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post #1 of 36
10/2/07 at 1:23am
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I finally picked up this book this week, after seeing it in a bookstore in either Savannah or Manhattan, and always wishing I could look at it again.

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In the 1980s a group of entrepreneurs in Ghana created small-scale, mobile film distribution empires, hitting the road with videocassettes, television monitors, portable gas-powered generators and rolled-up, hand-painted, artist-signed canvas posters. This new medium created the first opportunity for some of the best young painters in Ghana to express themselves on a public scale. In the frequent absence of an original image upon which to base the work they had been commissioned to produce, the artists in this book inevitably created cinematic paintings that were largely interpretive and imagination-driven.
The results are like fever dream versions of the movies they're advertising, and loads of fun on their own.





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post #2 of 36
10/2/07 at 1:34am
More people would have seen Sleepwalkers if that had been the real poster.
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post #3 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:01am
I want to see more!!!!
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post #4 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:03am
Beautiful. I'll have to check that book out. I especially like "Cujo: The Killer Dog". So friendly looking.
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post #5 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:07am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Beautiful. I'll have to check that book out. I especially like "Cujo: The Killer Dog".
It makes me think of Clifford: The Big Red Dog... if it was published in hell.
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post #6 of 36
10/2/07 at 6:25am
moar
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post #7 of 36
10/2/07 at 8:16am
Well that just makes Tarzan look like a jerk, showing off in front of his buddies.
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post #8 of 36
10/2/07 at 11:13am
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Originally Posted by Patrick Ripoll
Beautiful. I'll have to check that book out. I especially like "Cujo: The Killer Dog". So friendly looking.
I want to ask Dee Wallace what she thinks of her representation on that poster.
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post #9 of 36
10/2/07 at 11:21am
The Cujo one creeps me out. And in a completely non ironic way I might add.
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post #10 of 36
10/2/07 at 11:45am
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post #11 of 36
10/2/07 at 11:55am
The starangest thing about that awesome Sleepwalkers poster is that she has a cat head for a foot! These are spectacular.
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post #12 of 36
10/2/07 at 12:19pm
Amazing.

Hundra!
I also like that the "Raiders of the Lost Arc" poster has a Last Crusade representation of Indy on it, meaning it was probably painted in the 90's.

I'm getting this book someday.
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post #13 of 36
10/2/07 at 12:20pm
Man, that poster for "Raiders of the Lost Arc" is brilliant! It's got everything- Harrison Ford and Locke from 'Lost' with a golden god in a Conan's "If they mated" pose, and a giant creepy mummified head with the main character from 'Pitfall!' swinging from his ear!
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post #14 of 36
10/2/07 at 2:50pm
Those proportions on Van Damme in the Kickboxer poster would make Rob Liefeld proud.

Phil, thanks for posting these!
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post #15 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:03pm
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Originally Posted by C.Swicegood
Those proportions on Van Damme in the Kickboxer poster would make Rob Liefeld proud.

Phil, thanks for posting these!
I thought Street Fighter for a second.
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post #16 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:17pm
Arnold Vasloo was in Raiders of the Lost Ark?
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post #17 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:22pm
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Originally Posted by BobClark
The starangest thing about that awesome Sleepwalkers poster is that she has a cat head for a foot! These are spectacular.
Ha! Didn't notice that the 1st time I looked at it.
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post #18 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:27pm
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I like the modest promise of Desperado, as well as the misogynist tagline for Sleepwalkers.
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post #19 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:29pm
What i want to know is who is Princess Osu and what role did she play in Return Of Swamp Thing?
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post #20 of 36
10/2/07 at 3:30pm
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Originally Posted by Phil!
I like the modest promise of Desperado, as well as the misogynist tagline for Sleepwalkers.
Yeah, and it's so weird to see review snippets ("Explosively Entertaining") all hand-lettered.
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post #21 of 36
10/2/07 at 6:28pm
These are cool, kinda like those Polish movie posters.
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post #22 of 36
10/3/07 at 7:21am
I think that Barb Wire poster seriously misunderstands the film's selling point.
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post #23 of 36
10/3/07 at 11:26am
I think the Return of Swamp Thing poster is really a Humanoids From the Deep poster in disguise.
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post #24 of 36
10/3/07 at 12:03pm
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Originally Posted by Phil!
It looks like Van Damme is starring in a new version of Fist of the North Star.
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post #25 of 36
10/3/07 at 1:58pm
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Originally Posted by Junior
I think that Barb Wire poster seriously misunderstands the film's selling point.
The tits are too small?
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post #26 of 36
10/4/07 at 12:52pm
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Originally Posted by Randolph Carter
The tits are too small?
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Originally Posted by Phil!


Attractive (yes, I realize some opinions vary) woman wearing a skin-tight & REVEALING outfit throughout the flick. The painted poster looks like she's COVERED in a mechanic's jumpsuit made from black pornstar's baggy scrotum skin. And the cleavage (artificial as it may be) is sorely missed.
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post #27 of 36
10/4/07 at 12:56pm
Are those her areolas I see? I assume that's a promotional photo. How did that make it past the watchdogs?
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post #28 of 36
10/10/07 at 12:21pm
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Some local fare in this batch:







These Ghanaians are marketing wizards. I want to see all of these.
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post #29 of 36
10/10/07 at 12:36pm
Holy shit, yes. I love what's implied that happens when your bible gets stolen.
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post #30 of 36
10/10/07 at 12:55pm
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And back to more familiar territory:







This one's almost Polish:

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post #31 of 36
10/10/07 at 1:11pm
NO, Jennifer Lopez, NOOOOOOO!!!
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post #32 of 36
10/10/07 at 3:46pm
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Originally Posted by Phil!
So Arnold and Danny were actually the half-canine sons of a woman fucked by a German Shepard.

Explains so, so much.
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post #33 of 36
6/29/08 at 1:58am
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Holy shit, yes. I love what's implied that happens when your bible gets stolen.
You have no idea.
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post #34 of 36
6/29/08 at 3:04am
SPIDERS looks awesomely terrifying.
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post #35 of 36
9/15/09 at 5:09pm
More of this awesomeness can be seen HERE:
http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/...rom-ghana.html

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post #36 of 36
12/13/10 at 1:20am
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A bunch of these original posters are now for sale on Ebay. And they're basically oil paintings. A little pricey, but I'm getting twitchy.
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