giallo fever: Guess the film from the poster

Saturday 30 August 2008

It's one of those Polish posters, so unless you know the language it may be difficult :-)

The clue is that it's a giallo with either an animal and / or a number in its title.

Anonymous said...: It's Argento's CAT O' NINE TAILS!

To be honest I squinted and read Dario Argento and Karl Malden off the poster ;)

I'd never have got it otherwise, those Polish posters are pretty wild at times.; 30 August 2008 at 16:16:00 BST
Anonymous said...: Without squinting I'd have guessed "The bloodstained shadow".; 30 August 2008 at 17:26:00 BST
Anonymous said...: K- "Kat"
O- O'
9mm handgun- Nine
T- Tails; 30 August 2008 at 18:07:00 BST
Bosnuk said...: This is too easy. Though it's quite strange that Argento movies had theatrical release in socialist Poland.
Anyways, classic Polish posters are always different from others. My personal favourite - poster for John Carpenter's Starman:
http://weirdposters.blogspot.com/2008/06/starman-1984-usa_30.html; 30 August 2008 at 20:00:00 BST
K H Brown said...: Thanks for the link to your blog Bosnuk - always good to find sites with posters.

As you say the Polish posters had their own style, very different from those of other countries. There used to be a shop in town here that sold reproductions of them, though I never got any. If they had had cult films I probably would have...; 30 August 2008 at 21:08:00 BST