Movie posters seem to have no real artistic punch anymore. No more beautiful dames and bright yellow type like noir posters from the 50′s, wild multi-color collages from the 60′s or crazy psych art from the 70′s. Sure, you’ll see the odd poster here and there that amazes you, but for the most part it’s become the star’s big old head smack in the middle of the poster with the co-stars arranged in a V behind him/her, along with some truly disappointing type choices. Thank the good lord for the fine people at Mondo. Employing some of the finest illustrators in the world, Mondo creates beautiful poster art, hand silk-screened in limited runs. They are next to impossible to get because they usually produce no more than 500 of each piece, and when it’s sold out, it’s sold out. The trouble is is that they’re not real movie posters, they’re art hidden in a traditional movie poster format. Now if only the studios would hire these guys to do actual posters and we could stop looking at Tom Cruise’s big fat mug every time we went to the multi-plexes.
Jaws
Hitchcock’s Psycho
Taxi Driver
This Island Earth
Drive
The Bride of Frankenstein
Aliens
The Goonies
Halloween
Night of the Hunter
Iron Giant
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Django Unchained
Dracula
Maniac – 2012
Maniac 1980
Sucker Punch
My Neighbor Totoro – Ghibli Studios
