Man, this movie is good. I saw a 4K remaster at The Egyptian, and it was frickin’ beautiful.
A few days ago I watched Tony Scott’s The Hunger. Yesterday I watched Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. I guess I should complete the director trilogy by watching Michael Scott’s Threat Level: Midnight.
A few months ago I used Blade Runner’s poster as the model for the fake poster for A New Leaf, so it only seems fair to do the reverse for this movie.
Well, that movie wasn’t for me. It does exactly what it looks like it will do; if that’s your thing, you’ll probably enjoy it. I was mostly bored and occasionally uncomfortable.
Today’s fake poster kinda-sorta looks like the original. The reason it works at all is the movie logo.
The most unbelievable part of this movie: That Countess Zaleska (that’s Dracula’s daughter to you) would have any interest in the drip doctor. She had way more chemistry with the random woman her manservant picked out for her to drain. I guess that’s why a ton of sites reference this as “the lesbian vampire movie.”
Oh, how this fake poster made the middle school teacher that I am giggle!
Easily the best vampire western set in modern day Iran but filmed near Bakersfield I have seen this year. And who could not love a vampire on a skateboard?
I was annoyed that I’d already done a Home Alone parody – it’s right there in the title! Instead, I went with another “walk” movie. This is less of a copy and more like a strongly influenced design. It also looks like it could have been a real poster for the movie, which is sort of against the idea of these fake posters. I do like it, though.
Look, I know she’s been entranced, but the whole seduction scene in this is hilarious. “Oh no- I have spilled my sherry on my thin white shirt that I am wearing without a bra. I’m trying to clean it by slowing rubbing a wet cloth on my breast, but it doesn’t seem to be working. Would you help me remove it, mysterious woman?”
…and now I present: THE WORST FAKE POSTER OF THE SET. It’s not a bad idea, but I should have looked for a better source image. However, I already made two other posters and I am done with Photoshop for the day.
Also: I realized that I’ve seen five “Lady Vampire” movies in the last ten months. I guess I should expect another one by August.
This is one of Elliott Kalan of The Flop House‘s favorite movies, so when the New Beverly had it as part of a Preston Sturges double feature I knew I had to go. And sure enough, it’s mighty funny. I want to spoil every joke. I will spoil none.
This fake poster is based on a different “miracle” movie:
This isn’t as strong as The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, but it’s still funny. It’s fun to see Sturges using a lot of the same actors in different roles.
A very weak title link between this movie and the poster source:
Christmas in July was my 100th Fake movie poster! How many hours have I spent making these things mostly for myself? UNKNOWN!
My least favorite part of the movie: the zombie fights. I don’t really care for the high contrast low shutter speed choppiness of those scenes. And I always know a movie hasn’t quite got me when I’m mentally poking at plot holes while I’m watching.
But I did enjoy the movie more as it went along, and the pace and story shifted from “uh-oh – another zombie horde” to A discussion of the meaning of death and life.
Alfie Williams plays Spike.. Because he’s in a movie with a bunch of popular actors, he gets pretty low billing even though he’s the primary focus of the film. For today’s parody poster I decided to fix his billing.
Movies out in the summer of1989: Batman, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Back to the Future Part II, Look Who’s Talking, Dead Poets Society, Leathal Weapon 2, Ghostbusters II, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, The Little Mermaid, Born on the Fourth of July… and this goofy little movie. It never had a chance.
I had to adjust my usual Alamo Drafthouse viewing experience expectations for this. For one thing, anyone going to see UHF in a theater in 2025- and this includes me- is likely to be a weirdo who laughs loud and hard at corny jokes they already know. For another, I somehow decided I’d be okay sitting front row center, so the whole movie looked like this:
UHF is about competing TV networks, so the source poster was a no-brainer. I could have left in all the original taglines. Unfortunately, the poster is not very well-known, but trust me: this is really accurate.
Some random things:
I thought about making the fake poster based on the one for How to Marry a Millionaire, but it has way too many elements to try and correlate things in this movie, so I went with something a little more obscure.
Boy, Studio Ghibli sure is good at crushing hearts.
I spent way to long faking the logo for this fake poster, and it’s still not quite right.
There’s a pretty good chance I would have liked this when it came out, and there are some parts that work for me, but Old Man Me spent most of the movie thinking two things: “Gosh, they sure are trying hard to be edgy” and “James Duval has anti-charisma in this.”
Some cool set designs, though.
I struggled to find a poster to parody for this, and I don’t think it really works.
So there’s this woman who just can’t find romance in her life. There’s a guy who’s her best friend, but they’ve never quite become a couple. Then an opportunity comes up to do something she’s always dreamed of, but there’s this awful (but handsome) guy there. You will never guess what happens next!
Other than some nudity and frank sex talk that probably wouldn’t happen in an American version, this movie is a lifetime rom-com with some subtitles. Everyone is charming and fun to watch, but it’s total fluff.
For today’s poster I went with the obvious dumb pun.
