Incredibly Awful Hand-Painted Bootleg Movie Posters from Russia

We had a lot of fun with the delightfully terrible bootleg covers found in black market-lite shops across the world. Little did we know that Russia elevates unauthorized film marketing to an art form… a hilariously poor art form. Thanks to Adme.Ru, we’ve come across an entire gallery of some of the worst hand-painted posters for advertising small theater screenings. See Justin Timberlake and Mila Kunis warped into odd-looking, bulbous humanoids, Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life reduced to a vaguely Constructivist motif of an attempted Brad Pitt, and Harry Potter looking more like Voldemort than Voldemort. Behold!


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[...] the self-deprecating domain of the Russian blogosphere that brought you incredibly bootleg movie posters, we present: the horrors from the LiveJournal community “Dedicated to Maniac Psycho [...]

these are amazing! great really. it's kinda lame that you label them as 'awful', they're way more interesting than the original ones. do you also think polish posters are crap as well?

So what does this tell us other than than that in some parts of Russia it is cheaper to hire an artist than to buy a poster? And what's wrong with that? The cinema saves and the artist makes some money - and Western poseurs can enjoy a good sneer. And the Dark Knight poster is indeed fantastic.

Are you kidding me? The Dark Knight one is fantastic.

Some of them look kind of nice, like the Bridget Jones one. Weren't old Hollywood movie poster also hand painted? Much better than these ones though...especially the Shrek one...

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