Deadly Prey Gallery: A traveling exhibition of artists from Ghana who paint DIY movie posters for their local theater.
A friend of mine helps out at a local artist co-op, and he invited me to come through to see the Deadly Prey exhibition. Deadly Prey Gallery. I wish I had snagged more photos of the artwork, but hopefully what I grabbed was interesting enough. Accuracy to the films being advertised did not appear to be a priority in many cases, such as the Dune poster featuring a Lynch worm, a Villeneuve worm, a Beetlejuice worm, and a tongue worm from Tremors. I'd crosspost this to some of the movies communities, but I don't know how :(
Other posters:
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I love the Beetlejuice crossover worm.
Random other worms aside, I'm actually surprised at how accurate the Dune poster is, relative to the other Ghanaian movie posters I've seen. I mean, some of those characters may be from a different version of the movie, but at least they are actual characters in the story. And there's very little gratuitous blood and random gunplay as well. On the whole, pretty accurate for a movie poster from Ghana.
This is awesome. The piece John Oliver did on Ghanaian movie posters was peak TV.
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Oh this is awesome! I had zero context for this event, and my friend who invited had barely any more. Apparently, all of the visual artists at the gallery (including the one who set up the exhibition) were attending a conference, and he was just filling in. This will hopefully answer several of the questions I have haha
Oh thats amazing. I wish I could have gone now that I am armed with knowledge on Ghanaian Movie Posters lol
Check out their website I linked in the body! Even if the show isn't coming to your city (and it very well might, it sounds like they're on the road frequently), they have hundreds of prints available for order if anything sparks your interest.
I love the Dune poster with a Beetlejuice worm.
Not to mention a Tremor eating Paul’s pug!
Nice collection!
I love homemade / homegrown movie posters for foreign films, and this reminds me to finish up a collection I'm trying to curate and get out the door.
The clockwork orange one....