Author Topic: Fantastic Film Posters - What's Striking Your Fancy? (Read 512102 times)

paul waines · « **Reply #25 on:** January 05, 2011, 03:35:35 PM »

I hate to say this being it's quite new for me, and Stew is after one but, I wouldn't mind the Das Boot Quad also.

Dread_Pirate_Mel · « **Reply #26 on:** January 09, 2011, 06:02:36 PM »

Love Before Breakfast, sold for $48,000 in 2008, three times the estimate:

Dread_Pirate_Mel · « **Reply #27 on:** January 23, 2011, 10:57:47 PM »

Eyes Without A Face - very striking French 1P. The movie is quite disturbing, apparently. It "concerns a troubled physician (Pierre Brasseur) who is desperately trying to repair the ruined countenance of his beloved daughter (the amazing Alida Valli) who was wounded in a car crash. He resorts to kidnapping and murder, grafting the skin of other young women onto his daughters face, but the experiments continually fail."

Sold for $191 tonight on Heritage.

crowzilla · « **Reply #28 on:** January 23, 2011, 11:38:04 PM »

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on January 04, 2011, 09:25:58 PM

Godzilla Style B - never seen this style before:

Guess that means you don't have a copy of my book (where I first pictured it for US audiences seven years before Heritage auctioned it.

Harry Caul · « **Reply #29 on:** February 07, 2011, 11:26:23 AM »

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on February 06, 2011, 12:41:19 PM

Pretty cool half sheet for Not Of This Earth - this and the similar one sheet don't pop up for auction often:

Agreed... I actually own that HS. I like the layout better on this HS than on the 1-sheet... more of the screaming face and the monster isn't so cramped.

agentprovocateur · « **Reply #30 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:06:09 AM »

Thought I'd add a few recent posters that have been striking my fancy... don't own any $:-\$ but I will one day

I think all three are great examples of contemporary poster design, weirdly two are very skull heavy.

Awsomeness... love it!

Not sure about the film or whether this was ever printed but think it's a great poster.

A bit simpler but a really strong image.

The hunt continues...

Ari · « **Reply #31 on:** February 12, 2011, 03:14:13 AM »

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on January 23, 2011, 10:57:47 PM

Eyes Without A Face - very striking French 1P. The movie is quite disturbing, apparently. It "concerns a troubled physician (Pierre Brasseur) who is desperately trying to repair the ruined countenance of his beloved daughter (the amazing Alida Valli) who was wounded in a car crash. He resorts to kidnapping and murder, grafting the skin of other young women onto his daughters face, but the experiments continually fail."

Sold for $191 tonight on Heritage.

GREAT film, and both sizes of the French posters are AWSOME, I have the Grande, used to also have the petite. Certainly in my personal top horror posters OF ALL TIME.

I often show the Grande to friends who don't "get" why I collect posters, that ALWAYS sways them, its an eye opener. (and the SMELL! - man I love those Frenchies - yes you too T).

Ari

erik1925 · « **Reply #32 on:** February 17, 2011, 05:35:43 PM »

Quote from: Ari on February 12, 2011, 03:14:13 AM

GREAT film, and both sizes of the French posters are AWSOME, I have the Grande, used to also have the petite. Certainly in my personal top horror posters OF ALL TIME.

I often show the Grande to friends who don't "get" why I collect posters, that ALWAYS sways them, its an eye opener. (and the SMELL! - man I love those Frenchies - yes you too T).

Ari

Ari,

This Thierry hates "French Grande" is also on my list, too. The deep vibrant colors just pop! (as well as those eyes)!!

Jeff

Dr Hackenbush · « **Reply #33 on:** February 17, 2011, 06:58:32 PM »

Love the BLACK DEATH

Tang Lung in Rome · « **Reply #34 on:** March 02, 2011, 05:55:35 AM »

Lundgren will always be He-Man to me....I also think he sounds like a nicer guy than Arnold in person , humble and easy going.

Thomsen · « **Reply #35 on:** March 02, 2011, 10:03:05 AM »

Quote from: Ari on February 12, 2011, 03:14:13 AM

GREAT film, and both sizes of the French posters are AWSOME, I have the Grande, used to also have the petite. Certainly in my personal top horror posters OF ALL TIME.

I often show the Grande to friends who don't "get" why I collect posters, that ALWAYS sways them, its an eye opener. (and the SMELL! - man I love those Frenchies - yes you too T).

That's funny because the grande of LES YEUX SANS VISAGE is actually what got me into collecting movie posters in the first place.

Four years back I was looking for something to hang on the walls of my new flat and by accident stumbled over a picture of this on eBay. I ended up buying both the grande and the petite from a French dealer and then I was hooked.

brude · « **Reply #36 on:** March 02, 2011, 12:20:49 PM »

I first saw Franju's LES YEUX SANS VISAGE many, many years ago as the American-dubbed HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS.
It totally changed my attitude about foreign films and the nature of horror.
I prefer the smaller poster, which features Claude Brasseur as the evil doctor, using chloroform to subdue his next victim. The expression on his face reflects a nonchalance that is quite disturbing.
Sam at Empire Posters recently sold one of these that I regrettably missed...

Harry Caul · « **Reply #37 on:** March 02, 2011, 09:33:42 PM »

Quote from: Dread_Pirate_Mel on March 02, 2011, 07:44:48 PM

This one is cool and eery....

I think T recently bought this poster...

erik1925 · « **Reply #38 on:** March 03, 2011, 02:09:37 PM »

The appearance and shape of the yellow and red eyes, from the 1957 OS of UNKNOWN TERROR are a real stopper, too:

Jeff

Thomsen · « **Reply #39 on:** March 04, 2011, 08:09:59 AM »

That's a perfect horror movie poster if I ever saw one, Jeff. It promises sheer terror. If I had been a kid at that time and seen that poster, I am pretty sure those eyes and claws would have given me bad dreams.

Instead I got bad dreams from the poster for Lucio Fulci's 'City of the Living Dead'. Those heads protruding from the earth really spoke to my imagination, even though it would be years before I was actually old enough to watch the film.

erik1925 · « **Reply #40 on:** March 04, 2011, 05:03:23 PM »

There's just something in the way the eyes are drawn (as well as the coloring) that looks VERY scary and creepy...

Jeff

paul waines · « **Reply #41 on:** March 04, 2011, 05:50:32 PM »

The Quad for comparison...

Harry Caul · « **Reply #42 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:02:08 PM »

Quote from: paul waines on March 04, 2011, 05:50:32 PM

The Quad for comparison...

Jesus Paul, how many quads do you have? All of them?

AdamCarterJones · « **Reply #43 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:17:25 PM »

Quote from: Harry Caul on March 04, 2011, 06:02:08 PM

Jesus Paul, how many quads do you have? All of them?

I am a true believer in that Paul has one of the best horror collections in the UK, if not THE best!

brude · « **Reply #44 on:** March 04, 2011, 09:23:40 PM »

Those UNKNOWN TERROR posters are so cool for such a stinker of a movie.
Wish I had one...

paul waines · « **Reply #45 on:** March 05, 2011, 02:53:11 AM »

Quote from: Harry Caul on March 04, 2011, 06:02:08 PM

Jesus Paul, how many quads do you have? All of them?

I wish I did Harry, Some day though.

Harry Caul · « **Reply #46 on:** March 05, 2011, 11:27:25 AM »

Quote from: paul waines on March 05, 2011, 02:53:11 AM

I wish I did Harry, Some day though.

So how many exactly are you missing? 8? 10?

Seriously, we could start a thread where we all list random movies and Paul has to post the quad within 24 hours. I'd bet you would have 95% of them!

You have a truly outstanding collection my man.

AdamCarterJones · « **Reply #47 on:** March 05, 2011, 11:43:42 AM »

Quote from: Harry Caul on March 05, 2011, 11:27:25 AM

Seriously, we could start a thread where we all list random movies and Paul has to post the quad within 24 hours. I'd bet you would have 95% of them!

Mate, I think you've just thought up a BRILLIANT thread proposal!

But change it so everyone can be involved (can't let Paul have all the credit lol) - something like this:
One member names a movie title; another member must post an image of it within 24 hours ...

What you think???

wonka · « **Reply #48 on:** March 05, 2011, 11:45:31 AM »

I love how no matter what the thread, Paul throws out the random yet relevant quad for the topic at hand.

Great stuff, Paul! You should post some galleries of your wares, sooner than later!

erik1925 · « **Reply #49 on:** March 05, 2011, 02:19:17 PM »

Quote from: paul waines on March 04, 2011, 05:50:32 PM

The Quad for comparison...

Looks awesome, Paul, but the eyes on the quad dont quite have that "fear factor," compared to the US material, IMO. The red/yellow combination has much to do with it, as well.

Jeff

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Author Topic: Fantastic Film Posters - What's Striking Your Fancy? (Read 512102 times)

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