These African Movie Posters Are So Weird and Bizarre That They're Actually Pretty Good

Hollywood needs to hire whoever is making these great posters.

Ayoub

• Published in Funny
• May 18, 2018

Back in the 80's and 90's, African artists were required to add their own touch to Hollywood movie posters by glorifying their containings and overexaggerating a lot of their features. The main goal was to sell as many tickets as possible, so the movie posters had to look as good as possible.

Ghana was the main producer of these handmade posters: 

"World cinema is a lingua franca we all understand,"  Los Angeles Ernie Wolfe art dealer and collector told The Atlantic. 

He stumbled upon these odd cinema advertisements for the first time in 1990, while he was traveling in the country.

 "These posters appeal to people because [they] invite this really incredible dialogue—a comparison between what you know of a film and how the painter imagined it. And they’re also just really good art."

Jurassic Park

Alien Vs. Predator

Terminator 1

Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York

The Matrix

X-Men

Fair Game

Mission Impossible

Invasion U.S.A

Apocalypto

Sister Act

Robin Hood

Terminator

Cujo The Killer Dog

The Spy Who Loved Me

Ayoub