Wow, I'd forgotten that one! When it came out, I was living in an upright town where concerned citizens drove it out of the theater in short order as an "abomination" and an affront to cherished American ideals. I mean, really, Santa Claus as a serial killer?
In 1981, a staffer on the same town's newspaper upheld the community's ideals in printed ads for "For Your Eyes Only", drawing a "tasteful" pair of shorts over the skimpy bikini bottoms worn by the woman on the poster.
Good thing those folks saved American entertainment from a slide into tacky and lurid excess 30+ years ago, or who knows where we'd be today.
Yeah, I remember that, on both counts. I don't remember Silent Night Deadly Night ever playing in my town. The thing is, Tales from the Crypt had already had a killer Santa Claus back in the 1970s.
I can't believe I forgot a couple of 5 anniversaries, since Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla was the 20th anniversary Godzilla movie.
Now I wish I'd saved one of those newspaper ads. Years later I realized the FYEO poster sparked something of a controversy and several papers took the same approach. In fact maybe my town's paper just used a "family friendly" version of the artwork that was distributed around the country.
In a way it was a savvy marketing move. So much attention went to the poster that three different models entered competing claims that their legs were the ones in the image. Turns out they used the legs from one model and the hand of another (wearing a distinctive ring that she based her claims on). Also, they may have deliberately gone for controversy because they had the model wear the bikini bottoms backwards, to show more skin. Anyway it made an impression, as quite a few other movie posters have paid "homage" with lookalike designs, included but in no way limited to "Transporter 2" and "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
Wow, I know way too much trivia about a poster I don't even consider one of the better ones in the series.
"You were right again, Batman. We might have been killed."
"Or worse. Let's go..."
Weird thing is I got a Johnny Lightning car of one of the vehicles from For Your Eyes Only. It featured a "James Bond 007" over the model's posterior in the mini poster in with the car. The text and background went down to her thighs.
I forgot the Muppet Movie is turning 40 this years.
On the pakistani movie poster Melinas shorts were not as risque and longer , the water skiing girl on Jaws 2 poster was also in bathing suit instead of a bikini
The art on the italian movie posters were pretty liberal , def not pc today