Original Animal House Movie Posters

Animal House movie posters — National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) — John Landis's fraternity comedy starring John Belushi, Tim Matheson, Karen Allen, Tom Hulce, and Donald Sutherland — defined a genre and produced one of the most recognizable comedy campaigns of its decade. The original one-sheet, with Belushi in his "College" sweatshirt and the irreverent tagline, communicated the film's anarchic spirit with complete economy. Buy an original Animal House one-sheet and you're acquiring a piece of American popular culture that shaped the college comedy for the next four decades. The film was made for $3 million and grossed over $140 million, making it one of the most profitable films of 1978, and the promotional materials were produced to reflect that ambition: widely distributed, well printed, and designed to appeal to the broadest possible audience. John Belushi's face — simultaneously manic, aggrieved, and delighted — anchors the campaign across all formats. Lobby card sets and the insert format (14x36) offer different visual approaches to the same material and are now genuinely difficult to find in fine condition. International variants for this title are particularly interesting: the European market received a film that was essentially untranslatable to non-American cultural contexts, and the local campaign solutions are often creative responses to this challenge. Browse alongside our Blazing Saddles and The Blues Brothers pages for related American comedy material. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.