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50 Hilarious Bootleg Movie Posters

Features
By Nathan Ditum published 9 June 2011

Hollywood hits reworked by amateurs

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The Spy Who Loved Me

The Spy Who Loved Me

The Bond which as we all remember features Peter Lorre battling a huge villainous goldfish.

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Suburban Commando

Suburban Commando

The trimmed horseshoe moustache is there, but how the heck are you planning to sell a Hulk Hogan movie without showing the mullet?

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Promising rather more chainsaw carnage than the film actually delivers...

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Alien

Alien

A universe populated entirely by cartoon David Camerons . Absolutely terrifying.

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Catwoman

Catwoman

Maybe if the original Halle Berry flop had featured a massive catdragon with a tongue like a waterslide then everything would have been OK.

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Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest

Children Of The Corn III: Urban Harvest

Wisely ignoring the whole 'urban harvest' thing in favour of loads of corn, a hungry head and some subtle graveyard imagery.

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Leprechaun

Leprechaun

No, not that one - although that also stars Warwick Davis - but the 1993 horror flop starring Jennifer Aniston, bumped from the poster here in favour of marrow and eyeballs.

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Big Trouble In Little China

Big Trouble In Little China

Is it just us or have Kurt Russell and Kim Cattrall swapped faces?

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Page 8 of 50
Starship Troopers 2

Starship Troopers 2

The promise of a nude scene that we never, ever want to see.

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Page 9 of 50
Species 3

Species 3

Hmm - the moon, man split in half, naked alien robo-lady mind-raping a bald dude. Yeah, that's pretty much Species 3.

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Hostel

Hostel

Utterly brutal - if off-message - 1980s slasher video-style reimagining of the torture porn hit.

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Page 11 of 50
Anaconda

Anaconda

In which a huge snake thrusts its tail between a woman's legs.

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Page 12 of 50
Anaconda 3

Anaconda 3

And Anaconda 3 - by which time the snake has learned how to fire LASERS.

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Page 13 of 50
Commando

Commando

There's no messing about with Arnie - stiff action figure pose, two giant guns, job done.

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Page 14 of 50
Krull

Krull

A very accurate copy of the original poster with one crucial, hilarious and totally classy difference. Can you spot it?

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Page 15 of 50
Dog Soldiers

Dog Soldiers

Infantile crayon skills aside, there's something to this hybrid-faced mandog image.

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Page 16 of 50
The Mummy Returns

The Mummy Returns

We've seen better drawings of The Rock - and he seems to be melting a little on the right - but thumbs up for pincer death and mess.

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Hellboy

Hellboy

Because why would you use the image of your iconic titular hero when you could use an armoured fishman and a pair of tentacles?

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The Matrix

The Matrix

We all remember the climactic fight where Neo takes on a bald ginger lad who looks like a German nightclubber, right?

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Page 19 of 50
Interview With The Vampire

Interview With The Vampire

Better known by its far more sensible title The Fierce Ghost Eats Human Region. Of course it does!

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Page 20 of 50
A Nightmare On Elm Street

A Nightmare On Elm Street

"Shhh!" says giant Freddy, who's green now.

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Page 21 of 50
The Transporter

The Transporter

In which Jason Statham is so powerful and masculine that his crotch erupts in sexflames.

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Page 22 of 50
Van Helsing

Van Helsing

Bleeding writing, giant throwing star - who cares about 'details' like Hugh Jackman only having one eye when the crucial stuff's been taken care of?

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Page 23 of 50
Planet Terror

Planet Terror

Ooh, you've almost got Rose McGowan down. Except the hair colour. And the fact this looks like a fitness video for amputee gun fetishists.

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Page 24 of 50
Gladiator

Gladiator

Yes, his legs are on fire, but that's a good Russell Crowe. Extra marks for the tiger snacking on manguts in the background too.

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Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Yeah! Hispanic Tom Cruise swimming through an orange cloud to wave a giant pistol in your face!

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Page 26 of 50
Cobra

Cobra

At least, we assume it's Cobra given the mullet and Stallone's casual discharge of an automatic weapon next to his face, but basically every one of his movies from the 1980s could be renamed Hard Men without it making any real difference.

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Deep Rising

Deep Rising

We were going to make fun of how tiny the people in the water are, but the central image of man-with-gun, while being terrible on a very basic level, captures the soul of Treat Williams in a profound way.

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Page 28 of 50
The Evil Dead

The Evil Dead

With a furious Al Pacino standing in for Bruce Campbell.

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Page 29 of 50
Evil Dead II

Evil Dead II

This time with Edward James Olmos apparently standing in for big Bruce.

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Page 30 of 50
AWOL

AWOL

Jean-Claude Van Damme kicks ass while looking suspiciously like a snooty Parisian waiter who's been called 'garcon' by tourists FOR THE LAST TIME.

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Page 31 of 50
The Sentinel

The Sentinel

OK, so that's Keifer Sutherland with a mouth like an unironed shirt, but that's more Michael Madsen with a weave than Michael Douglas, no matter with the star billing says.

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Page 32 of 50
Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Yeah! The chainsaw was at least as big as the car, and the little girl definitely had brown hair and there were insect monsters everywhere .

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Page 33 of 50
Cujo

Cujo

In which the canine villain of Stephen King's horror story is transformed from a snarling St Bernard into a lazy-eyed Springer spaniel with a massive body.

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Page 34 of 50
Bram Stoker's Dracula

Bram Stoker's Dracula

Who could forget the three-headed fire-breathing wolf in Francis Ford Coppola's vampire flick, which was also the size of the moon.

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Page 35 of 50
Sleepy Hollow

Sleepy Hollow

Clearly Johnny Depp's not selling any tickets in Ghana, so instead we get a big focus on the headless horseman. Who seems to have a spare head. And is a woman.

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Page 36 of 50
Ghost Ship

Ghost Ship

How to improve a mega-bland poster : sprinkle with drawings of bloodied, dismembered corpses until all available space is filled, print.

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Page 37 of 50
Hercules

Hercules

The 1983 version of Hercules which, if you've not seen it, features Lou Ferrigno making love to a tree and a fat kid wrestling with a pair of miniature diplodocuses.

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Page 38 of 50
Enter The Dragon

Enter The Dragon

A decent likeness of Bruce, here seemingly singing the intro to 'Kung Fu Fighting'.

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War

War

Very similar to the original, except now Statham looks more like a constipated cliff (fair enough) and that 'A' is massive.

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Page 40 of 50
Elektra

Elektra

"Oh, wow, Mrs Garner you're looking... wonderful."

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Page 41 of 50
Desperado

Desperado

Michael Jackson's remake of Robert Rodriguez's action indie was apparently only ever released in Africa.

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Page 42 of 50
Under Siege

Under Siege

Maybe the film would've been better if it had just been Steven Seagal wading into a paddling pool and shooting a toy boat.

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Page 43 of 50
The Mummy

The Mummy

The big sand-face mummy man is familiar - Imhotep's Platoon tribute is all new.

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Page 44 of 50
Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Terminator 2: Judgement Day

Half Salvador Dali, half terrifying luurve Terminator.

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Page 45 of 50
Ewoks: The Battle For Endor

Ewoks: The Battle For Endor

Actually a pretty straight rip of the real art for this Star Wars spin-off, but with added madness and terror, and a horrible frog monster.

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Page 46 of 50
Eight Legged Freaks

Eight Legged Freaks

Yes! This has everything the real posters didn't: the name is simplified to the powerful 'Spiders', there are spare limbs scattered all over, and David Arquette's head seems precariously balanced on his shoulders.

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Page 47 of 50
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

The artist's uncanny likeness of Mel Gibson is only matched by his thoroughly scientific grasp of proportion.

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Page 48 of 50
Mortal Kombat 3

Mortal Kombat 3

"Quick!" they say, distracting us from the fact there's no such film as Mortal Kombat 3, "Look up there!"

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Page 49 of 50
Slither

Slither

James Gunn's sex-flesh horror movie as represented by a tentacled monster, a girl with a penis on her head and, of course, a really happy labrador.

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