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Always seemed like an oddly overlooked film. DeSica directed, Loren is very effective and won an Oscar, Belmondo solid in a small role. Terrific film of what war evils are really like. Yet I almost never hear it mentioned. The title may appear simplistic, but it's a film about how the daughter becomes a woman.
Worth tracking down.

So we’re just calling everything the worst cover now? If nothing else, it fits the movie perfectly

I always like a design that is left-aligned rather than centered like common coverart

Is he about to break that old lady’s neck like he’s Schwarzenegger in True Lies?

Maybe it's already been posted, but this one has always made me crazy. Awkwardly shoving Casper Van Dien's 15 fleeting minutes of fame into the empty space between the girls, standing on a chair in the middle of the dancefloor apparently.

EDIT: Wait a second....that is Matt Keeslar, not Casper Van Dien...did Matt Keelar even have a 15 fleeting minutes of fame? Not to my knowledge...what the heck? Why is he shoehorned into the theatrical poster? I need the lore.

Zot! wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 4:46 pm did Matt Keelar even have a 15 fleeting minutes of fame?

I remember him from Gregg Araki's Splendor and Scream 3. One of a huge wave of blandly attractive actors in their 20s the late '90s and early '00s foisted on us. I thought he was in Legally Blonde too, but that was Matthew Davis. Casper van Dien is not even in The Last Days of Disco. He was too busy being "Crewcut Hunk" in Casper Meets Wendy.

I hope Keeslar's doing well in his new career as an instructor of urology!

Matt wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 10:29 pmblandly attractive

My partner is a fan of the series Middleman, and I have to disagree with this statement based on the episode where he appears as some kind of

Spoiler

shirtless biker pirate

, or something.

You say he's a urology instructor? Hmmm.....I wonder if he'd wear the eye patch if asked. Still what business does he have being the ghost of discos past? In my twisted imagination Polygram Video decided that the cover looked too sapphic, and this was their attempt to turn it into a proper rom-com? The mind boggles.

Can only imagine how many prompts led to... this.

I'm liking all of these but the retro vibe of the third one catches the spirit of this trash classic the best.

I don't know the film but I have no idea what that second cover is showing. Some kind of X-ray I presume, but that image alone would in no way entice me to want to check out the film. Quite the opposite really.

It’s a neck growth housing a 400 year old malevolent Indian spirit, that much is obvious