They don’t make them like they used to. Until now – well, since 2006, but knowing my penchant for catching things late, I only became aware of this most awesome artist today.
The fantastic works of Tyler Stout, an illustrator from Washington D.C., take you back to a time when film posters were considered valuable collectibles, worth framing and putting up on your wall. See some of his rad posters after the jump.
To see more of Tyler Stout’s brilliant poster work, head to his official web site. And hit up Vice Magazine for an interview with the artist.
[via Bak Magazine]
BONUS: Did you know that an original poster for Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis fetched a world record price of $690,000? Before that, the most ever spent on a movie poster was an original from the 1932 horror classic, The Mummy. [source]
4 replies on “Amazing Movie Posters by Tyler Stout”
Back in the day, before the internet and trailers on TV, the only way we would know whether the movie was watchable was by the poster. The posters back in the eighties were works of art as they had to convey such an amount of info.
I still remember “Jaws” poster.
Agreed. Movie posters these days just aren’t awe-inspiring as they were back in the day. I love the poster for Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope by Tom Jung – I bought a copy from All Posters some time back. The one by The Brothers Hildebrandt is equally awesome.
The Internet Movie Poster Awards Gallery has loads of posters ordered by year. It’s well worth a visit.
il grande lebowski
Epic
The Big Lebowski is one of my faves.
Incidentally, have you seen Film The Blanks? The site’s not updated any more but it used to post these abstract, radically simplified movie posters with the titles and tag lines removed, and asked people to guess what the movie was.