Eight Bizarre 80's Film Posters From Ghana How do the Ghanaian versions compare to the Hollywood originals?
Back in the dim, distant depths of the 1980s (younger ones can look it up on Wikipedia), VHS technology took Ghana in West Africa by storm. Mobile cinema operators would travel the country hooking TVs and VCRs up to portable generators to create impromptu screenings. They needed art to promote the showings and turned to local painters. Who had usually not seen the films. Or were encouraged to add their own "flourishes". The results just about speak for themselves… With thanks to the Ephemera Assemblyman blog. WORDS JAMES WHITE
Yes, it has a dog. Just not this dog who, honestly looks like he's wandered in from Madam Rabies' House Of Wonky Hounds. Cujo wasn't actually a Springer Spaniel, he was a St. Bernard and we're not quite sure there was a… let's call that a Geisha… in the film. Nice blood detail, though.
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Eaten Alive
Posted on Tuesday February 2, 2010, 08:35 by superkennio
I don't think the Ghanian poster is referring to the Tobe Hooper film but rather Mangiati vivi! the 1980
Umberto Lenzi film which would make more sense. Read More
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Posted on Tuesday February 2, 2010, 01:04 by Kim_Overgaard
T2. Yeah, I was thinking that. Awesome posters, like the Polish ones. Original and completely misleading. Read More
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All film posters should be like this from now on.
Posted on Friday January 29, 2010, 11:05 by captainamazing
Posted on Thursday January 28, 2010, 15:06 by domduck
These are great! But I would suggest that the Terminator poster is for Terminator 2 (There appears to be a '2' snaking about behind the 'r') and not it's predecessor. Which would suggest, then, that the artist hadn't seen it, but had the first, and expected more of the same.
And 'Poltergeist 2' looks like the artwork for the world's most vomitous/vortex bothering fairground attraction. Read More
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Posted on Thursday January 28, 2010, 13:40 by bigdave3000
