Whoever designed the original poster for this sure had fun adding not-very subtle subtext:
Richard Dix (1608 Vine Street) is Duke, a bank robber on a brutal chain gang. He plans an escape, but when Johnny, his brother, gets put in the same gang, Duke decides to stay in to protect him. He doesn’t do a great job.
Today’s fake poster is a David Lynch ripoff:
Jafar Panahi is a braver man than me.
Today’s fake poster:
Anne Baxter thinks she murdered a very creepy Raymond Burr, but isn’t sure because she got blackout drunk on Polynesian Pearl Divers. My favorite part is when she uses a handkerchief over the the mouthpiece of a phone to disguise her voice, and it totally works. It turns out Detective Drebin was right.
Ann Sothern (1600 Vine Street) plays one of Baxter’s roommates. The location of the fictional bar where Burr gets Baxter drunk is actually very close to Sothern’s star. This was filmed right around when she moved from film to television. I’m sure we all remember her best as the voice of the car in My Mother The Car.
Today’s fake poster is the second one I’ve done that’s based on a “classy” adult movie, but the other one is better.
When I see the title “Roofman” my brain starts playing a parody of Soundgarden’s “Spoon Man.”
Straightforward, fun movie.
And I’m pretty happy with today’s fake poster.
Jennifer Lawrence is really good at finding projects that give her new ways to be miserable. She’s also really good at playing those parts, so it all works out.
Good Golly, it’s a fake poster!
The hero of this movie is a screenwriter who’s a better detective than the cops, contaminates evidence without consequence, solves the crime, and gets the girl. These days he’d be called a Mary Sue (or maybe a Gary Stu).
It’s not a great movie, but it’s fun to see three of the leads from Dracula in wildly different roles.
Adrienne Ames (1612 Vine Street) plays the main suspect, an actress who was recently divorced from the murder victim. In real life she had already been divorced twice, even though she was only in her early twenties. Her first marriage happened when she was 13 or 14. Gross.
Today’s fake poster isn’t very complex, but it did amuse me.
This gets a little fawning, but how could it not? It’s about Kathleen Hanna, a prime architect of everything cool in the 90s. My biggest complaint: They never revealed if Le Tigre was named after the knockoff Izod shirt that J. C. Penney used to sell.
Today’s fake poster was almost based on The Wedding Singer, but I liked this one more.
There’s something funny about making a silent movie based on an opera…
…and it’s funnier when you cast an opera singer as the lead. That’s a little unfair: Geraldine Farrar (1620 Vine Street) was popular enough to have her own version of Swifties.
Today’s poster is based on a different staged music production that was made into a movie.
It’s not subtle. At one point a character has a line that might as well have started with “And now I shall state the moral of the film.” Also: I learned that adding enough electricity to properly connected parts of dead bodies can create Wolverine powers.
Also: At one point Dr. Frankenstein mentions that The Creature will need to be huge to make the work easier, and I half expected Teri Garr to pop in and say “He would have an enormous schwanzstucker!”
This is my 200th fake poster!
Still holds up.
The science makes no sense, but this movie’s really a fantasy story so that’s okay. Still weird that Marty’s mom has a little chuckle over the guy waxing her car being the guy who sexually assaulted her in high school, though.
I used the Back to the Future poster for a movie earlier this year, so it seems right to go the other way for this fake poster:
