My local multiplex cinema is good for three things - it is less than 10 minutes drive away; it has some of the cheapest tickets in town; and they have a bunch of cool movie poster collages on the wall outside the theatres.
Like every other multiplex, they have the posters for all the new releases (although they are usually digital screens, which I hate because a poster will grab your attention and then switch away, just as you take a closer look just to see who is in it, or to just appreciate the poster art).
But they also have these things that are ripped-up collages, made up of old movie posters from decades ago.
There is usually some kind of vague theme - there are 70s and 80s ones, and one devoted to New Zealand films. They're all the usual suspects. Classics like Ghostbusters and the Life of Brian and The Shining and Jaws, and....
And...
Is that Deadly Blessing?
Fuck me, is that Alvin Purple?!?
I'm tempted to ask about the artist who created them, and why they chose absolutely nobody's favourite Wes Craven movie, or an Australian sex comedy that nobody has watched since 1973 to sit beside the usual cinematic canon.
But maybe it's better to let that mystery be, and just enjoy the incongruity of it all. And hell, maybe it's worth checking out Deadly Blessing again. Somebody remembers it.
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