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Africans Used To Hand-Paint Movie Posters To Draw People Into Cinemas And They’re So Bizarre, They’re Wonderful (100 New Pics)
Art traditionally is valued by its technical brilliance, the difficulty of execution, the composition and fundamentals of aesthetics. But some art circumvents all of these principles and criteria, and they're no worse for it than the former. Sometimes, a "bad" piece art can be more valued than the "good" one, and not just for reasons of bad taste. Enter the African (mostly from Ghana) bootleg movie posters, which have, as a matter of fact, a very rich tradition. Why? Well, because of the perennially poor economy, Africans were forced to create the means for their entertainment. Of course, there were no fancy printers or presses, and even if there were, they wouldn't bother with something as silly as posters for bootleg movies. And so came a tradition of artists who created posters to create interest in these movies, even if they had to hand-paint them on flour bags. Though the means of printing became much more accessible, the tradition survives because of its extremely unique entertainment value.
here. As you can see, the skill of the artists advanced by leaps and bounds, but their own unique culture is still (thankfully) very clearly discernable.
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
This doesn't describe anything in the film but IT SHOULD. I'd pay to see Don Felix take on the five families
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Nice to see the toilet get the prominence it deserves, but I'm struggling to find a name for the fetish depicted in the lower right corner
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Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
Oh please, the Czechoslovak poster takes the cake here! GB1PosterF...0e-png.jpg 
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Not sure the artist actually saw the film, but it stands on its own merits
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Catherine Binder 4 years ago
So they saw this one before painting this. Kinda seems like cheating.
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Batman's most deadly adversary, the Man With Sausage Rolls in His Hair
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Tell you what, cats and kittens - if the artist could just keep his decapitation fetish under control he'd be pretty good
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Ozymandias73 4 years ago
With a side of The Butterfly Effect, Anaconda, Isle of Dr. Moreau....
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Lauren Caswell 4 years ago
I said I wanted frikkin sharks with 'laser' beams attached to their heads. These are dolphins 🤦♀️
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I haven't seen this and now I desperately want to, so the poster has served its purpose
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Get on the wrong side of Biker Dad and you'll end up drowning in porridge
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
You cannot deny the truth of that statement, although I doubt if it was in the script
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Mary Stoker's classic tale of two feline scientists and their quest to create a green vampire. "It's alive!" - Dr Tiddles
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I think the artist could have done a better job of rendering Freddy's iconic stripy sweater
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago (edited)
I don't remember Keir Dullea's teeth being that bad, but there again I don't remember Horny Monster either
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
The harrowing story of how a peace-loving community of leeches was brutally invaded and killed by a gang of humans
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Anjelica Huston bitterly regretted taking part in this film, stating that the dismemberment scenes were edited in without her knowledge or consent
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
When your large intestine struggles to escape from the crushing pressure of your abs
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Catherine Binder 4 years ago
I don't know what this movie is about, but somehow I now know even less what this movie is about.
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ChristopherRobin Marriott 10 months ago
Love the scene where Carey mulligan goes all "die hard" and shoots up the joint. Also is that a young Gene Hackman?!
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grey galah 4 years ago
"there's nothing like the smell of lighter fluid in the morning," thinks Pesci's character
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
I'd completely forgotten Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in this film
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Julia Atkinson 4 years ago
Suspicion Breeds Confidence - coming soon to a motivational poster near you
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Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
The talent to do these is awesome. Wish I could do half as well. The style is like the old school posters I've seen in reruns of Dragnet and the like. But the disjointedness of individual images on each poster...whewboy...odd yet funny.
Maja Lange 4 years ago
So much real talent, so much creativity, so much effort... so little sense of what humans look like. :)
Angelina 4 years ago
Looks like you have a greater sense of what humans look like, Maja :)
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Donnie Mc00 4 years ago
Its like everyone..and i mean everyone has a gun. and severed heads are very popular! these are certainly a niche art form. i love them!
𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 4 years ago (edited)
Not "EVERYONE had guns. MOST, yes, NOT "every."
Load More Replies... Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I get the feeling that the artist is giving the audience what they want, rather than what they’re actually going to get. They are undoubtedly brilliant though!
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
Does anyone know if you can get ahold of them from somewhere? I really want the GoT one!
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
I'm replying to my own post here. I found this site that has some of them. But he's from Ghana?! https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=u-print-poster&query=“Ghanaian%20film%20poster”&ref=search_box
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Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
I wanna watch the movies on these posters instead of the real ones!!! 😂
Bobbie Meyers 4 years ago
Wow, what the actual hell? Maybe watch the movie before making a poster!
𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 4 years ago
What do ALL of these (but TWO) posters have in common? Violence, VIOLENCE, and yes, you guessed it MORE V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E! (U_U)
Chucky Cheezburger 4 years ago
The talent to do these is awesome. Wish I could do half as well. The style is like the old school posters I've seen in reruns of Dragnet and the like. But the disjointedness of individual images on each poster...whewboy...odd yet funny.
Maja Lange 4 years ago
So much real talent, so much creativity, so much effort... so little sense of what humans look like. :)
Angelina 4 years ago
Looks like you have a greater sense of what humans look like, Maja :)
Load More Replies... Donnie Mc00 4 years ago
Its like everyone..and i mean everyone has a gun. and severed heads are very popular! these are certainly a niche art form. i love them!
𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 4 years ago (edited)
Not "EVERYONE had guns. MOST, yes, NOT "every."
Load More Replies... Hannah Edwards 4 years ago
I get the feeling that the artist is giving the audience what they want, rather than what they’re actually going to get. They are undoubtedly brilliant though!
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
Does anyone know if you can get ahold of them from somewhere? I really want the GoT one!
YoyoSthlm 4 years ago
I'm replying to my own post here. I found this site that has some of them. But he's from Ghana?! https://www.redbubble.com/shop/?iaCode=u-print-poster&query=“Ghanaian%20film%20poster”&ref=search_box
Load More Replies... Goth mouse (they/them) 4 years ago
I wanna watch the movies on these posters instead of the real ones!!! 😂
Bobbie Meyers 4 years ago
Wow, what the actual hell? Maybe watch the movie before making a poster!
𝔓𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔩𝔢 ℜ𝔞𝔢𝔑 4 years ago
What do ALL of these (but TWO) posters have in common? Violence, VIOLENCE, and yes, you guessed it MORE V-I-O-L-E-N-C-E! (U_U)
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