Italian movie poster for ‘Profondo rosso’ for sale at Westgate Gallery
 
Every year around this time, Westgate Gallery‘s poster concierge extraordinaire Christian McLaughlin drastically cuts prices for his annual Cruel Summer 50% Off Sale. Why that’s almost half off, even…

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 silly!

The Westgate Gallery’s Cruel Summer 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 “CRUEL2019” at checkout and your tab will be magically cut in half.
 

’The Pit’ aka ‘Teddy’ (Canada, 1981)
 

‘Andy Warhol’s Dracula’ poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

Rare Japanese ‘Sisters’ poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

‘Pets’ poster for sale 50% off at Westgate Gallery
 

Jess Franco’s ‘Lorna the Exorcist’ (France, 1976)
 

’Invasion of the Love Drones’ (USA, 1977)
 

‘Torso,’ US 1-sheet poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

Italian ‘Desperate Living’ poster
 

’Prison Girls’  (1972)  Original US 1 sheet. Director: Tom DeSimone
 

’Reform School Girls’ (1986)  Original US 1 sheet. Director: Tom DeSimone
 

’Prison Babies’ (1973) Original US 1 sheet
 

A nicely creepy image for Roman Polanski’s ‘The Tenant’ (France, 1976)
 

’Witchcraft ‘70’ (Italy, 1970)
 

‘Polyester,’ UK quad poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

The extremely rare ‘Night Tide’ poster, via Westgate Gallery
 

’Torture Garden’ (UK, 1967)
 
 

‘Teenage Surfer Girls’
 

‘Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak’
 

‘Between the Cheeks’ from the notorious Dark Bros.
 

‘Calore in Corpo’: Obscure Italian porno from 1987, but one of THE best surreal poster porn art masterworks!
 

 

Italian 4F poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

Italian 2F poster for sale at Westgate Gallery
 

‘Seduction of Amy’
 

‘Sexual Kung Fu in Hong Kong’
 

‘Sex Erection’ AKA ‘Cheating Couples’
 

‘Voglie Erotiche di una Porno Pizzaiola’ AKA ‘Hot & Saucy Pizza Girls’
 

‘Sex Freaks’
 

‘A Girl’s Best Friend’—that’s supposed to be Ron Jeremy if you couldn’t tell…
 

‘Exhausted’
 

‘Femme ou Demon’ AKA ‘Through the Looking Glass’
 

‘Le Goditrici’ AKA ‘Les Jouisseuses.’ The English translation would be ‘The Enjoyers’
 

‘Long Jeanne Silver’ has a very special talent. Can you guess what that might be?
 

‘Dracula Sucks’—I wonder what this is about?