Awesome Bootleg Movie Posters From 8 Countries
These hand-painted posters take great liberties with their Hollywood originals.
These hand-painted posters take great liberties with their Hollywood originals.
Sample lyric from Sister Deborah’s dancehall jam out of Ghana: “Uncle Obama, I like the size of your banana. Can I give it to my monkey? It will be so very happy!”
In Ghana it’s popular is to bury a loved one in a coffin that represents something about that person - a think he loved or his occupation. Ghana Coffin specializes in these custom ones, and they’re awesome.
Rollaball is a documentary-in-progress about an inspiring team of Ghanaian polio survivors who’re pioneering an extreme sports hybrid of skating and soccer.
If you want to go out in style, you need to head down to Ghana. Sad to think these masterpieces will just end up in the ground.
Have a happy and unnerving Presidents Day! Here are a bunch of papier-mache Obamas from all over the world.
And probably the worst movie. Or best, depending which way you look at it.
Here’s a trailer for an action movie called 2016 that makes pretty good use of low budget CGI. I watched this 2,016 times.
The kid from Ghana sounds like a funky xylophone. (via ohhaveyouseenthis.com) Watch Video ›
A young woman, apparently fainting from yesterday’s stifling heat, passed out at a New York City subway station and fell on the tracks. She was killed instantly by the oncoming train. The woman has since been identified as 21-year-old Fatoumata Binta Amina Diallo, a native of Ghana who was studying in Manhattan to become a doctor. Eyewitnesses say she briefly came to on the tracks and desperately tried to crawl to safety. Onlookers were horrified as she was cut in half by the train. View List ›
These movie posters were all created by artists in Ghana to promote traveling movie shows and sell tickets to bootleg screenings of various western and local movies. They range from quirky recreations of the original movies to WTF-inducing completely unrelated to the original content. (Via AwesomeRobo!) View List ›
A long time ago in countries far, far away, these Star Wars movie posters were hung. Apparently West Africa is a big fan of the television movie, “Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.” View List ›