Monster of the Day #1811

Updated on September 17, 2018 By Ken Begg 7 Comments

Speaking of alternate poster art, the Alamo Drafthouse chain (man, I’d love one of those up here) commissions new posters for their showings apparently. A lot of them are pretty nifty. How is that cost effective for the theater? They make prints and sell them, which seem to sell out nearly immediately. I assume that’s how the artist gets his nut.

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  • Gamera977

    Wow, that’s beautiful! I didn’t even notice all the detail the artist worked in there on my phone screen.

  • Man, hunters and their hanging trophy heads on the wall. Just give a fella a little dignity in death, will ya?

    On a more serious note: Killer poster.

  • The Rev.

    Alamo Drafthouse is as bad a temptation as Half Price Books. It was bad enough when I had an AD about 15 minutes’ drive away; our latest one opened up a couple months ago, and it’s not even five minutes.

    The poster is lovely, by the way.

  • Eric Hinkle

    What is the Alamo Drafthouse? I assume it’s a theater chain.

    And that poster is magnificent.

  • The Rev.

    That is correct. Along with showing current movies, they have regular screenings of older movies, cult movies, and so on. In the past year I’ve seen screenings of King Kong, Casablanca, Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3-D, Big Trouble in Little China, Lionman, and Wolf Devil Woman. There is a regular thing where they play random B-movies and connect it to the month they’re showing it in. Sometimes the gamble pays off (Parents near Mother’s Day) and sometimes it doesn’t (for Christmas it was Hollywood Vice Squad because of the scene near the end where the one cop is dressed like Santa).

    They’ve also done quite a bit of work on finding and/or restoring older or forgotten movies, most (in)famously Miami Connection.

  • Eric Hinkle

    That sounds pretty good. I need to see if one is near me.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Rats. No dice. Looks like the closest it gets to the Lehigh Valley is Yonkers or Northern Virginia.