The Most Hilariously Ill-Fitting Movie Posters From Around the World

Our condolences to any Blockbuster customers who thought that Kramer vs. Kramer would be a perfect pick for family movie night.

The art of the movie poster is one of those underappreciated mediums that has been largely diminished in the last 10 years of generic, hyper-corporate cover art that gives potential audience members little more impression of a film beyond the floating heads of its stars staring in different directions. Long gone are the days when moody, dramatic drawings of Humphrey Bogart and his femme fatale adorned cinemas and drew in audiences with evocative images and hyperbolic taglines. Today, the walls of most movie theaters are about as enticing as the decorations at the dentist’s office for how bland, cut-and-pasted and A.I.-esque “now playing” posters have become.

So, when you flip through this hilarious thread about all of the most ill-fitting and tonally mismatched movie posters from around the world, remember that they were all made by real artists with real visions who really should have watched David Cronenberg’s Crash before making the veritable Friends promo that advertised the erotic thriller. 

Here are the most mismatched movie posters for the films they represented, starting with….