There's been a lot of pre-release hype going on for Grindhouse, the Robert
Rodriguez / Quentin Tarantino double feature coming April 6. So it's fitting for
a movie that imitates B movies from back in the day, where the poster was
usually better than the movie, that Entertainment Weekly had Rodriguez and
Tarantino pick their favorite posters.

Tarantino of course picked the Pam Grier starrer Coffy, and the sick Swedish
revenge film They Call Her One Eye, but he also picked posters that had the
great hand drawn art we don't see anymore, like Dark of the Sun (what an amazing
billboard it must have made on Hollywood Boulevard), and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad,
Mad World (with a classic illustration from Mad Magazine's Jack Davis).

Rodriguez's choices are more mainstream, but no less cool, as well as iconic.
The first Evil Dead with a rave from Stephen King. The original Dawn of the Dead
with its famous tag-line, "When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk
the earth." Escape From New York, with the severed head of the Statue of Liberty
laying in the streets. The polished jewel air brushed art of The Road Warrior.

Check out all their favorite poster picks at Entertainment Weekly's website, and
TwitchGuru's tribute to the classic posters of yesteryear right here:

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20015648,00.html

http://www.twitchguru.com/2006/01/17/adventures_in_the_poster_trade/