Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoGhanaian movie poster for David Lynch's The Elephant Manlemmy.worldimagemessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up154arrow-down12
arrow-up152arrow-down1imageGhanaian movie poster for David Lynch's The Elephant Manlemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Movies@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·14 days agoI love these. During Ghana’s series of military govermments through the 70s and 80s, import laws made it functonally impossible to get printing presses into the country. Ghanaian cinemas, undeterred, did all their posters by hand instead https://www.dannydutch.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good
minus-squaremassive_bereavement@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoReminds me of Polish posters: https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-insane-history-of-polish-movie-posters
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·14 days agoIt’s fascinating how many of these use obscured or distorted faces as a main element
minus-squareShepherdPie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 days agoIt is very strange and consistent to the point that there had to be a reason why. Perhaps they were all done by the same artist, and that was their thing.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 days agoMy all-time favorite one is an entire distorted human:
minus-squareShepherdPie@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-214 days ago Absolutely beautiful. A story of a spy and his lover suffering from a fish allergy induced angioedema and their race against time to find the nearest doctor.
I love these. During Ghana’s series of military govermments through the 70s and 80s, import laws made it functonally impossible to get printing presses into the country. Ghanaian cinemas, undeterred, did all their posters by hand instead https://www.dannydutch.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good
Reminds me of Polish posters: https://sabukaru.online/articles/the-insane-history-of-polish-movie-posters
It’s fascinating how many of these use obscured or distorted faces as a main element
It is very strange and consistent to the point that there had to be a reason why. Perhaps they were all done by the same artist, and that was their thing.
My all-time favorite one is an entire distorted human:
Absolutely beautiful.
A story of a spy and his lover suffering from a fish allergy induced angioedema and their race against time to find the nearest doctor.