Original Cult Movie Posters

Cult movie posters represent some of the most visually inventive and culturally loaded objects in cinema collecting — artwork created to sell films that existed outside mainstream Hollywood and marketed with a ferocity that made up in aggression what it lacked in budget. Roger Corman AIP productions define one end of the spectrum: the monster movies, biker films, and beach party pictures of the late 1950s and 1960s that essentially invented the American youth market for cinema — with early appearances from Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, and Bruce Dern before any of them were stars. At the other end sit the midnight-circuit films of the 1970s and early 1980s: John Waters' Baltimore grotesques with Divine, the transgressive Italian horror of Dario Argento, and the grindhouse double features that gave blaxploitation its audience. Japanese B2 posters for American cult films are a particular strength of this collection — the restrained graphic aesthetic of Japanese commercial printing transformed even the most disreputable material into striking collector objects. Find original paper from this era and you're looking at items that circulated in quantities of the low hundreds. Browse our Exploitation, Horror, and Science Fiction collections for adjacent territory. Cult cinema produced some of the most unhinged advertising art in the history of the medium — posters that had to do the entire selling job in a single confrontational image — and original examples in good condition have become genuinely difficult to source. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.