Quirky Film Posters

OVER 200 MOVIE POSTERS

UNUSUAL, OBSCURE, OR MADE FOR NON-U.S. MARKETS

Suspiria (2018/1977)

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Percy Adlon’s Sugarbaby (1985), Robert Altman’s Nashville (1975)

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The Leech Woman (1960) dir. Edward Dein

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William Castle’s The Tingler (1958)

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Japanese poster for Poltergeist (1982) and Sisters (1972) and US poster for Liquid Sky (1982)

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John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979)

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Posters for The Amazing Mr. No Legs (1979) starring Ted Vollrath

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Movie posters for two Mike Leigh classics: High Hopes (1988) and Life Is Sweet (1990)

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Peter Medak’s Negatives (1968)

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HITCHCOCK POSTERS: Polish and US posters for The Birds (1963); US posters for Shadow of a Doubt (1943); Danish poster for Dial M for Murder (1954); UK poster for Frenzy (1972) and box art and reel for Castle Films complete condensed version of Hitchcock’s Frenzy; Japanese and US posters for Family Plot (1976); Polish posters for Hitchcock’s Strangers on a Train (1951) and Vertigo (1958) and Rear Window (1954); US poster for The Trouble with Harry (1955); US poster for Strangers on a Train (1951)

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Box art and reel for Castle Films complete condensed (200ft) version of Hitchcock's Frenzy
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Very Annie Mary (2001) and Sid & Nancy (1986)

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 US, UK, and German VHS Covers for movies from the 1970s-1980s

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The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)

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I Don’t Want to Be Born a/k/a Sharon’s Baby (1975), a talky UK rip-off of It’s Alive (1974).

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French poster for Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971); German poster for The Tin Drum (1979)

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1957 re-release Italian poster for The Gold Rush (1925)

1957 re-release Italian 2-fogli for THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin, USA, 1925)

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US and Japanese posters for Barbarella (1968)

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Ode to Billy Joe (1976) and Motel Hell (1980)

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Mary Poppins (1968)

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Soundtrack covers for Experiment in Terror (1962) and The Pawnbroker (1964)

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Japanese posters for She’s Gotta Have It (1986) and Annie Hall (1977)

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Unwed Mother (1958); Polish poster for The Omen (1976)

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The Meateater (1979); Blondie (1938); Sybil (1976)

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US poster for Gnome-Mobile (1967) and Danish poster for The Trouble with Angels (1966)

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Claudine (1974)
Not of This Earth (1957)

Spanish poster for Dark Victory (1939); Japanese poster for Frankenhooker (1990)

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Soundtrack covers forTony (2009) and The Virgin Suicides (1999)

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Curtis Harrington’s What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971)

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)

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The Honeymoon Killers (1969);  Silk Husbands and Calico Wives (1920)

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Robert Wise’s I Want to Live! (1958)

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Unauthorized posters from Ghana: Cujo, Poltergeist 2, Ghoulies, Anaconda 3, Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Species 3

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Robert Altman’s Brewster McCloud (1970); The Ghost & Mr. Chicken (1966)

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Love Before Breakfast (1936)

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Yugoslavian posters for Deliverance (1972) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)

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Japanese poster for The Sterile Cuckoo (1969); two posters for The Exorcist (1973)

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French and US posters for The Legend of Hell House (1973)

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L-Shaped Room (1962); Five on the Black Hand Side (1973);

Dracula’s Daughter (1936); Life with Father (1947)

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German poster for A Taste of Honey (1961); UK poster for The Leather Boys (1964)

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Mildred Pierce (1945); The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970)

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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973); Cooley High (1975)

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The Long, Long Trailer (1953)

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Spanish poster for 9 to 5 (1980); Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)

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The Other (1972)

Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)-

Hi, Mom! (1970); Min & Bill (1930)

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Polish posters for Alien (1979) and Aliens (1986)

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Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov

Spanish poster for Carrie (1976); Polish poster for The Shining (1980)

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14 Hours (1951)

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Paper Moon (1973)

Tourist Trap (1979); Sinful Dwarf (1973)

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Design for Living (1933)

Homebodies (1974)

The Curse of the Cat People (1944)

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US poster for Compulsion (1959); Italian poster for Hitchcock’s Rope (1948)

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Hal Hartley’s Trust (1991)

Passport to Pimlico (1949)

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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968); Polish poster for Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

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Staircase (1969)

Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) and Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)

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James Ivory’s Savages (1972)

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Paris Is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

The Patsy (1928)

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Todd Solondz’s Palindromes (2004) and Mike White’s Year of the Dog (2006)

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French/Dutch poster for Village of the Damned (1960)-

 Excision (2012); Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971)

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It! (1967); So Fine (1981)

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Lobby card for The Red House (1947)-

Vampyros Lesbos (1971)

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Ruby (1977) and The Queen (1968)

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Two daringly dark Hayley Mills films:

Bryan Forbes’ Whistle Down the Wind (1961) and Roy Boulting’s Twisted Nerve (1968)

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Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls (1962)-

Terry Zwigoff’s Louie Bluie (1985); Maiden in Uniform (1931)

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The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972-

James Mason in Bigger Than Life (1956)

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Sick (1997); The Devil and Daniel Johnston (2005)

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Italian and French posters for Harold and Maude (1971)

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By Polish poster-artist Wieslaw Walkuski: Man of Flowers (1983), Missing (1982), and The Elephant Man (1980)

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Spanish poster for Crucible of Horror (1971)-

I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) and Shadey (1985)

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Lobby card for William Castle’s Bug (1975)-

Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)

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Murder in Harlem (1935)

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Japanese Poster for Jaws 2 (1978)

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William Castle’s 13 Ghosts (1960) and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (1960)

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VHS cover for Rabid Grannies (1988)

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US and French posters for John Waters’ Polyester (1981) –

Polish and Spanish posters for Robert Altman’s Three Women (1977)

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Posters and VHS covers for various UFO Documentaries from the 1970s

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Bigfoot documentaries from the mid-1970s

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O. Henry’s Full House (1952)

US and Polish posters; French lobby cards for Mandingo (1975), deemed the most racist movie ever made

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Panic in Needle Park (1971)

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Blue Sunshine (1978)

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Buio Omega a/k/a Beyond the Darkness (1979), released by Thriller Video as Buried Alive

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