Original The Trip Movie Posters

The Trip movie posters rank among the most visually extraordinary campaign materials of the American International Pictures exploitation cycle — Roger Corman's 1967 LSD film, written by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda, generated theatrical campaigns of psychedelic visual intensity that pushed the boundaries of commercial poster design as far as any Hollywood production of that decade. The film's subject matter demanded advertising art that was itself mind-altering in effect. Find original Trip theatrical paper from the AIP release. The US one-sheet deploys the kaleidoscopic colour fields, fragmented imagery, and typographic experimentation that characterised the psychedelic poster style at its commercial peak — simultaneously a film advertisement and a document of the counterculture aesthetic moment. Jack Nicholson's screenplay credit adds particular collector significance. The AIP exploitation poster tradition produced some of the most graphic and visually inventive campaign art in Hollywood history, operating with fewer commercial constraints than the major studios. Fine flat copies of The Trip one-sheet are now scarce — AIP's drive-in and second-run distribution model meant intensive poster use and high attrition, and surviving examples in collector-grade condition surface only occasionally in specialist markets — the drive-in exhibition model ensured intensive use that left very few surviving examples in genuinely fine and unfolded collector condition. Browse alongside our Roger Corman and horror collections. All Film/Art Gallery movie posters and items are authenticated originals.