Favourite Movie Box-Art/Posters...

[AGXStarseed]

I was re-reading through the comments on another thread regarding video rental outlets and started to think about my own times wandering around my Dad's local video rental as a kid.
For much of my time there, I'd be admiring the box art and posters of films that the video rental store had - even if most of what I saw were from films that I was definitely too young to watch at the time, like Scary Movie or Shriek.

As such, I decided to ask; were there any movie posters and/or VHS/DVD box-art that you remember in particular - even if the movie it advertised for wasn't very good?
Here's one I remember in particular:

Here's another that I remember seeing not long after The Fellowship of the Ring came out in the cinemas:

What about you guys? Was there any box-art/movie posters that you remember from the video rental stores?

 

[Judge]

That's easy for me. Any of the classic Universal monster posters of the 30s and 40s.

Vintage Horror Movie Posters & Classic Monster Film Art | AllPosters.com

 

[Streetwise]

My mother loved fashion from the 1930s\1940s so I appreciate that era like

 

[Tom]

We didn't have a VCR early on while stationed in Europe. But when we returned to the US in 1987, I remember these were some of the first movies we rented. Nothing special, just typical 80's B-grade. Looking at these I suspect some cross-contamination in the art departments.

 

[AGXStarseed]

I'm reminded of this 1993 film as well - which uses the Terminator formula of trying to save the past after a terrible event in the future. Ironically, the "future" of this one is 2022:

 

[abirdinnewyork]

The Crow 1994 Brandon Lee Sitting in Chair Poster 24x36 inches | eBay

I have never seen this as front for the movie, still just

 

[Tom]

I'm reminded of this 1993 film as well - which uses the Terminator formula of trying to save the past after a terrible event in the future. Ironically, the "future" of this one is 2022:

I never heard of this one. Which leaves me with low expectations. But I am a Hamill fan, well more of a Skywalker fan, so am going to see if I can track it down just to give it a shot.

 

[Forest Cat]

This is a local Norwegian movie poster that is special for me, it a stop-motion-animated movie from 1975 called "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" and that car is the famous IL Tempo Gigante.

 

[maycontainthunder]

This is a local Norwegian movie poster that is special for me, it a stop-motion-animated movie from 1975 called "Pinchcliffe Grand Prix" and that car is the famous IL Tempo Gigante. It has two engines, V12 and 800 horses. And it is a real car, someone built one, I have been in it. It`s the craziest car I have been in.

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@Nitro might enjoy this, you guys have a lot of cars but I`ll bet you don`t have a car like this over there in the states.

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Thank you Forest Cat, that solves a mystery for me. Many, many years ago I saw a fragment of this movie along with others in a TV program. I wondered what it was!

 

[AGXStarseed]

Here's another poster I like:

 

[AGXStarseed]

I like this one, it's a Swedish movie, Midsummer. Her expression makes you wonder what is going on. She has that nice flower-thing on her head and the nature behind her looks lovely, everything seems nice. Except her expression, something is not right here... It's a good poster.

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Yeah, I've seen a review by Will Jordan of that movie and he wasn't fond of it (I can't link the review as he swears a fair bit through it).
However, I'll let you watch the film and decide for yourself if you're interested.

Interesting, though, how films that are frequently rated as average/poor tend to have eye-catching movie posters.
One example is this one for Evilspeak - a movie that got banned in multiple places and only has a score of 5.6/10 on IMDB, but definitely has a poster that I would at least check out if I saw it at the video rental store as a kid: