Original Apostolof, Stephen Movie Posters

Stephen Apostolof movie posters document the drive-in exploitation filmmaker who worked with Ed Wood throughout the 1960s and 70s — a figure associated primarily with his long collaboration with Ed Wood Jr., whose screenplays he directed in the late 1960s and 1970s.

Apostolof, who often worked under the pseudonym A.C. Stephen, collaborated with Wood on a series of independently-financed exploitation films that occupy a specific territory in American cinema history: simultaneously sincere and technically limited, bearing the marks of Wood's distinctive screenplay style — his passionate engagement with transgressive subject matter, his indifference to conventional narrative logic, and his ability to generate films that transcend their production limitations through sheer enthusiasm. Films including Operation Redlight, It Takes One to Know One, and various other adult-oriented productions populate this corner of cinema history.

For collectors of exploitation cinema, cult film, and the Ed Wood universe, these theatrical materials represent primary documents of American underground filmmaking at its most unguarded. The graphic design of exploitation-era advertising carried its own visual vocabulary: bold, direct, and often more interesting as graphic objects than the films they advertised.

Find original theatrical prints from this distinctive exploitation era — rare survivals from the drive-in and grindhouse circuits of 1960s and 70s American underground cinema.

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