Two more priceless Ghana posters

I know you aren't tired of these yet. I came across a ton more posters and was struck but how gory so many of them are! These aren't, but we'll post some more soon. Until then, just let these two sink in.


I don't think this came out in my local theater, those Ghana kids are so lucky.


WHOA, I think we know what's going on here. This is pretty genius actually, the poster becomes the trailer, I am intrigued.

More amazingly ridiculous Ghana posters

I never tire of these, I swear. Check this is shortened crop of new finds.

Is he kicking Ice-T in the face?!

No Tracy Morgan, please, I didn't mean it!

The Hellraiser movies are actually this fucked up, they got it right.

Blood Money, starring the cross-eyes ghost of Michael Jackson, may he rest in peace.

Dragon Ballz!

Bolo Yeung as Lou Ferrigno vs. a gay sex train?

You're Ghana Love These

On the heels of the previous video covers post, I have to share these hand painted movie posters from Ghana. They're amazing! Explanation:

In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.

In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired - often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and taken on the road (note the heavy damages). The “mobile cinema” began to decline in the mid-nineties due to greater availability of television and video; as a result the painted film posters were substituted for less interesting/artistic posters produced on photocopied paper.

The artistic freedom that these artists were given allowed for the creation of some very interesting and sometimes bizarre posters that, as screenwriter Walter Hill wrote, were quite often “more interesting than the films.”

Text and posters from: ephemera assemblyman and the accompanying links within. Click for mega sizes.


















If you're into these, some are available rather inexpensively considering how cool and unique they are. One could only wish some of these movies were half as interesting as these representations. Steven Seagal never looked so good standing next to a corn cob.