Well, that more or less finishes this thread, doesn't it?
Not at all.. look at the first images posted in this thread, as well as the Russian FRIGHT NIGHT poster. These posters used actual imagery previously used on other films' posters.
Posters with similar design layouts or characters posing in a like fashion on different posters are not the same thing. There will forever be posters that look similar.. it is just bound to happen.
Here again was the kind of duplicate imagery I was meaning.. it is pretty straight forward- the
same Karloff likeness was used for 2 different movies: