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Classic 80s Movie Posters: How it Was

Cream of the crop from the world of popular 80s movies, hope to provoke some nice chills in you!

Oxana Kuznetsova by Oxana Kuznetsova
August 23, 2019
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Everyone keep talking about classic 80s movies recently with the freshest trend for this period of our past. Many series shot, illustrations carried out, and songs recorded. But how about the art of 80s movie posters everyone’s surely forgotten about?

All these contemporary movie remakes, second parts 20 years later from the first ones — no wonder sometimes people refer to the modern times as ‘nostalgia generation’, nothing less. I’d love to engage in a discussion of its pros and cons but I guess there’s more sense is just admiring the cultural heritage. So I’m surely alluding to my 80s movie posters compilation.

Sci-Fi Adventures

It’s the topic where the imagination gets the carte blanche for any twisted sci-fi idea. The exuberance of dominant blue color in the majority of these old movie posters, probably, has something to deal with space and mysterious shining. The exception is the novel-based ‘1984’ in very communist-reminding stylistics. ‘Brazil’ and ‘The Blade Runner’ are classic 80’s movies, having the purple shades in common. And lots, lots of greyish black!

Blade Runner, 1982
Blade Runner, 1982 / The Ladd Company / Shaw Brothers / Warner Bros
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 1984
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, 1984 / Cinema Group Ventures / Paramount Pictures
Back to the Future Part II, 1989
Back to the Future Part II, 1989 / Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment / U-Drive Productions
Aliens, 1986
Aliens, 1986 / Twentieth Century Fox / Brandywine Productions / SLM Production Group
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982 / Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment
The Quiet Earth, 1985 / Cinepro / Pilsbury Productions / Mr. Yellowbeard Productions Limited & Company
Brazil, 1985
Brazil, 1985 / Embassy International Pictures

War-Related Movies

These 80s movie posters, touching upon the people’s life during the most horrible events humanity has faced are packed with military items, gloomy and ‘dirty’ colors.

Full Metal Jacket, 1987
Full Metal Jacket, 1987 / Natant / Stanley Kubrick Productions / Warner Bros
Empire of the Sun, 1987
Empire of the Sun, 1987 / Amblin Entertainment / Warner Bros.

Epic Biopics and Historical Dramas

So different stories as well as the 80s movie posters themselves. Here’s that enigmatic Elephant Man in ephemeral worn press style, crown of thorns and a spilled blood of saint Jesus, and child’s drawing of John Lennon movie. Oh and minimalistic patriotism of ‘The right stuff’! Iconic movie posters for iconic cinema.

Imagine: John Lennon, 1988
Imagine: John Lennon, 1988 / Warner Bros.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff, 1983 / The Ladd Company
The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988
The Last Temptation of Christ, 1988 / Universal Pictures / Cineplex Odeon Films
The Elephant Man, 1980
The Elephant Man, 1980 / Brooksfilms
The Draughtsman's Contract, 1982
The Draughtsman's Contract, 1982 / British Film Institute (BFI) / Channel Four Television

Drama and comedy in 1980 movies

More colourful and vivid images to make the audience anticipate the story. I won’t go through all of these old movie posters, I’ll just praise their brilliant idea and concepts instead.

Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987
Der Himmel über Berlin, 1987 / Road Movies Filmproduktion / Argos Films / Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
The Color Purple, 1985
The Color Purple, 1985 / Amblin Entertainment / The Guber-Peters Company / Warner Bros.
New York Stories, 1989
New York Stories, 1989 / Touchstone Pictures / Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions
Il bisbetico domato, 1980
Il bisbetico domato, 1980 / Capital Film
Dead Poets Society, 1989
Dead Poets Society, 1989 / Touchstone Pictures / Silver Screen Partners IV / A Steven Haft Production
Airplane, 1980
Airplane, 1980 / Paramount Pictures / Howard W. Koch Productions1

Incredible Adventures

Crazy fonts and tons of comic books romantics. The 80s movie posters so-called ‘with sound’: you look at them and already play the main theme soundtracks in your head.

Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi
Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi, 1983 / Lucasfilm Ltd
Batman, 1989
Batman, 1989 / Warner Bros. / The Guber-Peters Company / PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, 1989 / Paramount Pictures / Lucasfilm

Brutal Thriller and Crime Plots

Practically, three different 1980 movies having only one thing in common: crimes disclosure and geometric line cuts on their posters. ‘Scarface’ as a comics tribute, ‘The Blues Brothers’ ridiculing the goofball brothers, and ‘Jagged Edge’ where the poster justifies the name of a movie.

Jagged Edge, 1985
Jagged Edge, 1985 / Columbia Pictures / Delphi IV Productions
Scarface, 1983
Scarface, 1983 / Universal Pictures
The Blues Brothers, 1980
The Blues Brothers, 1980 / Universal Pictures

Blood-Curdling Horrors

Here the above-mentioned blue colors in all their transparency and intensiveness come in these 80s movie posters as reverberations of night (the most scary time of the day), darkness, and ghosts. Not horrific enough for you? Well, some of them have blood in them, so there you have it.

Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983
Twilight Zone: The Movie, 1983 / Amblin Entertainment / Warner Bros.
Friday the 13th, 1980
Friday the 13th, 1980 / Paramount Pictures / Warner Bros. / Georgetown Productions Inc.
The Evil Dead, 1981
The Evil Dead, 1981 / Renaissance Pictures
Fright Night, 1985
Fright Night, 1985 / Columbia Pictures / Vistar Films / Columbia Pictures Industries
Children of the Corn, 1984
Children of the Corn, 1984 / Hal Roach Studios / New World Pictures / Angeles Entertainment Group
Poltergeist, 1982
Poltergeist, 1982 / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / Amblin Entertainment / SLM Production Group

Hope I’ve managed to remind you of some long-forgotten 1980 movies, reveal the iconic movie posters you haven’t seen for some reason and, possibly, enriched your ‘must watch’ movie list.

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