I love Italian movie posters from the 60s and 70s, I love the art style, but I’ve always been perplexed by the posters for a certain well-known 1968 zombie film…
I mean, look at these. Beautiful. Marvellous pieces of promotional art. A ton of gothic mood and atmosphere. Grand stuff. Also, frankly, completely unrelated to the actual film, which is, of course, Night of the Living Dead by George Romero… or should that be “George A. Kramer”? I can only assume the Italian distributor for the film just gave the artist the film title and the names of the people in the film and absolutely no visual material to work from, the end result being something that looked more suited to an earlier 60s Italo-gothic by someone like Mario Bava or Riccardo Freda, which further got the director’s name wrong and promoted Randy Burr, one of the zombie extras, to the head of the cast. Also the film is noticeably not in widescreen. Fantastic film, obviously, just… not quite the one represented by these posters, which I love, but which I also find thoroughly perplexing.
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