{"id":6266,"date":"2015-02-01T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T10:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/?p=6266"},"modified":"2017-02-11T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T15:23:27","slug":"adults-only-well-maybe-rare-and-kitschy-exploitation-film-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.limitedruns.com\/blog\/movie\/adults-only-well-maybe-rare-and-kitschy-exploitation-film-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults Only (Well Maybe)
Rare and Kitschy Exploitation Film Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>What may have been considered risque or pornographic during a certain era may very easily become universally acceptable or even kitschy and cute by today’s standards. \u00a0We’ve run across a unique collection of rare hard to find, and yes, often kitschy exploitation \/ sexploitation movie posters, many of which have come from the Cozy Theatre located in sun-drenched Southern California. \u00a0The posters date from the 1950\u2019s, 1960\u2019s and the early 1970’s.\u00a0 Referred to as \u201cnudies\u201d back-in- the-day, many of the films used suggestive and campy titles like The Girl With Hungry Eyes<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or The Arousers<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and used taglines like “What\u2019s your Arousal Quotient? Take The Sexual Stimulation Test and See!”<\/em> or this tagline for the film Take Me Naked<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0“Raw Sex Begins With A Rainy Day On Skid Row!” <\/em>\u00a0The film Suburban Pagans<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0has my favorite tag line of the lot, “Stare at the Orgies\u2026Listen to the Screams of pleasure and Pain and try to imagine that these barbarians may live next door”<\/em>. \u00a0Not sure if anybody wants to live on that block. \u00a0On the other side of the spectrum, one of the cutest exploitation film poster,\u00a0The Ruined Bruin<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0includes the tag lines “Bearest Movie Yet Produced \u2026 in SUN-KISSED Eastman Color in the Girlsquecapade of the year!”<\/em><\/p>\n

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These posters have an interesting historical context as theatre owners would often censor many of the posters by covering up certain body parts with tape or black markers or changing the title to make the film more palpable to the audience, as in the poster for the German film,\u00a0Call Girls<\/strong><\/a>, which the theatre owner changed to\u00a0Call of the Flesh<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Sometimes the theater owners would cover up portions of a poster to make it look more explicit than the poster really was. \u00a0Many of the posters in this collection contain this type of censorship.\u00a0 While most other types of film posters would not be collectable if they were covered with tape or covered over with a marker, we feel that these posters are actually enhanced by the censorship as they are\"\"<\/a> illustrative of the public and social morals of the time.\u00a0 Through the poster art, we also see how much more daring the films became and how more explicit the art became from the 60\u2019s into the 70\u2019s.\u00a0 By the 1970\u2019s when X-Rated movies were attracting sizeable audiences, the posters were more sensational, glossy and slick, with the artwork on par with that of major Hollywood releases making many of these posters a lost forgotten art.<\/p>\n

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