Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 7, 2012 Author Moderators Posted August 7, 2012 (edited) Bit of a change of tack here, but some of the Blaxploitation films had some sweet artwork too - Edited August 7, 2012 by Chest Rockwell
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 A full on classic, adorning student walls for over 30 years
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 7, 2012 Author Moderators Posted August 7, 2012 ...and to combine the two genres, let's have some Jim Kelly:
Paid Members Devon Malcolm Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 Those are great, Chest. Sort of Blaxploitation:-
Dirty Eddie Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 The Maniac Cop VHS was one that called out for me for months before I persuaded the Old Man to rent it out for me. Hell, even now I want to see it again, just by looking at that cover - even though I know it's quite shit now. Black Shampoo looks great, never even heard of that one! I remember the trailer for this more than the film, but this one always stuck with me... ..yeah, you make that car look scary!
Paid Members Surf Digby Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 I'm 100% with Chest on this, great topic. I love painted movie covers so much, I went through a period where I'd buy loads of videos from boot sales & stuff just for the covers, mostly films i'd never even heard of. I'll post some later, I'm on my phone at work at the moment. It's a lost art and so often they made the film look 10 times better than it was. Pretty much word for word my thoughts on the matter. I picked up a bag of ten VHS from a charity shop a couple of months ago, where about seven of them were picked purely on the strength of the cover art. Included in that ten were: It doesn't get any more "80s fratboy comedy" than this. Anyone who buys this knows exactly what they're getting.
Merzbow Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 (edited) Imagine seeing that in HMV these days. The Japanese artwork for Naked Lunch. Edited August 7, 2012 by Merzbow
Moderators Chest Rockwell Posted August 7, 2012 Author Moderators Posted August 7, 2012 I'm 100% with Chest on this, great topic. I love painted movie covers so much, I went through a period where I'd buy loads of videos from boot sales & stuff just for the covers, mostly films i'd never even heard of. I'll post some later, I'm on my phone at work at the moment. It's a lost art and so often they made the film look 10 times better than it was. Pretty much word for word my thoughts on the matter. I picked up a bag of ten VHS from a charity shop a couple of months ago, where about seven of them were picked purely on the strength of the cover art. Included in that ten were: Hah.. I knew it would be up your street; I was just waiting for your appearance in this thread as soon as I created it!
Paid Members chokeout Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 (edited) It was never used (and isn't as good as the final video/poster design but I love the original BTTF artwork, its far more 80s And the 10 year old me always wanted to see this Edited August 7, 2012 by chokeout
Dirty Eddie Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 What kid in 1990 wouldn't want to see this.... Unfortunately, "The weapons of the future are alive" for about 2 minutes at the end. Having endured 90 minutes of boring, shit acting, one robot stands up, that's pretty much it. A huge letdown, as it was the sequel to Robot Jox, which I enjoyed a lot as a kid. Crash and Burn bored me then and now.
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 Mother fucker! I was thinking about Crash & Burn and Robot Jox, it's true about there being minimal robot action too, I remember my friends & I watcing it in the school holidays only to be massively disappointed. Not good artwork but it made me remember
Dirty Eddie Posted August 7, 2012 Posted August 7, 2012 Bastard! I really want to go and watch Arena now, even though I know I shouldn't. I've already bookmarked The Lift thanks to this thread. I've always got too much stuff I want to watch!
Paid Members Dead Mike Posted August 7, 2012 Paid Members Posted August 7, 2012 Back on topic This cover looks like most of my exercise books aged 12, or vice versa.
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