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.

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Julia Atkinson
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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
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    4 years ago

    I think this one is quite acceptable

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    Julia Atkinson
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    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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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    This is a mash-up that needs to happen

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Really captures the Nicholas Cage-ness of Nicholas Cage

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    GORN

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    Jayne Kyra
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Oh please, the Czechoslovak poster takes the cake here! GB1PosterF...0e-png.jpg GB1PosterFromCzech-61a17c0fb6f0e-png.jpg

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    Serial pacifist
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The thing in the upper right corner...worries me.

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    Sue Grigg
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I love that they added the MAGA moron from the Jan.6 attempted coup , a perfect example of the Idiocracy.

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    Not sure the artist actually saw the film, but it stands on its own merits

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    Catherine Binder
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    4 years ago

    I want to watch this version.

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    The X-rated director's cut

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    YoyoSthlm
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Spoiler alert!!

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    I can live with it

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Again, not at all bad. I'd rent it from the Peace Video Club

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    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    So they saw this one before painting this. Kinda seems like cheating.

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    Sue Grigg
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I don't recall The Office being this violent. Lol.

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    To be fair, it's only slightly more baffling than the show

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Batman's most deadly adversary, the Man With Sausage Rolls in His Hair

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    jasper
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I would hang this in my house.

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    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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    Donnie Mc00
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    this poster provides more entertainment than the film did.

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    Otter
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I think it captures the spirit of the film pretty well!

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    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    With a side of The Butterfly Effect, Anaconda, Isle of Dr. Moreau....

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    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Purple Raining down the bullets in da club

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    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The artist really loves beheadings.

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    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Is it trying to eat her, or barfing her out?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    You just know Chewbacca is wearing a thong and stripper heels

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    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    What western movie would it had been without iconic 1800's guns like an Uzi?

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    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    My name is Indigo Montoya...

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    Bear Hall
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Please have Stephen King write a sequel to the movie!

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    A wee bit too restrained if anything

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    Downright cute

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    Ozymandias73
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Wrong version of Cube lol

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    Chucky Cheezburger
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    There's Remeck again...

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    My God, I really must watch this again

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Now with extra Elephant Man

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    Bear Hall
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    What the what? This story would definitely end quick and end badly.

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    J. F.
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Yippee ki yay!

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    Moxxie️‍️️‍ The Queer
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    pretty much how i remember it yeah

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    Otter
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Matt Smith AND Paul McGann???

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    Lauren Caswell
    Community Member
    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
    Community Member
    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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    R Carson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Balloon boy is the only one that looks real.

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    Hannah Edwards
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Head off?

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    Miss Van
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why is NWA on the poster? LOL

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    Glynna Bowood
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Scary poster and scary movie.

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Get on the wrong side of Biker Dad and you'll end up drowning in porridge

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    grey galah
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    This must be the sequel to Death Proof where Kurt gets to kill singers

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    grey galah
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    what is it with all this imaginary dismemberment??

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    BrandX
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why is the zombie from The Walking Dead on there?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    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
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    4 years ago

    I love this!

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    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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    Jubum
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    does he really do what I think with his arm?! .... o0

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    AwkwardDinosuar3000
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I’m sorry but what is that???!?!????

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    R Carson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Rowdy Roddy was much better looking than that.

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    Zorena Deckard
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    May the schwartz be with you>

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    R Carson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Nope

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    Anne Rouffignac
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Starring Liam Neeson 😂

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    V 2000
    Community Member
    4 years ago (edited)

    Aw man... SPOILER ALERT!... (i think?)

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    Melissa TO
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why does this look less violent than the office?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I think the artist could have done a better job of rendering Freddy's iconic stripy sweater

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    Cayna Louise
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Quite the visual aid this is.

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    The line-dancing scene had completely slipped my memory

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    Jihana
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    It's been a while...but I definitely don't remember any helicopters, or Uzis or...anything else that's depicted here 😂

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    David Leick
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    4 years ago

    I see nothing wrong here.

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    R Carson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    She doesn't care about his face.....

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    Julia Atkinson
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    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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    YoyoSthlm
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Well it's Robocop 2 so he's not really new...

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    Ju Mora
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Didn't know Dominique Strauss Kahn was an à tour...

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    Julia Atkinson
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    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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    Eucritta
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    El Topo would've been improved by firebreathing horses.

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    Troux
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    They fought with fortune cookies on chains?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Bojack Horseman's career went back earlier than we suspected

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    GFSTaylor
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Been a while since I saw this, but I don't remember the zombies ?

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    DumYum
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Where is Jamie Foxx?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    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
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Very high, apparently

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    When your large intestine struggles to escape from the crushing pressure of your abs

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    A bold new retelling of 'Hamlet'"

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    Jihana
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    YOU ARE TEARING ME APART, LISA! But here it looks like the other way around...

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    Julia Atkinson
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    4 years ago

    Today's new word - "loothing"

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    GFSTaylor
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    More random Michael Jackson, bottom right.

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    Angelar
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    That is such an incredible film that I'm just glad that anybody watches it. Even in the hope for a decapitation.

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    Catherine Binder
    Community Member
    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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    LeeAnne B
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Behold the year 1858 with Uzis and a helicopter.

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    ChristopherRobin Marriott
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    1 year 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
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    "there's nothing like the smell of lighter fluid in the morning," thinks Pesci's character

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    Cayna Louise
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Why does he have ribs in his thigh?

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    I'd completely forgotten Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in this film

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    C Demers
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Is he half-lobster?

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    Jens Pettersson
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    4 years ago

    Charlie do surf!

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    Julia Atkinson
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    Suspicion Breeds Confidence - coming soon to a motivational poster near you

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    Jonathan Labelle
    Community Member
    4 years ago

    even jackie chandont know what going on

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