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[–] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I love these. During Ghana's series of military govermments through the 70s and 80s, import laws made it functonally impossible to get printing presses into the country. Ghanaian cinemas, undeterred, did all their posters by hand instead https://www.dannydutch.com/post/bizarre-movie-posters-from-africa-that-are-so-bad-they-re-good

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Skua@kbin.earth 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's fascinating how many of these use obscured or distorted faces as a main element

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago

It is very strange and consistent to the point that there had to be a reason why. Perhaps they were all done by the same artist, and that was their thing.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

My all-time favorite one is an entire distorted human:

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Absolutely beautiful.

A story of a spy and his lover suffering from a fish allergy induced angioedema and their race against time to find the nearest doctor.