Like a good trailer, sometimes the luridly cheesy (or cheesily lurid) B movie poster promises thrills and chills that are strikingly absent in the movie itself.
Can a great poster redeem a bad movie? Doubtful, but who cares? Enjoy them for what they are -- an art form unto themselves. For this year's Halloween post, I've picked some outstanding (and downright bizarre) examples representing the good, the bad and the ugly of horror and sci-fi cinema.(Click on the caption to see a high resolution version on the Wrong Side of the Art! website. A word of caution: the site also features some R-rated exploitation content, so browse at your own risk.)
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| You can't tell the ghosts without a scorecard! |
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| Jazz hands! |
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| Man's best friend, but not a puppet person's. |
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| Warning! There's no Chinese dragon with a million eyes in this movie! |
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| The Headless Horseman of... oh wait, that's another movie! |
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| This is your brain on B sci-fi movies! |
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| Can you believe this man was married to Shirley Temple? |
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| Too much information. It's just a poster, damn it! |
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| Edward Gorey (or someone very much like him) does "Dead of Night." |
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| In his eyes was muurrrderrrr!!!! |
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| Don't look her in the eyes! Uh-oh... |
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| Oh crap, there are those eyes again! |
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| Trapped in the maze of Hill House! |
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| Don't be knocking at this house on Halloween! |
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| Eye, eye, Vampiri! |
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| Some people obviously can't handle 3D. |
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| Journey to the Planet of the BEMs (Bug Eyed Monsters) |
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| Even a movie with Hugh Grant in it can't spoil a great poster. |
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| Okay, so I like dinosaurs. You got a problem with that? |
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| The Ray (Milland) with the X-ray eyes. |
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| Don't look too long into this face -- there lies madness! |
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| Big monster on campus. |
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| It's hard to wreak vengeance on tomb defilers on an empty stomach. |
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| "What? My coupons have all expired?!" |
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| Oh what a web we weave, when we practice to deceive (and drink blood)... |
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| "Does this snake skin make me look fat?" |
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| Okay, ants don't have eyes like that, not even giant ones... |
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| "That blowed up good... real good!" |
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| Tomb of the Evil Cat Lady |
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| You better wake up before you hit the ground! |
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| Don't take a trip on a starship built by the lowest bidder. |
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| The first B movie poster designed by a Cubist painter (or so it seems)... |
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