Sunday 1 April 2018

Yet more cut and paste recycled poster art fun - CRUCIBLE OF HORROR and THE NEANDERTHAL MAN

The Australian daybill poster for Viktors Ritelis' brilliant Crucible of Horror (1971) features a hilariously jarring anachronism courtesy of the who-cares-just-slap-up-anything-that-even-looks-0.99999999%-connected-to-the-theme-of-the-title brigade. Not only does the artwork of the two women featured on the poster of actresses who don't appear in the film at all, it's also glaringly obvious that it was poached from something at least from two decades previously. Keith Crocker helped solved this mystery for me - he recalled that the image of the women originally featured on the poster for The Neanderthal Man (1953). The mind boggles...