Awesome VHS Art That Didn't Make It To DVD

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Night of the Creeps:






Dun dun dun...

[Jimmy Simard Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jimmy Simard]

Awesome VHS art:

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Lame Birkenstock DVD cover:

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The 2002 Canadian release use the VHS cover (and was sourced from a tape too)

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

I don't dislike the Code Red DVD cover for Rituals but I think I prefer the VHS cover...

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The VHS art for the Embassy release of Golgo 13: Kowloon Assignment won't win any awards but I think it's better than both the US and UK DVD releases.

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No contest with this one...

[Ian Jane Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close Ian Jane]

Again, no contest. Anchor Bay messed this one up.

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And BU screwed this one up:

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VHS good, DVD bad.

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Another AB/BU mess up (dig the way the VHS rips off The Lost Boys):

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Synapse's DVD art is good but the VHS has that rad retro charm going for it.

[Robin Bougie Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Robin Bougie]

As long as we're talking about misrepresentational dvd art, I want to point out Al Adamson's Black Heat/Murder Gang/U.S. Vice (1976).

Here is what the movie looked like.



And the dvd cover:



WTF. How do those two even look remotely like they're in a 1970s drive-in movie? It's outright deception. I'd much rather they have gone with artist Grey Morrow's awesome poster art:

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That last poster is amazing. Such a neglected art form, the movie poster that is.

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Agreed. Poster art these days is generally pretty dull. It's all about star power, getting the cast members' faces up there, not about action or awesomeness or explosions.

[Todd Jordan Smut is good. Find all posts View Profile Close Todd Jordan]

They could do it if they wanted to. Too lazy I think. All they have to do is a montage like that one and we'd all be happy.

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I did a thing about Grey Morrow's movie poster art in Cinema Sewer book 2, but sadly I did not have that MURDER GANG poster yet, and didn't know of its existence.