Movie posters that make you go, ‘Huh?’ You just don’t see movie posters like the ones on this site anymore. Which is for the best, because they (like the films they advertise) look pretty hackneyed and awful. Some of them, like Is Stalin Alive? and The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant, look more like tabloid stories than movies. A couple of the visuals, like Bigfoot savaging a biker gang, would be impressive if the corresponding movie had a decent budget, but then you have stuff like Boss N-gger, which can’t be salvaged, even as kitsch. Most intriguing, I think, is the Moby Dick film starring Mel Gibson, which could alternately have been called The Passion of the Ahab. The best tagline goes to The Whore’s Son, which goes with the heartbreaking slogan, “In spite of everything, she’s still your mom.” Via Spare Room. —Posted by David Kiefaber

October 16, 2007 in Kiefaber | Permalink

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The twist is that the whore is just the son with a wig on. It's a homage to 'Psycho'.

Posted by: felix | Oct 16, 2007 6:29:13 PM

That Bastard!

In spite of everything, she knows the truth.

Posted by: nancy | Oct 16, 2007 6:37:40 PM

What's "huh" about this poster? Looks pretty plain to me. Now if mom was getting fucked while the boy is in the living room, then fine, that would be compelling. Or maybe with a baby in a crib while the mother gets fucked. Or perhaps Ms. Whore stands in a corner looking for clients, next to his son.

Frankly, this doesn't belong in adfreak. It's too plain and boring.

Posted by: Bobby | Oct 17, 2007 11:55:16 AM

Bobby, meet Nancy. Nancy, meet Bobby.

Something tells me you two would make a lovely couple.

Posted by: Dr. Neil Clark Warren | Oct 17, 2007 12:22:04 PM

Nancy has recently been decoupled. What makes a know it all doctor think she needs just a coupling?

Hi Bobby, who is that jack ass, anyway?

Posted by: nancy | Oct 17, 2007 1:25:05 PM

Hey Bobby,

do i know you from a previous cyber life? I used to know a Roert who identified himself as the cheese.

Here are a few forums discussions I have participapted on since 1996-7 or sometime around there.

Compuserve
aol
usenet
microsoft (that's when they started following me)
slate
adpulp
adrants
design obseerver
adfreak

and some others.
Have we met before or has the homeland security or some other government, psychological, private corporation kept you under wraps too?

You may not want to know me. I am paranoid sufferer of designobservant psychosis or something.

Posted by: | Oct 17, 2007 4:49:32 PM

I don't go to all those blogs annonymous. So I doubt you know me.

As for the rest of you, this isn't so complicated. You either like the poster, or you don't like the poster. Jesus, can anyone here debate anything?

Posted by: Bobby | Oct 17, 2007 5:38:52 PM

is this adfreak or j-date?

Posted by: kate | Oct 19, 2007 12:17:15 AM

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