A Grayspace Poster Gallery. Polish Movie Posters Mega Gallery. The other day, I stumbled upon this German poster for The Pacifier ("DER BABYNATOR"), which inspired me to create a slideshow about weird, awesome, and awesomely weird foreign movie posters.
In researching, I quickly realized that by far all of the best movie posters come from Poland. Sounds strange, but it's true. All this time, my fierce adherence to xenophobic stereotypes had led me to imagine Poland as a grey land of soot-covered dullards, when in reality, it's a grey land of soot-covered dullards with super awesome movie posters (stapled to the walls of crumbling factories and taped to the screen doors of submarines, I imagine).
Sorry, still working on the xenophobia thing. I'm not naive enough to pretend I'm the first person to discover this phenomenon (jeez, I'm not Polish), and in fact, SomethingAwful did an awesome fake Polish movie poster Photoshop contest a while back which is also worth your time. Airplane II Benji: The Hunted Alien That's right, Alien. Apocalypse Now Cabaret. Original Polish Posters for American Movies: Polish Posters Shop. The World's Greatest Pop Culture Site. While most movie posters in the United States pretty much showcase the standard corporate style imagery to hawk the film, the fine folks in Poland have a brilliant dramatic license when marketing Hollywood's finest in their country, resulting in some of the most brilliantly surreal and amazing pieces of movie artwork ever created.
Some of them are obvious, some seem to be crazy nonsequiters that have nothing to do with the original picture, while others seem to change the focus of the movie altogether. Weekend At Bernies now looks more like a horror film, and Polish poster for The Terror of Mechagodzilla looks as if it was animated by the folks that made Yellow Submarine. Enjoy this sampling of their wares, and then visit POLISHPOSTER.com to see more, and maybe even buy one. They are all originals with no reproductions, so be prepared to empty out your polish piggybank. -Robert Berry rberry@retrocrush.com.
50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland. When I’m not geeking out over design you can probably find me geeking out over film.
I spent a good 7 years of my life working behind the counters of various video stores across Western Canada and consider myself an avid film nerd. So it’s not surprisingly that my jaw nearly hit the floor when a coworker introduced me to the wonderful world of Polish film posters a couple of years ago. These conceptual masterpieces put the original American posters to shame every time; they are truly beautiful works of art. Trimming this list down to a mere 50 posters that I absolutely love was surprisingly difficult. Apocalypse Now Rosemary’s Baby Tootsie Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back Return Of The Pink Panther Raging Bull The Last Detail Gandhi The Fly Raiders Of The Lost Ark Harry And The Hendersons The Getaway Crocodile Dundee 2 Being There Old Yeller Terms Of Endearment War Games The China Syndrome Weekend At Bernie’s Gremlins Eyes Wide Shut The Shaggy Dog Under The Volcano The Late Show Short Circuit 2 Missing Flipper.