Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 4K)

[Werewolf by Night]

When did they remake PILLOW TALK with John Travolta in the Rock Hudson role?

And if I was Kelly LeBrock, I'd sue over that WEIRD SCIENCE cover.

[oldsheperd]

The King Kong one is kind of cool. That Apollo 13 cover is strangely awesome, but like in the way that The Room is awesome.

[domino harvey]

I don't understand how the only one whose penis we've seen is saddled with the smallest codpiece

[Ishmael]

I like how the person who drew the Charade cover turned Cary Grant into Edward G. Robinson.

[Gregory]

Wow. There's the aesthetic of "failing on purpose"

Spoiler

...and then there's misguided pop art concept that doesn't seem to have much of an idea what pop art was (awful liberties taken with color and screentone to make it look "old school"?) and failing by accident. It's annoying to see that people are constantly getting paid to make stuff like this.

[Feego]

I agree with oldsheperd about King Kong looking kind of cool. It's the only one that looks legitimately good outside of the "pop art" context, and I honestly wouldn't mind owning that one. I also kind of dig Psycho, except that it looks like Janet Leigh is running around naked in the rain rather than taking a shower.

[colinr0380]

So are Wet Hot American Summer, The Breakfast Club and Bridesmaids meant to be equated together due to their similar covers? Are they all representing the 'voices of a generation'?

I think King Kong, and maybe Lucy are the only really vaguely acceptable covers out of all of them but the fuzzy watercolour look of the Somewhere In Time, Pride & Prejudice, Sixteen Candles and Xanadu covers are particularly hideous. I presume the fuzzy look doesn't bode well for the image quality on the disc!

[Adam X]

Universal's been trying variations on this idea for years now, but this new line's particularly bad. There was another series of Twilight Time-esque covers but I couldn't find more than a couple, like this one for Psycho

[colinr0380]

I presume this is the same philosophy behind publishers re-printing books with flashier covers to appeal more to teenage boys or with romantic covers for women and so on. Or to build up a collector's market for people who like trading rare disc covers or something like that? I suppose its nice to try a different take on an established film once in a while and see what comes of it.

Or, if I'm being particularly cynical, to make it look to a casual browser as if a new Big Lebowski-style film has been released because the cover is different enough to confuse people just enough to get them to re-buy something they've already seen or own?

[zedz]

Stop throwing paint at Tippi Hedren! Aren't the birds bad enough?

[Lowry_Sam]

[Ashirg]

Artwork and color choice are from the original poster -

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[domino harvey]

Ugly then is still ugly now

[spectre]

Apologies if these have been posted before – but I've just been getting into Demy, and very, very briefly considered saving some money and buying the local Australian DVD releases of some of his films. And then I saw the covers.







$93 and one Criterion boxset later, I think you'll agree I made the right choice.

[manicsounds]

[domino harvey]

Hahahaha holy shit

[Cash Flagg]

Sink to new lows of design!

[Zot!]

I think my favorite piece of the design is the drop shadow, on whatever that is behind him (topographic map?). Apparently he's wafer thin, like Paper Mario.

[zedz]

Apologies if these have been posted before – but I've just been getting into Demy, and very, very briefly considered saving some money and buying the local Australian DVD releases of some of his films. And then I saw the covers.







$93 and one Criterion boxset later, I think you'll agree I made the right choice.

Though that cover for A Slightly Pregnant Man isn't as bad as the film!

[manicsounds]

[dda1996a]

To be perfectly honest I kind of enjoy those covers. The problem is I have no clue which violent cop it's talking about, but I kind of dig their b movie comic book dtyle

[Lemmy Caution]

Count me in on the Violent Cop cover too.

The other one a bit much in terms of color and mishmashery.
Still these are interesting and different than all the other same-same covers out there.

[domino harvey]

Team They Look Godawful

[Alphonse Tram]

Have people gone mad? These are outrageously bad, a high school art and design project.

[dda1996a]

I don't mind it as a cool film poster, but as the sole cover for a Blu ray yeah I guess it sucks. But I don't really mind it comic book style design