Bizzare hand drawn movie posters from Africa
Temporary cinemas became common in Ghana in the 80s because of the video cassette technology. When “mobile cinema” operators traveled from town to town creating these temporary cinemas, they needed movie posters in order to promote the movies. They hired artists were given totally freedom to paint the posters as they wanted, some of them didn’t even watch the movies, and that is why the result was interesting and bizarre movie posters, mostly of horror and trash action movies.
A similar thing happened in Russia where these hand drawn movie posters were made. If you want to see more cool stuff sign up for free at TheToiletPaper.
I like the style.
Dec 22, 2009great poster, I really like the detail
Dec 30, 2009looks early street fighter
Jan 8, 2010The style reminds me a little of Al Jaffee from Mad.
Jan 8, 2010Those are great and better than most of the real posters I imagine.
Jan 9, 2010i like the 'Jason Goes To Hell' movie poster, the mask looks really authentic and scary =))
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