This movie isn’t exactly Alien with extra gore and a big spoonful of David Lynch, but it isn’t far from that either. Not a movie for me, but space horror isn’t usually my jam.
Another rushed poster, but that’s okay; I didn’t really feel much motivation to do something better.
Somehow, David Lynch’s Lost Highway is both more and less realistic than Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Body doubles, body switches, a Mystery Man who appears in multiple places at once, and a linear story told in non-linear time, but it’s still not as weird as a guy dressing up a woman to look like the woman who thought she was possessed by her ancestor and killed herself but then two or three other layers of unlikely weirdness happen.
Also: it was fun to see Robert Loggia beat up a guy on the closed road I use to ride my bike to Griffith Observatory.
Today’s poster was such an clear choice that I almost avoided it for being too obvious. Fun fact: The original poster featured an early example of computer graphics. Vertigo was actually the first movie to use computer graphics; Saul Bass used them in the title sequence and on the original version of this poster. They probably took days to render. I made my low resolution substitute in about five minutes with an online programming language for kids called Scratch. The part that took the longest was all the hand drawn lettering. There are Saul Bass homage fonts out there, but I wanted all the letters to be unique.
Before I saw Opus I read an article that called it a spiritual sequel to another movie. Even though that wasn’t exactly correct, it was enough to suck most of the mystery out of the film. Also, the other film was better.
One major difference between the two: the plot here requires all of the unknowing participants to act in very specific ways or the whole plan fails. It’s not exactly a brilliant plan if it could get wrecked by someone deciding to hide in a different room.
Tonight’s fake poster is a bit of a rush job, but I think it references the original pretty well. Malkovich’s eyes don’t hold quite the same kind of menace as the originals, though…
Man, trials in the fifties sure had a lot of joking around. It doesn’t matter if you’re talking about murder and rape; just saying the word “panties” is enough to get the whole courtroom giggling.
I saw this at the Vista, which only shows movies on film. Last time I was there I saw a great 70mm print of Vertigo. This time, it was a 35mm print that looked looked like it had been stored in the basement of a truck stop. It was watchable, but mighty rough.
Went with an easy, mostly text poster for today’s parody. The picture of Jimmy Stewart is pretty rough, so it matches well with the film print I saw.
Waka Waka!
I cannot say where these came from.
Someone pointed out that a movie called “Bitter Harvest” was actually made a few years ago. If you want your poster of imaginary movies to avoid having real counterparts, steal this version instead:
