# ID this movie from a badly remembered poster!

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**Created:** [November 22, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993 "2008-11-22T15:30:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993/1 "2008-11-22T15:30:29Z")

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In a twist on the usual ‘ID this and that’-threads, I can’t give you any other clues than what I remember from the poster:  
A silhouetted man, standing before a black backdrop, with a gun pointing into the lower right corner. That’s about it. The film is probably a sort of black comedy, or at least sort of black. It may centre on a hitman, and I seem to remember something with ‘dog’ in the title. It might not be an American film. It’s probably something with a sort of ‘cult’ status among a certain subset of movie goers.

Yeah, it’s not much, but I’ve seen songs identified by descriptions like ‘the chorus goes something like ‘da da daaa da da dadaaa’…’, so I’m giving it a shot.

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993/2 "2008-11-22T15:35:39Z")

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Hurray, I got one! [Man Bites Dog](http://www.librairielabourse.com/journal/fevrier01/images/Man%20bites%20dog.jpg). 😃

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993/3 "2008-11-22T15:44:30Z")

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> [@ivan\_astikov](#):
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> Hurray, I got one! [Man Bites Dog](http://www.librairielabourse.com/journal/fevrier01/images/Man%20bites%20dog.jpg). 😃

Nailed it in one! Thanks a bunch!

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**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993/4 "2008-11-22T15:53:49Z")

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> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#):
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> Nailed it in one! Thanks a bunch!

Happy to be of service, **HMHW**! 😉

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-this-movie-from-a-badly-remembered-poster/473993/5 "2008-11-22T21:05:55Z")

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He’s biting a dog and shooting a baby!?