Along with the best tagline, In space no one can hear you scream.
Glad that’s settled.
It’s probably because I am old, but I vastly prefer painted, illustrator-style movie posters; they have a certain caché.
The all-time best movie poster is the Brothers Hildebrandt’s original poster for Star Wars. This is all kinds of awesome.
Blade Runner also had a pretty cool poster.
I’ve always liked the poster forYoung Frankenstein.
One of my favorites is the Polish movie poster for Francis Ford Coppola’s classic, The Conversation, with Gene Hackman.
Some great movie posters:
Animal House
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A Clockwork Orange
The Dark Knight
Gone With the Wind
Inception
Jaws
MAS*H
9
Star Wars
The Sting
The Terminator
The Truman Show
The Ugly Truth
The Unborn
Unforgiven
Too bad there wasn’t a wide release for the film that dare not speak its name.
I’ll have to go with The Thing.
Tag line seriously works, too ~ “Man is the warmest place to hide.” I really love this one because it’s one of those rare things: A remake that’s better than the original.
It’s good, but i’m not sure it’s better.
I also don’t really agree about the tagline. It’s a tagline that only really works for the remake, because it basically gives away a significant part of the plot. It’s fine if you already know how the alien works, but if you don’t, then it’s both odd and also something of a spoiler.
Wait… which remake is that from? The 1980s remake of the Howard Hawkes film, or the 2011 remake of the John Carpenter film?
I don’t care for the Alien poster, but maybe it’s because I thought that was supposed to be an alien’s head for a long time.
For sheer awesomeness: the Frazetta poster for The Gauntlet and the Boris Vallejo poster for National Lampoon’s Vacation.
The original poster, featuring Maude and The Dude in Gutterballs, for The Big Lebowski is my favorite.
Credit where credit is due: the two posters for Human Centipede 2 were outstanding. Number one and number two. Very probably NSFW.
A few months ago a local church had a poster advertising their Easter season services. It featured a large egg cracking open with strong light streaming out. I kept wondering if it was a conscious reference or if the designer was just too young to remember.
While I’m not a big fan of Alien (to understate things immensely), their tagline is one of the best in film history and I can’t think of too many candidates for a better movie poster.
Alien’s tagline was one of the best, but I find the poster lacking. Jaws is one of the best pure posters of all time, but lacks the requisite tagline.
The original trailer is pretty great as well. At the time there was nothing like it.
The egg is opening wrong! It doesn’t open up with a little hatch on the side, it peels open at the top. Always bugged me.