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Mind-Bending French Posters For Cult Scifi And Horror Movies

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The English-language posters for movies like A Clockwork Orange and Planet of the Apes may be seared into your brain, but they’ve got nothing on these often psychedelic French film posters.

The Mysterious Island, 1929

(via Benito Movie Poster)

King Kong, 1933

(via Heritage Auctions)

It Came from Outer Space, 1953, printed in the early 1960s

(via Heritage Auctions)

The Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1955

(via Heritage Auctions)

Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956), designed by A. Poucel

(via Astounding Beyond Belief)

Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 1956

(via Mean Sheets)

The Land Unknown, 1957

(via Mean Sheets)

Quatermass II: Enemy from Space, 1957

(via Heritage Auctions)

House on Haunted Hill (1959)

(via Heritage Auctions)

Eyes Without a Face, 1960

(via Heritage Auctions)

The Curse of the Werewolf, 1961

(via Heritage Auctions)

Dinosaurus!, 1961

(via Heritage Auctions)

First Men in the Moon, 1964

(via Heritage Auctions)

Superman Le Diabolique, 1967

(via Mean Sheets)

Planet of the Apes, 1968

(via Heritage Auctions)

Beneath the Planet of the Apes, 1970

(via Heritage Auctions)

The Clockwork Orange, 1971

(via Heritage Auctions)

Sleeper, 1974

(via Heritage Auctions)

Rollerball, 1975

(via Heritage Auctions)

Futureworld, 1976

(via Heritage Auctions)

Stalker, 1981, by Jean-Michael Folon

(via Mean Sheets)

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