TVTA is pleased to present a selection of movie magazine covers and adverts featuring the talents of Daryl Hannah, Clint Eastwood, Anthony Perkins and Robert Englund among others.
Content is from 1980s editions of L’Ecran Fantastique, Starfix, Mad Movies and Spotlight magazines, as published in France at the time. The only films I haven’t seen from the titles shown are The Clan of the Cave Bear; Star Knight; Raw Deal and Monster in the Closet. The Daryl Hannah image on the cover of L’Ecran Fantastique N° 69 is just wonderful, and seems to be the same image as used for the movie posters for The Clan of the Cave Bear.
I also love the cover showing Anthony Perkins in his role as Norman Bates in Psycho 3 (for which he made his debut as a director), and the poster for Short Circuit. The Monster in the Closet poster is just hilarious fun!
Do you have any favourite images here?
Below: Star Trek Spotlight Special; Star Knight; Spotlight Magazine; Mannequin; Masters of the Universe; Raw Deal; Monster in the Closet; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Mad Movies; Short Circuit.
Star Trek. 
Sunset Video, Star Knight. 
Spotlight Magazine. 
Mannequin. 
Masters of the Universe. 
Raw Deal. 
Monster in the Closet. 
Journey to the Center of the Earth.
As always, thanks for looking 🙂
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Seeing “Short Circuit” was a bit of a choker personally. It was one of my mum’s favourite films, at least she used to quote lines from it. The robot voice pronounced squeeze as sk-leez, when my mum used to hug me goodbye she’d be giving me a skleez 🥲
Thank you for the reminder and these posters, nice trip down memory lane 🙂👍
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Thanks Steve. Nice story about your mum. It was a treat for me to see these posters too, a good trip down memory lane for sure!
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What a great selection! To be honest, Mannequin was a pretty disturbing movie for me to watch as a kid. Fun fact, years later, I tutored a kid in German and his dad, the psychiatrist, had this odd hobby of doing up old mannequins. That whole mansion was full of them. Creepy!
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Love it! Imagine a mansion fill of the things 😨 I too was a little freaked out by that film. A few years later I worked at a French Polishing factory, and one of the directors there had a sideline in fashion clothing. In one of the store rooms there was about 60 old mannequins just standing there in the darkness. Creepy, yes, just like your story!
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It sounds funny when you read about it 🙂 nobody should be in a position like that. Shivers
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Nah, lost in the years…
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Shame. Same here, mate. Lost a good deal of artwork over the years and moving.
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Oh man, I used to be captivated by the Daryl Hannah cover; I can’t even begin to tell you how many times I’ve drawn it…👍
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It’s a phenomenal cover isn’t it, makeup, style, hair, colours, image – the lot. I will def see the movie as soon as I can, did you see it? Maybe you could share some of your sketches one day if you still have them?
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I’m watching a new French comedy about the insanity of the pandemic, “Stuck Together “. It so on point like only the French can do in comedy!!
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Haven’t seen it yet. It’s got Dany Boon in, and most things he’s in are good.
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I think you should. It’s been awhile since I watched such a good film.
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It’s the first time I’ve seen that picture and the first thing that popped into my head was “I really want to paint that”. It’s been a fair while since I’ve done any portraiture so perhaps I should use that to kick it off again.
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You should do it! It’s such a striking image of Daryl Hannah in that role, and on par with her Pris character in Blade Runner. Still haven’t seen the Cave Bear film yet, but it’s on my to-watch list for sure.
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I love the first cover 😍😍😍
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It’s my favourite too.
Now I want to see the film 😎
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Lots of memories here, good and bad! I shall be sticking to showers for the next few weeks. You know why…🛁😨😁
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😨Yikes, Chris, I know… bathtime = Freddy, but showers = Psycho! Best to have a quick swill at the sink (as my nan used to say) 🙂
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At least the shower has a door, not a curtain. ‘Quick swill’ another good old expression, much used during our battle with the drought a few years ago!
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Awesome magazine covers, especially those Fantastique one’s!
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Cheer, Paul. Was a treat picking up these old magazines to add here. Agree, awesome covers 😎
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Hi there, another great selection – though some of the publishing dates (the years) are beginning to scare me, reminding me I’m getting old. BUT I have seen Raw Deal and have the the novelisation as well and I can say both are very close to each other. RD is a good film IMO considering the doubters and shade Schwarzenegger had early in his career – so might be worth you finding a copy.
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Thanks, FT. Will check out Raw Deal when I see it next on the film packages I have.
Just read a review of a Queensryche album re-released from 1990 (which in my mind still seems recent lol), but had to check myself when realising it was 30 years ago… so I know what you mean about getting old!
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