Plenty of famous movies have had posters with strange designs, art, or just plain bad photoshops, however, there is another realm of bad posters that go so far past visually unappealing that they circle back up to hilarious. These posters have a bonus attribute of being for low-budget films that have remained underseen, at least due in some part to their posters.
Many of these posters feel like the designer in charge went with the first draft, while others feel like an unfortunate amount of work probably went into the eventual final disaster. Rest assured if these ten hilarious posters win you over, these are real films that be watched today.
Chairman Of The Board
Maybe the most baffling thing on this list is that at one point in time, prop comedian Carrot Top was so popular that he got to lead a comedy about a surfer trying to make it as a typical office worker. It sounds like a fake movie that would be joked about in a better movie, and the poster doesn’t do much to dissuade that assumption. The funniest part of this poster has got to be the work computer floating in the ocean that is somehow destroying this office building, as it sports a screen that simply says “stock projections.”
CyberDog
Full disclosure, this whole list could have been insane dog movies, for which there is a seemingly endless supply of horrible posters. This one takes the cake, not because of the super cool, sunglasses-wearing dog that is flexing his human jointed arm, or because of a sad Judd Nelson scientist. No, it is here because where is the rest of that kid’s body? At first glance, the poster would have us believe he is lying in a way in which his body is inside the doghouse, which is ridiculous. Upon further examination, it is clear that from that angle that is impossible, which means his body is lost in a void, never to return to him (poorly photoshopped through the ground.)
A Gnome Named Gnorm
Imagine the meeting where a filmmaker pitched a teen cop movie, but then doubled down on it by making the teen cop’s partner a gnome. Now take a second to accept that it was made into a movie. This poster has it all. A fake beach backdrop, a cool cop with a leather jacket and tie, and a weirdly proportioned hellspawn chilling with its arms crossed. Then, after forcing a viewer to take all of this in, the poster has the audacity throw in a fun tagline that says “This cop’s got a new partner and a lot of explaining to do.” He sure does, but so does whoever put together this artwork.
Blonde And Blonder
This “playful” poster almost comes off as eerie with how surreal it looks. Maybe the hardest one to believe wasn’t made intentionally bad, the first immediate detail worth mentioning is that Denise Richards isn’t Blonde on the poster. Dirty blonde, maybe, but it’s a stretch.
The rest of the details are just poor photoshops running rampant. There’s the extremely thin car, the cartoon golf bag, the fake smoke, and of course, Pamela Anderson’s head, which is so badly proportioned it raises the theory that both actresses just had their heads put onto the same body.
Munchie
“Okay, now look up and pretend you can see Munchie flying in on top of a pizza. Perfect!” This is the only imaginable scenario that gets the stunned, creepy smile the actress on this poster conveys. Meanwhile, the actor is giving a sly grin like Munchie is nothing new to him. Then there’s Munchie himself. The leather jacket-wearing pizza rider. Munchie is a terrifying creature that looks far scarier than intended for what is assumed to be a fun family film about a cool monster that loves to party. Munchie is somehow even more horrifying to look at in the actual movie.
My Ghost Dog
Just to be clear, the low-resolution look of the poster is actually in the image the designer chose. In the canon of this poster, the mother and son can see the angelic ghost dog watching over them, which is inherently not how ghosts work.
Respect is due to the poster designer for putting their own “G” rating onto it, despite it clearly not being an official one from the MPAA. Lastly, it would be a crime to talk about the poster without also giving props to the tagline “a bark from beyond…”
Baby Ghost
Apparently, low-resolution ghost posters are a trend. This time our halo-sporting dog is swapped for a nasty green baby. Again, the people can see the ghost clear as day. The ghost baby itself looks less like a baby, and much more like some kind of small floating Godzilla. Shoutout to the dad on this poster for being the only one who looks remotely like someone who just saw an otherworldly spirit baby flying through the air.
Going Overboard
Try showing this to someone and telling them it is Adam Sandler’s first movie and they will surely think it isn’t real. Sandler is standing in an inhumanly contorted positions, with a neck and head that don’t look like they belong on that body. Then there are the two models standing on tiptoes doing their best to look like they are diving despite the magazine-looking backdrop of an ocean.
In fact, the whole poster somehow looks like it was stitched together by cutting and pasting pictures and paper into a collage. Hopefully, Sandler’s first movie was also the poster designer’s first movie. I guess we all have to start somewhere.
My Uncle: The Alien
If you stare at this poster long enough, it starts to stare back. The contrast of the horrific, wrinkly alien juxtaposed with the radical teens is tonal whiplash that seems like it can only be achieved by accident. Only after finding the inner strength to get past the initial shock of the poster can the real questions be asked.
Is that hideous monster the teens’ uncle? Why are they in front of The White House? Is it the president? Is that what cell phones used to look like? Unfortunately for everyone, the only way to find the answers is to actually watch the movie.
Little Bigfoot
There is so much to unpack here. Obviously, Little Bigfoot himself is horrifying, somehow looking like a baby and an adult simultaneously, with eyes that deserve all ten spots on this list, but the real hilarity comes from the children behind him.
The girl on the poster couldn’t care less about the legendary creature in front of her, instead focused on giving a stick to her dog. The boy on the poster is looking at Little Bigfoot, but he isn’t doing much to sell a viewer on the movie. He is actually giving him the exact look anyone that happens across this movie would.
