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That kid on We Need a Vacation looks eerily like Barbara Streisand on that old Up the Sandbox cover. Both are terrifying.

I've never much liked Carlotta's covers, but these seem particularly horrid.

Those look like unfinished "TV Funhouse" stills.

I actually saw a better cover for this film which had a stupid tagline
("They want to put a baby in you").

Searching for that, I found this:

I've always thought that the 'hey, pretend you're running' style of action shot gets a free pass.




There's always room for more low-rent Freidkin. It looks like Shaq is birthing the reviews.

Kinsayder wrote:I've never much liked Carlotta's covers, but these seem particularly horrid.

I've got those discs and, being completely impartial, I must impart that 1) these covers have been modified before release, giving the faces a much more faithful look, and 2) the aforementioned covers are slipcases hiding the original poster art underneath!

Bottom line : These covers do not belong in this thread. Carlotta should sue Amazon for showing those works-in-progress 3 years after they've been corrected...

I guess these must be the final versions.



Hmm...

Thank god they fixed Ann Sheridan's height, that was really bothering me.

Boyer no longer looks like Scooby-Doo Don Knotts.

Clearly they're skewing these titles towards players of the Emo Game

souvenir wrote:Boyer no longer looks like Scooby-Doo Don Knotts.

But he's pretty Alec Baldwinish now.

I can't find any pics of it online, but Paramount has this horrendous new cover on their American Gigolo DVD. In place of the old one (which I thought looked kinda nice) the new cover is this retarded pic of a shirtless Richard Gere giving a "fuck me" look as only Richard Gere could. It's the worst attempt at sex appeal I've seen in many a moon.

I wanted to buy the DVD so I bit the bullet and got the ugly new cover but I may have to wrap it in a brown paper bag, lest someone visiting the house see it and think I have some obscure Gere porno.

CSM126 wrote:In place of the old one (which I thought looked kinda nice)

Another casualty of Hollywood's smoking paranoia, I presume.

Before one goes off to war, it's important to be prepared.
A nice blow-dry should do the trick.

The cover I saw in the shop had some weird greens on her face. The color correction makes it an okay cover, I guess.


(actually I thought the title was "Step Mom Teresa, not "Stop")

SoyCuba wrote:

This is what I was referring to (went ahead and scanned it)

(EDIT) link to Hungarian version of cover removed.
In answer to the next post down: I haven't seen this one. I'm a big fan of the actress Eszter Onodi (appears in Valami Amerikai, and even a brief--only 'star' appearance in Hukkle) but this looks like a Hungarian Meg Ryan film. But of course that's judging by the cover!

skuhn8 wrote:Not much worse than the Hungarian original

But is the film as wacky and safely charming as it appears?

Btw, you need to link to a bigger pic, as that one is 1 x 1 pixels.

This one had me laughing out loud in the store.
It runs into the problem of trying to illustrate a completely dopey premise:

You're on a roll, Lemmy!

Not only are the kids in Red Dawn heading off to war with carefully blow-dried hair. They're actually guerrilla fighters! Just think how much more successful T.E. Lawrence would have been if he'd only had a style consultant....

And I particularly love the critic's quote for Ice Spiders: I can just picture a potential buyer thinking to himself, "Well, I did love both Eight Legged Freaks and Hot Dog the Movie...."

There could not possibly be a better cover than that for a movie called Ice Spiders, it does not belong in this thread.

domino harvey wrote:There could not possibly be a better cover than that for a movie called Ice Spiders, it does not belong in this thread.

Well, we don't have a dedicated thread for worst plot concepts, worst taglines, or idiotic quotes.
And do we have a place for best covers?
Because these are two of the sexiest covers I've seen:




Well, that's the poster, but the Dvd cover is essentially the same.
Yeah, I suppose they don't belong here either.

Lemmy Caution wrote:And do we have a place for best covers?

Yes.

Because these are two of the sexiest covers I've seen

Lemmy Caution wrote:Well, we don't have a dedicated thread for worst plot concepts, worst taglines, or idiotic quotes.
And do we have a place for best covers?
Because these are two of the sexiest covers I've seen:


Well, that's the poster, but the Dvd cover is essentially the same.
Yeah, I suppose they don't belong here either.

In Quebec, posters for Cashback had the actress completely topless. Say what you will about this province's backward politics, but at least the puritans stay well out of the way.