[April Fools] Top 10 Best Film Posters in Cinema – Prints Charming

Posted on by Jim Cox

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Few things in life are as galvanizing as a truly remarkable film poster. Before one ever steps foot into the theater, before the flickering wizardry of the limelight takes hold of your very soul, it’s these posters—the bold splash of color, the cryptic imagery, the perfectly chosen tagline—that first whispers its enigmatic secrets to us. A truly superlative poster isn’t just advertising; it’s alchemy–distilling an entire cinematic experience into a single, tantalizing image. It dares us to dream, to obsess, to pin it to our bedroom walls like a sacred relic.

The best posters do more than sell a film to its audience; they become part of its very soul. They are artifacts. Icons. A good movie poster stays with you, etched into your brain as vividly as the film itself.

In this celebration of the greatest posters in cinema—those that transcend marketing and become something more–we take a look at the ones that haunt us, inspire us, and, above all, make us fall in love with movies before we’ve even seen a single frame.

Death Powder (1986)

In the near future, three conspirators capture a very special android named Guernica. The group brings her to a deserted warehouse and ties her to a cot, but the android secretes a reality-altering substance that causes the abductors to slowly lose their minds as they hallucinate unspeakable terrors and undergo unnatural transformations.

The delicate interplay of garish colors and aggressively jagged edges truly soothes the soul, evoking the timeless beauty of a print shop explosion. A man screaming into a gun, a masked figure who may or may not be judging my life choices, a gas-masked femme fatale, and a grotesque lump of what I can only assume is someone who had a terrible day. All of this, of course, is seamlessly brought together by a tasteful neon pink title slapped onto a seizure-inducing background.

I Told You Not To Call The Police (2010)

A bald man humiliates and violates nude women.

A film from a master of high-class artwork–Bill Zebub–the film’s artwork is certainly representative of the sophisticated subtlety the director is known for. The stylish font and perfect image ratio are certainly expressive of the superlative structure, writing, and acting to expect in such a masterpiece.

Lust in Hell: Edge of the World (2009)

After losing her parents in a tragic traffic accident, Koto develops the ability to communicate with the souls of the dead. Hospitalized for extreme trauma, Koto escapes to return to the place where her parents died. There she meets Shinji, whose lover also died in a car accident, and they begin a torrid and tempestuous affair.

The immense amount of intricate detail is truely astounding. The distinct, exhaustive font delicately embraces its dual representation of sex and death. The representation of Eros and Thanatos, the two forever locked in a fated relationship yet unable to ever express this shared devotion. Additionally, the background, where shadowy, barely visible figures whisper of untold pleasures and unspeakable torments–further compounds the binary themes.

Island of Death (1976)

A British couple on a break on a small Greek Island spreads terror beyond anything the Islanders could ever have imagined, only stopping every once in a while to shag anything that moves, be it man, woman or animal. But will they go unpunished, or will the inspector from London be able to put an end to their killing spree?

An artistic representation of eating a Pizzaroll before it’s cooled down, I can’t think of a more perfect way to sum up such a film.

Bayi Ajaib (1982)

A diamond mine in the village is the source of competition between Kosim and Dorman. Dorman believes that the soul of his ancestor, Alberto Dominique, who is buried there, will help him achieve his ambition.

A baby with the haunting wisdom of an ancient sage, sporting a forehead so expansive it deserves its own postcode and a Gandalf-esque beard, certainly evokes the sentiments of timeless elegance of 17th-century Baroque artwork.

Rabid Grannies (1988)

A large family gathers in the country side for their very elderly grannies’ birthday. One gift happens to be from their ostracized, black sheep nephew, and upon opening it, the two loveable grannies turn into rabid, flesh-eating monsters.

Evoking deep repressed memories of meeting older relatives at a young age, the artwork feels strangely familiar yet very uncomfortable at the recollection of these estranged meetings–and all the sights, sounds, and smells accompanying them.

Tokyo Cabbageman K (1980)

When K, a man, awakens and finds himself partially transformed into a cabbage, he must come to terms with his new state and how it puts him at the center of a media storm and unsolicited desires.

“Have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you’d you would you could you’d do you wi you wants you you could do so you you’d do you could you you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything?”

Redneck Zombies (1989)

A barrel of radioactive waste is lost out in the woods. Some demented rednecks find it and use it as part of their still. Everybody who drinks the liquor they produced turns into zombies.

Another representation of the big-budget blockbusters released from Troma Entertainment, Redneck Zombies–and its poster–are certainly in the upper echelon of cinematic history. While seeming relatively simple in design, the more attention the artwork is given, the more reveals itself to the viewer–similar to a magic eye image but with hillbilly undead.

Decisive Match! Girls Dorm Against Boys Dorm (1988)

A world-class marathon becomes the clashes between the women’s and a men’s dormitory. Armed with toy machineguns and pistols, the young people challenge each other.

Containing such comprehensive detail that one almost need not see the film, the broad scope of the poster leaves little to the imagination. The bold use of colour and elegant typography scream elegance and other relevant adjective.

Eat the Rich: The Cannibal Murders (2000)

An FBI Agent is sent into the underground sewers of the Nevada desert to arrest a family of cannibals who are preying on the rich. After the Agent disappears, his Boss takes over with the help of the local police. From there on the investigation heads deeper into unknown territory with lots of gore, flesh eating cannibals, zombies, and police corruption.

True mastery of the medium of Photoshop.

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