Thomas Hodge of The Dude Designs (which he established in 2009) is a leading figure in the welcome resurgence of the old-school film poster art style. Thomas’ work can be seen adorning posters for such films as HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN and WOULD YOU RATHER. The posters I have chosen to share with you are wonderfully in-your-face artworks that all feature monsters, cyborgs, tentacles, zombies and so on. Well, of course they do – this is the Monster Zone, after all!
Get ready to salivate over these beauties…
FILM POSTERS
A classic monster’s-hands-reaching-out-to-the-viewer horror poster design for a movie about a family that goes ice fishing and encounters a creature from the depths! Love the ‘bloody’ title lettering!
Wow! I really love this one! It’s stonkingly good!
Lots of stuff to look at in this poster. Niiiiiiiice!
I like the emphasis put on that drooling, featureless visage!
This poster’s retro typography is great!
Thomas gave Wolfcop a Dirty Harry pose with the biggest possible magnum thrusting out of the picture (because the original tagline was “Dirty Harry… But hairier”.)
The main poster art for the sequel, ANOTHER WOLFCOP, has Wolfcop thrusting a beer can at us this time! This poster’s so full of detail!
This version was produced super quick for the first screening of the movie at Fantasia. It’s really fun how it parodies Stallone’s COBRA poster design!
Fox commissioned Thomas to create a ‘just for fun’ mash-up piece to promote their new film VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN online, asking Thomas to basically redo Mel Brooks’ YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN poster.
I really like how this one is dripping in pulpy atmosphere
This is a wrestling-mutant-zombie film. Great!
Poster art for a short film based on the Stephen King story of the same name
Alien abductions and homicidal maniacs in a 80s horror homage!
This zombie horror-comedy provided Thomas with his first chance to illustrate a full on comedy visual
DVD/BLU-RAY COVERS
The cover art for the 4K Vinegar Syndrome release of FROM BEYOND. This illustration sums up the Lovecraftian fleshiness of the story very effectively!
Very cool artwork for the MVD release of SPLIT SECOND. Sweet!
This is a slight reworking of the artwork Thomas did for Scream Factory, to be used for Studio Canal’s Europe-wide Blu-ray release of THEY LIVE
Blu-ray art for Vinegar Syndrome’s release of the fun creature feature TICKS
The back of the TICKS box art features Clint Howard’s weed farmer character! Awesome!
Cover art for a Blu-ray release of an obscure 80s shot-on-video flick
The final of three designs Thomas did for Vinegar Syndrome’s HOME MADE HORRORS VOL. 1 box set. I love the fact that he decided to focus on one of the stop-motion monsters featured in WINTERBEAST… as it rips off a rock climber’s head!
Another one of the three designs Thomas did for Vinegar Syndrome’s HOME MADE HORRORS VOL. 1 Blu-ray box set
Cover art for Vinegar Syndrome’s Blu-ray re-release of this weird cult film. That’s a very cooooool retro title lock-up
This artwork was produced for the German Special Edition Blu-ray release
Artwork for the German Blu-ray release of this hyper-violent 1991 Hong Kong movie that’s loosely based on the Japanese manga ‘Riki-Oh’
The quite risqué artwork for the German special edition Blu-ray release of DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE
Blu-ray cover art for Kotch Media’s release of Richard Stanley’s very fine killer robot flick HARDWARE
Alternative artwork created by Thomas for the Vinegar Syndrome release of Hong Kong undead-in-a-shopping-mall horror-comedy BIO ZOMBIE. This was a limited edition slip for subscribers. It has a super-cool graphic design look!
DVD cover artwork for 88 Entertainment’s release of the Troma classic THE TOXIC AVENGER. It’s a green, slime-tastic cover that suits the subject matter very well
Here’s artwork that Thomas created for Arrow Video’s DVD box set FANTASTIC FACTORY, which comprised four films made by Brian Yuzna’s production company (the films are ARACHNID, FAUST, BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR and ROMASANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT). Thomas took a pulp pop art approach to the classic B movie poster look, and I think they turned out wonderfully…
ARACHNID is a well put together creature feature! The practical effects spider-monster in this flick is a great-lookin’ beast!
FAUST looks good in this illustration style
The way Jeffrey Combs is drawn here has something of a Richard Corben vibe to it
Thomas ensures that the artwork for ROMASANTA: THE WEREWOLF HUNT has the same pulpy pop art aesthetic as the other three covers in this set
You can check out Thomas Hodge’s Dude Designs Industries website here: https://thedudedesigns.com/?v=79cba1185463 There you will find that the website is separated into five sections; The Dude Designs (commercial design and illustration work), Dude Apparel (Thomas’ all new clothing label and store), Tom Hodge Art Prints (a store for all of his limited edition art prints), Filmography (which showcases Thomas’ work behind the camera) and Author (a section for his book releases that is coming soon).
Limited edition art print of Thomas’ FRANKENSTEIN CREATED BIKERS poster illustration
Finally, here are some private screen print commissions…
Very, very, very nice!THE MONSTER SQUAD – awesome!
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