MOVIE POSTERS ARE BETTER IN GHANA
09.16.09
Apparently in Ghana in the 80s, entrepreneurial-minded guys would drive around from village to village with a VCR, projector, and generator and create a sort of mobile cinema.
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. [via assemblyman-eph]
Long story short, if you give a Ghanian artist a movie title and a canvas sack, nine times out of ten you get something weirder and cooler than any of the photoshopped garbage we get over here. Holy crap, I think this one’s about Twilight fans.
[more posters here, thanks to BDarbs for the tip]
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I like that on the sleep walkers poster her leg has TURNED INTO a cat.
You should see the one for ‘Ghana With The Wind’. It’s just a painting of a guy lighting his farts, but it’s very tastefully done.
Meh, we got living past 30, they got movie posters. It’s a fair trade.
Looks to me like Micheline Connery spends a lot of time in Ghana.
In Mother Russia, the pussy scratches you! Wait…
Cujo is the saddest wittle killer puppy. :(
The only way that dog could be a killer would be if you ate it raw.
Dog tartar is a delicacy.
I didn’t know Fran Drescher was in ‘Evil Dead II’.
Oh, wait. The box said Milkbones get rid of dog tartar deliciously. My bad.
It seems like the only one they got right was House Party.
RACISM???
Wowsa, sweet take on Alive. Ghanians have the same regard for South Americans as I do for Ghanians.
If you go to see one of these movies there, don’t drink the water.
You might get Ghana-rrhea.
Jack, I’m Ghana be so mad if this starts a pun war
What in the Wide World of Sports is Monster Evil Protact? Apart from being made of win.
Whatchya Ghana do about it, Eib?
There’s a law in Ghana that says movie posters must be awesome.
It’s upheld by their military leaders in the PentaGhana.
These mobile theaters also played some TV shows, but they really butchered the titles. Their poster for Taxi called the show “in the Ghana DeVito”.
My neck hurts. I think I pulled something stretching for that joke. At least it’s not Ghanarreah Pearlman.
Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrst
You just Ghanahead of yourself there, Jack!
When showing The Terminator in these mobile theaters, Arnold’s famous line is “I’m Ghana be back.”
I went to go see Children of the Korn, but it was behind all this bamboo.
I had to climb up some Shoots and Ladders in order to see.
Flour sacks? Am I to assume that nobody in Ghana owns a van?
GHAN!!!!!!!!!!!!A!!!!!!!!1
Humphrey Bogart: “Crosh me an’ yer a Ghana, shee?”
Jimmy Stewart: “I’m a Ghanna pound you”
Jerry O’Connel as Terminator? Jerry O’Connel as Terminator.
I haven’t thought about SleepWalkers in a really long time. Think I’m going to go stab someone with a corn cob tonight.
Oh, is that what the kids are callin’ it these days?
Gahana In 60 Seconds is a slide show of sand a few bushes and a tree with a crow sitting in it.
Holy fucking hell, DNASteal, He *JUST* got your Twilight fans joke…KAHLESS HELP HIM! HE IS WORKING LATE! FUCK MARLENE!
All the journalists there are Gahanazo.
Two words.
Kidd n Play. Sa-weet!
I’m Gahana Git You Sucker made zero sense to those people.
Those posters turned out pretty cool considering that they had to paint them with all of those flies in their eyes.
I bet going to a movie theater in Ghana sucks. No matter what time you go, there will always be people who absolutely will not shut up.
Gahana, where DJ Jazzy Jeff is king.
GET TO DA GHANA!!!!
Damn, I thought this was gonna (not Ghana) be about a Ghandi sequel.
That dude rocked so hard…
Ghana: If the AIDS doesn’t get you, the Machete wielding gangs/Famine/Lions will.
According to these posters, Children of the Corn 3 features Nic Cage and Evil Dead 2 stars Roseanne Barr and some sort of Stallone/Seinfeld hybrid.
*stumbles in, swivels head left and right*
Hey… this isn’t RedTube.
*stumbles back out*
Living in Ghana I get to see lots of similar art – usually for barbershops etc. but these are classic!
On my blog, I took these posters and paired them with the originals – must say the Ghanaian ones are so much more interesting!!!
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