A movie poster is more than just an announcement of an upcoming film. It has to awaken your interest, hook you in, and make you curious enough to go and see the movie. To put it simply, posters have the task of selling the film to you in just one image. But with time, they have grown beyond this goal as well.
Some of the best movie posters have inspired a whole aesthetic of decorating your home or place of business, especially coffee shops and bakeries. It’s always fun to enter someone’s house or a new cafe and try to count how many of the displayed movies you have seen. You can also tell a lot about the owner’s taste in cinema based on the posters they display. Vintage movie posters have even become valuable collectibles, with cinephiles all over the world trying to get rare posters into their possession.
But while great movie posters are a form of art of their own, things happen, and bad movie posters also come to exist. Why do they happen? Reasons may vary from somebody just being a bad designer to not really knowing what the movie is about. Why such movie posters get approved is a whole different story, but at least they provide us with a reason to laugh, especially if you have actually seen the movie.
In this article you will find quite a few examples of bad poster design. Which one looks the ugliest to you? Don’t forget to vote for it. Share this article with your friends, and show us in the comments other strange, unappealing, or downright bad movie posters you have seen.
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#1 Cujo
"The Ghanaian poster for Cujo is possibly amazing instead."
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39points
#2 Star Wars
"Russian poster for Star Wars is crazy. Darth Vader is a cat."
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38points
#3 Top Dog
Flint_Vorselon replied:
"Please tell me the dog was the brains of the operation."
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32points
#4 The Penthouse
Prince-of-Ravens replied:
"Pretty sure every single thing in that poster comes from a stock photo site."
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30points
#5 Going Overboard
whendoesOpTicplay replied:
"Is it supposed to look like he's in the Sims?"
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28points
#6 X-Men: First Class
SUBLIMINAL__MESSAGES replied:
"It should've just been the silhouettes, the faces are such a horrendous idea they should've never made it past the planning phase."
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26points
#7 Spanish Poster For Chef Movie
User No 1 replied:
"Jesus. I couldn't even recall Robert Downey Jr. being in Chef. Was he in it for like a single scene or something?"
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26points
#8 Grown UPS 2
FireTigerThrowdown replied:
"Wonderful posters. Hurr durr, grown men sure are infantile manchildren while women are joyless mother figures."
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25points
#9 Finding Normal
"I don't even remember where I saw this, but it took me no time at all to realize it's the worst one I've ever seen."
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25points
#10 My Ghost Dog
"I work in health care and some of the movies that we get are these christian movie house films to show to elderly or kids and you're just like "Dude this movie looks like it'll make them feel worse." So we always end up buying the latest movies and keeping them in rotation for people to watch."
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23points
#11 Left Behind
criminalsunrise replied:
"That looks like Nicholas Cage's face on John Travolta's body... hold on, that'd make a great film!"
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23points
#13 Love Never Dies
becauseican95 replied:
"The poster's bad. The title's worse."
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22points
#16 Hit By Lightning
DQ11 replied:
"Still though it is almost worth mentioning twice.
3 very obvious separate pictures attempted to be pieced together + fake gun arm... just odd. Somebody got paid money for this... and then probably got another job after, and got paid for that too."
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19points
#17 Shaggy The Dog
"They put his eyes on a dog and it's just creepy."
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#18 Zyzzyx Road
jer706 replied:
"This movie grossed a total of literally $30 in the box office on a $1.2 million budget."
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18points
#19 The Accidental Husband
isorx0932 replied:
"Please tell me this isn't real. Was this done in Microsoft paint?"
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17points
