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That poster rules

domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2026 1:32 am That poster rules

Indeed. I have no goddamn clue what these specialty labels are thinking of with their recent cover art choices. If you're spending $50 on a vintage movie, can't you get the original poster or at least something that evokes the style of posters of the movie's era?

Can artwork slap without ruling? Or does anything that slaps also rule? Where's Jon Wurster when we need him?

Monterey Jack wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2026 2:10 am can't you get the original poster or at least something that evokes the style of posters of the movie's era?

I mean, this release is going to have a cover sleeve for the disc case, alternative art on the reverse side, a two-sided slipcover, and a two-sided slipbox. I bet the poster art makes it in there somewhere!

swo17 wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2026 2:47 am

Monterey Jack wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2026 2:10 am can't you get the original poster or at least something that evokes the style of posters of the movie's era?

I mean, this release is going to have a cover sleeve for the disc case, alternative art on the reverse side, a two-sided slipcover, and a two-sided slipbox. I bet the poster art makes it in there somewhere!

I'm sure it will be, but why make the cover most people will see first that horrific? What on Earth about that image says "Buy me!" for anyone who isn't already familiar with the film?

Poor Lukas Haas couldn’t stop witnessing murders in the 80s

Looking at that slipcover, I can’t stop seeing Sissy Spacek in Carrie if she was covered in flour rather than pig’s blood.

Wow, tough crowd here.

Feego wrote: Thu Jul 02, 2026 7:09 am Looking at that slipcover, I can’t stop seeing Sissy Spacek in Carrie if she was covered in flour rather than pig’s blood.

It looks exactly like Katherine Helmond in what is the best known still from the film and let me guess why it's rendered in white.

I don't know the movie, so all I see is a garishly looking actress motionless in a blank stare, on a non-descript black blackground, so the movie could very well be exactly the kind of 3.5 on IMDB movies VS are releasing on a weekly basis.

I first saw Lady in White at the London Film Festival in 1988, and have been a fan ever since. I think it's a real charmer, and one of the better horror films of the '80s. Although it received great reviews at the time, unfortunately it was a box-office failure but it has since acquired a cult following. Combining a ghost story based on local folklore, a murder mystery, an autobiographical coming-of-age story, a courtroom drama with nods to Harper Lee and a Spielbergian sense of wonder, all set in the early '60s around Halloween, it is occasionally unwieldy yet always engaging. It's a shame that Frank LaLoggia's career stalled after the film's financial failure, as he showed great promise. Despite its small budget, this period piece looks like it had a budget ten times the size, with only a couple of dodgy blue-screen shots letting it down. The film is a real labour of love and in retrospect, it feels as though the director poured the ideas for about six different films into this one, just in case he never got the chance to make another but that's what makes the film unique. As Pauline Kael put it "LaLoggia puts on a good show".

Although Katherine Helmond appeared in most of the publicity material, her role in the film is actually a misdirect and Lukas Haas gets to show why he was one of the great child actors of the era.

Rather surprised that Warner Archive didn't do something nicer with the Letty Lynton cover. It's based on a poster for the French release, which makes Crawford look a bit like Annabella. There are some pretty attractive images for the film available, but this isn't one of them, imo. (Of course, many purchasers would be satisfied with a brown paper wrapper, after so many years of waiting for this title to be released.)

shout just keeps outdoing themselves with these terrible HK covers

If this is in fact a movie where a baby actually fires a gun that size, I’d say this cover conveys the appropriate tone

This looks as cartoonish as the original Hong Kong posters, just rendered like an actual cartoon.

AI slop alert

Because they used art that emphasizes the film is in Cinescope and yet, you guessed it, the DVD is pan and scan 1.33

Richard Burton is scanning the horizon for someone (?) with breasts big and durable enough to support his comically large head and chin.

dwk wrote: Fri Jul 17, 2026 4:06 pm AI slop alert

Well, the company is named Shameless...

Can we stop posting Shout steelbook covers? This is getting old.

I mean, their ugliness is quite consistent.

Which is why I think we can stop posting these now.

This AI monstrosity unambiguously belongs here and I don’t know that I’d see this art otherwise, so I don’t understand the complaint