Any FunHouse artwork yet??

[SaviniFan]

Looks like a nice blu, already own the Arrow release though. Great transfer, cool poster, booklet, reversible sleeve, and decent extras.

Definitely going to buy the Terror Train blu though.

[startide]

Ugh. Those fold lines make them look like those bootlegs on ioffer!! If you're going to go back to throwback art, at least make it look professional. Not even old VHS covers had fold lines on them.

[Chomp]

Originally Posted by startide

Not even old VHS covers had fold lines on them.

Why the hell would they?

I’m pretty sure those fold lines in the artwork are to replicate a vintage 1-sheet. Most pre-80’s posters given to theaters came folded....hence the fold lines.

Folding a VHS makes no damn sense,... seriously can't believe I just read that.

[Dobby]

Originally Posted by startide

Ugh. Those fold lines make them look like those bootlegs on ioffer!! If you're going to go back to throwback art, at least make it look professional. Not even old VHS covers had fold lines on them.

Yay that is what i been saying too uggghh! I hate these covers with the stupid damage lines. So stupid and lame i humbly agree with all your points. There is fine line between posters and dvd bluray covers they are not posters!!!!!

[startide]

Originally Posted by Chomp

I’m pretty sure those fold lines in the artwork are to replicate a vintage 1-sheet. Most pre-80’s posters given to theaters came folded....hence the fold lines.

Posters are posters. DVD/BD covers are exactly that, covers.

Go and have a look at Code Red's posters for the Maria line on their website. I don't know if they're posters or mere digital replicas of posters, but the folds make sense (and either way, they're not on the DVD covers!). Faux fold lines on covers make none, replicating vintage era posters or not.

I get the idea, it just looks silly and unprofessional. Not to mention it severely detracts from the art in such a small format. You have to consider the scale when you do things like this, and I don't think they've done that.

TBH, I'm not fussed on the art on any of these Shout discs. I appreciate it, but they're pretty ugly and they remind me a lot of one of the Japanese Prom Night posters, which was this ugly, uncohesive looking collage of images from the film. And I thought the Photoshop jobs of the 90s were bad! Sometimes, original is just better.

[ronnie21]

i love the fold lines. awesome. makes it seem old..

[Chomp]

Fuck yeah Ron...

I bet people complaining about subtle fucking fold lines, are much more content on having ugly Photoshop covers perhaps?... Instead of having hand drawn works of art created by physically pushing a pen/pencil onto paper, they're much more satisfied with something as beautifully divine as this?:

GTFO.

I'm going to cut staride a little slack on this one only because I take it she's from a different country. Her comprehension on the whole purpose of nostalgia doesn't seem to be all there. But Christ, people fucking bitch about the dumbest shit sometimes...especially when the goddamn cover is reversible!

[ronnie21]

never understood why they had to change all or most of the cool artwork on vhs and dvds, I remember when they started doing that shit in summer of 1986.. They changed the artwork for Day of the dead from the cool poster to the yellow backgorund box with the main zombie on the front. Then a few weeks later they changed Nightmare on elm St part 2 's poster art with freddies face and blue background. I was pissed at both at the time since i liked the original posters so much...My friend told me that they do that to sell it more by making people think its a new movie, not a movie from years ago...

[ronnie21]

I wonder what the reverse artwork will be? since there are a few options, we have the famous one with the mouth drooling with teeth, or the one where the jack n box with the ax.. wonder which one they will go with..