’Baba Yaga’ (Italy/France, 1973) 
 
Every year around this time, Westgate Gallery‘s poster concierge extraordinaire Christian McLaughlin drastically cuts prices for his annual Black Xmas 50% Off Sale.

Anyway, my pal McLaughlin, a novelist and TV/movie writer and producer based in Los Angeles, is the maven of mavens when it comes to this sort of thing. You couldn’t even begin to stock a store like his if you didn’t know exactly what you were looking for in the first place, and if you want a quick (not to mention rather visceral) idea of his level of deep expertise—and what a great eye he’s got—then take a gander at his world-beating selection of Italian giallo posters. Christian is what I call a “sophisticate.”

He’s got a carefully curated cult poster collection on offer that is second to none. His home is a shrine to lurid giallo, 70s XXX and any and every midnight movie classic you can shake a stick at. But why would you want to shake a stick at a bunch of movie posters to begin with? That would be pointless. And stupid.

The Westgate Gallery’s Black Christmas 50% off sale sees every item in stock at—you guessed it—50% off the (already reasonable) normal price. All you have to do is enter the discount code “BlackXmas2020” at checkout and your tab will be magically cut in half.

The selection below is only a very tiny sliver of what’s for sale at Westgategallery.com.
 

’Cinderella 2000’ (USA, 1977)
 

’Dead Alive’ (New Zealand, 1992)
 

’Exhausted’ (USA, 1981)
 

’Femmes de Sade’ (USA, 1976)
 

’Man Who Fell To Earth’ (USA/UK, 1976)
 
 
’Russ Meyer Video Festival’ (Japan, 2004)
 

’Phantom of the Paradise’ (USA, 1974)
 

’Pink Flamingos/Female Trouble’ (Baltimore, 1972-74)
 

’Suspiria’ (Italy, 1977)
 

’Taste the Blood of Dracula’ (UK, 1970)
 

’Thunderbuns’ (USA, 1976)
 

’Valley of the Dolls’ (USA, 1967)
 

’Violation of the Bitch’ (Spain, 1978)