The art of hand-painted movie posters, prevalent in Ghana during the 80s and 90s when dilapidated movie halls, desperate to attract customers, maximised the allure of films by adding scenes and characters from their own imagination.
These days, originals regularly change hands for thousands of dollars.
See what they did there?
A specially commissioned poster by Olly Moss for an anniversary screening of An American Werewolf in London at Fantastic Fest 2011.
Thanks Liam Phelan
Movie posters reinvented as pictograms by Viktor Hertz.
More at Viktor’s Flickr photostream.
He also sells them here.
Artist, Sean Hartter’s posters for alternate versions of modern movies, re-imagined as 1970s B-features – each one re-cast with Hartter’s own dream-team of actors.
Alternate Reality Movie Posters [9 large prints] (Buzzfeed)
More at Sean Hartter’s site.
