Flying Squid to MoviesEnglish • 1 day agoGhanaian movie poster for David Lynch's The Elephant Manimagemessage-square10arrow-up154arrow-down12cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up152arrow-down1imageGhanaian movie poster for David Lynch's The Elephant ManFlying Squid to MoviesEnglish • 1 day agomessage-square10cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareSkualinkfedilink9•1 day agoI love these. During Ghana’s series of military govermments through the 70s and 80s, import laws made it functonally impossible to get printing presses into the country. Ghanaian cinemas, undeterred, did all their posters by hand instead https://www.dannydutch.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 day ago Absolutely beautiful. A story of a spy and his lover suffering from a fish allergy induced angioedema and their race against time to find the nearest doctor.
minus-squaremassive_bereavementlinkfedilink4•1 day agoReminds me of Polish posters: https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-insane-history-of-polish-movie-posters
minus-squareSkualinkfedilink4•1 day agoIt’s fascinating how many of these use obscured or distorted faces as a main element
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkEnglish2•22 hours agoMy all-time favorite one is an entire distorted human:
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 day agoIt is very strange and consistent to the point that there had to be a reason why. Perhaps they were all done by the same artist, and that was their thing.
I love these. During Ghana’s series of military govermments through the 70s and 80s, import laws made it functonally impossible to get printing presses into the country. Ghanaian cinemas, undeterred, did all their posters by hand instead https://www.dannydutch.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good
Absolutely beautiful.
A story of a spy and his lover suffering from a fish allergy induced angioedema and their race against time to find the nearest doctor.
Reminds me of Polish posters: https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-insane-history-of-polish-movie-posters
It’s fascinating how many of these use obscured or distorted faces as a main element
My all-time favorite one is an entire distorted human:
It is very strange and consistent to the point that there had to be a reason why. Perhaps they were all done by the same artist, and that was their thing.