The Amazing Movie Posters of Thailand – Dark Side Book by Neil Pettigrew and Phil Jablon

The Amazing Movie Posters of Thailand book is a landmark publication celebrating one of the most extraordinary and overlooked chapters in global cinema art. Spanning Thailand’s golden age of movie poster design — the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s — this first-of-its-kind volume showcases hundreds of rarely seen, hand-painted posters created to promote films both famous and obscure.

Produced by a small group of immensely talented yet largely unrecognised artists, these posters reinterpret Hollywood, European, and Asian cinema through a uniquely bold, exaggerated, and often provocative visual language. The result is artwork that is at once sensational, surreal, and utterly unforgettable.

Authors Neil Pettigrew and Phil Jablon have spent many years researching this little-known area of movie history, tracking down original artwork across Southeast Asia and meeting the artists themselves. Their work brings together not only the posters, but also artist biographies, historical context, and insightful commentary, offering a deep exploration of the entire oeuvre.

Across more than 300 pages, the book covers an astonishing range of films and genres — from Jaws to Star Wars, Rambo to Bruce Lee, Halloween to A Nightmare on Elm Street, James Bond to The Flying Witch Woman. There are also dedicated chapters on Hammer horror, adult cinema, and films that are decidedly not for the squeamish.

Lavish, controversial, and endlessly fascinating, The Amazing Movie Posters of Thailand is an essential addition for collectors of movie posters, film books, exploitation cinema, and graphic art. It presents familiar films in ways you’ve never seen before and reveals a world of cinematic salesmanship few outside Thailand have ever encountered.

Perfect for:

• Movie poster collectors

• Film history enthusiasts

• Graphic art and illustration fans

• Cult, horror, and exploitation cinema collectors

Bold, indulgent, and visually arresting, this book is a celebration of cinema advertising as pure, unrestrained art.