_must_be_crazy.jpg

ugh, are those not working?

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/106605.1020.A.jpg

http://www.movieposterdb.com/posters/06_10/1980/0081159/l_141055_0081159_96279668.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/Poster_sunday_lovers.jpg

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/midnight-madness-1980.jpg

http://chuckyg.com/lists/movies/posters/hollywood-knights-1980.jpg

http://www.moviegoods.com//Assets/product_images/1020/48580.1020.A.jpg

http://the1980movieproject.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/american_success_company.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/scavenger-hunt-movie-poster-1979-1020231488.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/summer-camp-movie-poster-1979-1020248614.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/more-american-graffiti-movie-poster-1979-1020193098.jpg

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-baltimore-bullet-movie-poster-1980-1020278161.jpg

^^^ I like how by this point nobody really seems to be moving all that fast, compared to It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World... there's been a real loss of madcap will and screwball faith.

http://images.moviepostershop.com/the-gods-must-be-crazy-movie-poster-1982-1020265381.jpg

And, now that I've spammed the thread to oblivion: Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/Seems_like_old_times_movie_poster.jpg

Whatever happened to this genre of poster? Had its potential been exhausted? Did audiences no longer respond? Did the kind of movie that supported this kind of poster fade away? Or did it just get too easy and cheap to Photoshop actual photos of people's heads to wacky sizes and call it a day?

Bingo. It's more profitable to do just one design on the cheap that will be the poster, dvd/bluray cover etc. What's really striking me about some many of these is how verbose they are re:pitch/loglines instead of rehashing critical quotes.

Anyway, back to regular programming...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/Hamburger_The_Motion_Picture_poster.jpg

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/73/MPW-36717.jpg