Vengeance (1968)

One of my favourite spaghetti Westerns, this smashing Richard Harrison vehicle is still lacking a DVD release (even though 4Front put it out on VHS here twenty years ago). It was hard getting a good scan of the poster but I managed it and the rest was fairly simple. Quite proud of this one.

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Royal Space Force - Wings of Honneamise (1987)

Another one where the source material made it more of a challenge; so much of the promotional art for the original film was quite abstract and media releases since have featured a whole hotch-potch. The front cover was eventually taken from (I think) the Chinese Blu-Ray but overall I consider this one a bit of a placeholder until I find some artwork that really sums up the film.

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Pickup on South Street (1953)

Optimum can be funny about DVD covers; most of their vintage stuff looks great with the standalone ethos I really like, original artwork and so on. But every now and then they just use stills and blocks of primary colour, as per the original sleeve for Sam Fuller's classic. This was a fun one to do as there were a couple of really nice old posters for the film that were easy to use.

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Nikita (1990)

Luc Besson's second best film. Sadly the UK release was saddled with two things I really can't stand - being part of an incomplete "collection" and an uninspired still front cover. The expressionistic French poster did a better job with the aforementioned still now on the back and filtered to match the front a little better.

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Journey into Fear (1943)

The maybe-directed-by-Orson-Welles-but-probably-not minor classic. The US posters were all rather dull efforts for the time, dominated by billings, so a major fudge of a French version was needed. Quite happy with this one when there were so few options available, though.

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D.O.A. (1950)

Public domain films are a double-edged sword; they're cheap and even free depending on where you look but any retail release will have corners cut, most just using poor stills. This one has one of the original posters on the front with a Swedish version cannibalised for the back, all slapped on the Optimum template because I really like Optimum.

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Dead Man (1995)

I've no idea what the R2 release of this even looks like but the R1 version I have is a bit of a mess, so out came the old trusty Optimum template.

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Les Diaboliques (1955)

One of the greatest films ever made, Clouzot's classic is generally lumbered with dull covers. UK licencees C'est La Vie got using the majestic poster on the front cover right but got just about everything else wrong. Switching it to the ever-useful Optimum template was a start.

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Mulholland Drive (2001)

The usually reliable Optimum did a lovely series of 2-disc Lynch special editions a few years ago; sadly they all used the ultimate wear-and-tear combo of digipaks with an acetate slipcase. Not only did these fray and scratch respectively within minutes of purchase but they look really nasty on shelves to boot. So here's Mulholland Drive done in a visually similar style but for a standard double case.

 

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Repulsion (1965)

My favourite Polanski, but the UK release has a boring montage cover when the original poster was terrific.

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