White Skin of the Black Market: Women in Cages!

 »Women in Cages« is an exploitation flick from 1971, produced by the legendary Roger Corman. This illustration, based on the movie, was done for the DVD Label Subkultur Entertainment and their line of retro-style hardbox editions. Playing around in Photoshop I created a bogus poster design using the copy/taglines of the original release poster. The illustration was painted in acrylics on paper, 2012.

Unaltered illustration 30 cm x 40 cm.

Retro package design: Good ol' VHS times....

Bogus poster design...

DINOSAURUS!

 

Recently done: A retro-style illustration for the 60ties Matinee classic »Dinosaurus!« by Irwin S. Yeaworth.

Inspired by the works of Klaus Dill and other German movie poster artists of the 50ties and 60ties I went for a more stylized, "graphic" approach, with bold, black outlines and screaming colors. For the (fun) version above I reused and tweaked the typography from the original US one-sheet poster. 

The actual illustration was used for Subkultur Entertainment's line of limited retro hard box re-packages, celebrating the good ol' VHS rental aesthetics. Grab it while you can, it's limited to 150 units only!

JB's "Frankenstein in Hiroshima"

This is the cover of the CD featuring "Necromantik" director Jörg Buttgereit's radioplay homage to Toho's giant monster movies: "Frankenstein in Hiroshima". It's based on Honda's "Frankenstein conquers the world", one of the most ridiculous and entertaining movies ever. I used Buttgereit's actual face as a template for the illustration (with the cover of Famous Monsters #39 in mind) and recreated some vintage advertising material mimiking a German release of the movie for the CD inlay card as well.

Anolis Film released the radioplay as an CD extra for some DVD release not long ago. This is the CD label...

The "What If" movie poster ...

... and some lobby cards.