Phantom City Creative's Halloween-Friendly Movie Posters

UPDATE (10/20): All of the posters have sold out through Mondo, but Phantom City Creative has put their own copies up for sale through their online store. Go! Go! Go!

If, like me, you're a huge fan of Phantom City Creative, then you were probably very excited to find out about tomorrow's Mondo releases. Not one, not two, nope, not even three, but FOUR Phantom City Creative posters will be dropping on Thursday (8/20). These aren't just four random prints though, there's a through-line here - they're all horror films, and they're all more than appropriate for the coming Halloween.

The Burning Movie Poster
Phantom City Creative
24" x 36"
$45 - Limited to 250

It's downright upsetting. Right when I decided on my favorite Phantom City Creative poster of all time (in full disclosure it was their Gate print), they go ahead and one-up themselves by releasing another bundle of new designs. Phantom City Creative's The Burning is now my absolute favorite print of theirs forever and ever (or until they release their next few). I've never seen the film, but you can bet that I'll be streaming it on Instant Watch later this week. The Burning artwork does an amazing job at conveying a simple plot (burned man murders campers with hedge clippers) with some straightforward, but still very clever design work. Our artistically rendered homicidal burn victim speaks to one of the many things I like most about Phantom City: their work is able to effortlessly walk the line between being incredibly realistic and frightening, but also giving off a playful and retro vibe with worn down textures and an obvious love for the illustrated B movie posters of the 60s, 70s and 80s (then again, who doesn't love those?). Fun fact: the Drafthouse screening of The Burning was initially intended be part of an outdoor camping themed presentation, but was unfortunately cancelled. I guess that fact was actually kind of sad. Never mind, fun fact retracted. Phantom City Creative's The Burning print will be available tomorrow (10/20) at a random time through Mondo. The print measures 24" x 36" is limited to an edition of 250 and will cost $45. Be sure to follow @MondoNews for the exact drop details and visit phantomcitycreative.com to see more of the Phantom City portfolio.

Sleepaway Camp Movie Poster
Phantom City Creative
24" x 36"
$45 - Limited to 200

Eesh. I'm two for two. I've also never seen Sleepaway Camp, but it's instantly clear what era this slasher came from (i.e., the era that most cult slasher films came from, the 80s) by feasting your eyes on Phantom City Creative's design. There's lots of nice touches here, from the creases that speak of a much loved, much deteriorated and much folded one sheet, to the square boxes that house the faces of the film's victims and and possibly misunderstood murderer (again, I haven't seen the film so I'm just guessing here). The folks at Phantom City Creative explain what they were going for with this print (brutally ransacked from phantomcitycreative.com):

"With this poster we didn’t want to do the obvious thing and focus on the infamous twist ending as the focus. Instead we focused on making a poster that felt like it came right out of the era."

Phantom City Creative's Sleepaway Camp movie poster will be available through Mondo at a random time tomorrow (10/20). The poster measures 24" x 36", costs $45 and is limited to an edition of 200. As is always the case, you'll need to follow @MondoNews if you want to get this poster the minute it goes on sale (and they pretty much always sell out). I'd also recommend checking out Phantom City Creative's website, signing up for their newsletter (scroll to the bottom of their homepage) and following them @PhantomCityCrtv.

Trick 'R Treat Movie Poster (Regular)
Phantom City Creative
24" x 36"
$45 - Limited to 225

Trick 'R Treat Movie Poster (Variant)
Phantom City Creative
24" x 36"
$65 - Limited to 90

Finally! A movie I've seen! There's not nearly enough horror anthologies out there, or at least good horror anthologies, so loving this film was a pretty easy thing to do. In my opinion these are now the definitive Trick 'R Treat posters that all other Trick 'R Treat posters shall be measured against. Phantom City Creative took an essential element of the film, the Halloween setting, and used Halloween masks to represent the major players. These false faces work perfectly, both literally and abstractly, because every character in the movie is hiding at least one dark, usually fatal, secret. Another less important reason I really enjoy the Trick posters is because they're so drastically different from The Burning and Sleepaway Camp designs. Phantom City Creative has shown that they can change it up time and time again, and as stated earlier, they seem to be continually one-upping themselves along the way. The Phantom City crew talks about their love of the film (abducted from the Phantom City Creative website):

"Aside from John Carpenter’s classic Halloween, no other film captures the spirit of the Halloween season quite like Michael Dougherty’s criminally underrated and under-seen Trick ‘R Treat. So when Mondo asked us to create a poster for it, we jumped at the chance to honour the film by depicting the film’s colourful characters as vintage Halloween masks."

The Trick 'R Treat posters will be available tomorrow (10/20) through Mondo, with both prints measuring 24" x 36". While the regular version costs $45 and is limited to 225, the variant costs $65 and is limited to 90 (still a pretty great price). Be sure to follow @MondoNews for all the details. And to learn more about the folks behind these amazing prints head over to phantomcitycreative.com and follow @PhantomCityCrtv on Twitter. Good luck boils and ghouls!