Original Gremlins Movie Posters

Gremlins movie posters — Gremlins (1984) — Joe Dante's horror-comedy produced by Steven Spielberg, starring Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates alongside the Mogwai Gizmo and the destructive gremlins he spawns — produced one of the most beloved and most collected campaign images of the mid-1980s: Gizmo's large eyes in the darkness, communicating both cuteness and imminent menace. Find original Gremlins theatrical materials from the 1984 Warner Bros. campaign — one of the most commercially successful films of the summer that also gave us Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Ghostbusters, and Purple Rain. The original one-sheet design, with its deliberate play on expectations between Gizmo the adorable and the gremlins who will destroy a small town, is a model of campaign art that uses mystery rather than revelation. Lobby card sets for Gremlins offer more complete visual documentation of the film's practical creature effects — among the most impressive of the pre-CGI era — while one-sheets and inserts provide the cleaner collecting format. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990), Joe Dante's even stranger sequel, produced its own campaign materials of considerable wit. Gremlins and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom — both released in summer 1984 and both produced by Spielberg — directly contributed to the creation of the PG-13 rating, as parents objected to content in PG-rated films targeting young audiences. This cultural context gives the campaign materials a specific historical significance as documents of the moment Hollywood's rating system was forced to change. Original theatrical one-sheets from the 1984 Warner Bros. campaign in fine condition are now increasingly difficult to locate. Browse alongside our Horror and Steven Spielberg pages. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.