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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Four Sided Triangle

Mar 19th 2010 1:01PM By: John Gholson

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Hammer Films is best known for their gothic horror movies, but the British studio also made quite a few science-fiction films as well, including 1953's Four Sided Triangle. The story revolves around two childhood friends and their love for the same woman. As adults, they create a machine that can clone humans, which one of the two uses to create a replica of the girl they both have feelings for. I have yet to see the film, but the set-up sounds interesting. Would you create an android of your perfect woman if you could, even knowing that she wasn't really real?

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: C.H.O.M.P.S.

Mar 18th 2010 1:32PM By: John Gholson

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In Hanna-Barbera's first foray into live-action movies, a robot dog is created for home security purposes and then becomes the center of a wacky corporate espionage plot as a rival company tries to steal him. I like the very 1970's design work of the poster for C.H.O.M.P.S., despite the film being just as disposable as today's kids' flicks. Next time Hanna-Barbera tries to make a movie about a robot dog, I hope they just go ahead and do Dyno-Mutt. I'm surprised no one has attempted a C.H.O.M.P.S. remake yet.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Spider-Man 2 "Choice"

Mar 17th 2010 4:02PM By: John Gholson

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This is one of my favorite posters for a comic book movie, and I have it in a tube somewhere, awaiting framing. It reflects the active choice Peter Parker makes in Spider-Man 2, to maintain his Spider-Man identity as a means of helping others. It kind of makes me nostalgic now -- odd for a poster from just a few years ago. I don't think Spider-Man 3 was a proper farewell to that cast, and I would've liked to have seen one more adventure from Sam Raimi with Tobey Maguire in the costume. I don't think I'm alone here.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Star Trek - The Motion Picture

Mar 16th 2010 11:32AM By: John Gholson

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This is probably one of my all-time favorite movie posters, but I have mixed feelings about the film itself. No amount of rainbow colors on the poster can make me forget that Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a bit drab. J.J. Abrams' new Star Trek reboot was advertised with a poster that was black and white -- an unusual design move in modern movie posters. Do you think that might've been an intentional reversal of this poster's multi-colored array?

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Spacehunter in 3-D

Mar 15th 2010 9:03PM By: John Gholson

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This 1983 film isn't a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone in 3-D is a nice reminder of how far 3-D technology has come. The description on the poster sums up the movie nicely, and it bears a strong influence from both Star Wars and Mad Max, without being nearly as good as either one. Ultimately, it's just an interesting footnote in the checkered past of 3-D technology -- a creaky ancestor to modern day marvels like Avatar.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Brainscan

Mar 14th 2010 12:57PM By: John Gholson

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Some of the marketing for this film seemed to position T. Ryder Smith, playing the mysterious video game host "Trickster," as a wannabe successor to Robert Englund's Freddy Krueger. Brainscan, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, is a bit of a relic from the dying days of virtual reality-mania, in which a teen looking for the ultimate video game experience finds a game that causes him to black-out and apparently murder real people while he thinks he's playing. Have you ever lost hours of your life to a video game?

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Man-Made Monster

Mar 13th 2010 12:45PM By: John Gholson

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Do you ever wonder if the "mad scientist" movie will ever make a comeback? In Man-Made Monster (aka The Atomic Man), Lionell Atwill stars as the mad scientist who turns a likable circus performer (Lon Chaney Jr.) into a mindless human power station, with so much electricity coursing through his body that he can kill with one touch.

The mad scientist movie will make a bit of a return this Summer, when Warner Brothers releases Splice, starring Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley as geneticists with a dangerous experiment of their own.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: AVP2 Requiem

Mar 11th 2010 12:40PM By: John Gholson

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This Japanese poster for AVP2: Requiem uses a bold silhouette of the "Predator-ized" xenomorph to great effect, creating a very cool poster for a movie that most people found disappointing. Audiences didn't exactly flock to see the Predators fight the Aliens in a present-day, rural Colorado town. Fox has since decided to "reboot" both franchises, separate from one another.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Mothra

Mar 10th 2010 3:41PM By: John Gholson

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I love this poster for the American release of 1961's Mothra. In the first appearance of Toho's second most-recognizable monster after Godzilla, the exploitation of an uncharted island's people by greedy Japanese opportunists leads to the wrath of the island's sole protector -- a giant, irradiated moth. Mothra went on to appear in ten more Toho films, often as Godzilla's co-star. They're the Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan of destroying Tokyo.

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Sci-Fi Movie Poster of the Day: Metropolis

Mar 9th 2010 2:45PM By: John Gholson

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In the ground-breaking 1927 silent film by Fritz Lang, a female android leads the working class, forced to live underground, into a rebellion against the rarified upper class who live on the surface. The idea that the modern city rests on the backs of the working man is made evident In this vintage German poster.

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