Showing posts with label dvd doppelgangers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dvd doppelgangers. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 26, 2016

DVD Doppelgängers: Intruders, House Of Afflictions, Restoration And Cabin In The Woods

I was looking around in my local video store a few days ago (yes, video stores still exist, and yes, I still occasionally browse them), and saw this DVD of Intruders. Hmm… I've never heard of this movie, but something about that cover seems familiar. I've seen that "stark, black & white crumbling house with something unsavory going on beneath" motif somewhere before… but where?

Was it House Of Afflictions? It's got the black and white and red all over color scheme. The crumbling house is there as well, along with the terrifying thing beneath. But no, I don't think this was it. I've never seen this cover before either.

How about Restoration, a film by Zack Ward, aka Scut Farkus of A Christmas Story? Black, white and red palette? Check! Old house? Check! Scary thing below? Check!

No, not this one. It fulfills all the requirements, but once again, I've never seen it before.

Ah, there it is! Joss Whedon's The Cabin In The Woods! In addition to deconstructing the "Haunted Cabin" movie genre and turning it on its ear, it was also apparently very influential in the world of cover design. Everyone and their dog is aping this cover, hoping that some of Cabin's cache rubs off on their subpar direct to video dreck.

Tuesday, June 23, 2015

DVD Doppelgängers: Prometheus Vs. Prometheus Trap Vs. Radio Free Albemuth

Recently I was browsing through my local video store (yes, they still exist, and yes, I still go there) and saw this.

Something about this cover seems awfully familiar. I can't quite put my finger on where I might have seen it before though...

Ah. Now I remember.

The designer of the Prometheus Trap cover couldn't have swiped the original more if he tried. It's like he xeroxed the original  cover art and scribbled the world "trap" on it.

Just look at them next to one another! Look at 'em, I say! Both have the same blue color scheme, the exact same washed out, desaturated space-suited leads above the title (their heads are even the same size!), the same crackling energy background and the same black strip in the middle, behind the title. 

But wait, there's more! Amazingly, both feature spaceships tilted at the exact same angle, orbiting planets with identically curved horizons, complete with moons above them. 

I've seen a lot of swiped cover designs in the past few years, but this one is hands down the most blatant. There's no way in hell this was a coincidence. 

There are two reasons why studios do this. One is what I call "Inferred Marketing." A studio makes their advertising look exactly like that of a more popular and expensive film, hoping to evoke an association in the mind of the consumer. They figure in the unlikely event that someone really liked Prometheus, they'll see Prometheus Trap on the shelf and assume it's more of the same, and be compelled to pick it up.

The second reason is "Confusion Marketing." By making their film's cover nearly indistinguishable from that of the original, they hope easily confused consumers will pick up their knock off, thinking it's the real thing.

I also saw this cover in the store, which is pretty darned close to Prometheus as well. Here though the designer took the bold step of angling the spaceship or whatever that is in the opposite direction. Inspired!

Oddly enough even though these two knockoffs are doing their absolute best to ape the look of the Prometheus cover, their plots are completely different.

Prometheus Trap is about a spaceship crew who investigate a derelict ship and become trapped in a repeating time loop.

Radio Free Albemuth has even less to do with Prometheus, as it's a strange, fictionalized autobiography of scifi author Philip K. Dick, set in an alternate reality America.

By the way, get a load of Radio's cast there on the cover. It stars Scott Wilson, aka Hershel of The Walking Dead, looking a good twenty years younger than he did on that show (even though the film was made in 2010). It also stars one Alanis Morissette. Now that's ironic (see what I did there)!

There's something, I don't know... sleazy about all this. I feel like you shouldn't have to trick and bamboozle consumers into watching your movie.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

DVD Doppelgängers: Seinfeld Vs. Blast From The Past

I was browsing Amazon today and noticed this.

Glad to see the Seinfeld logo's still getting work. He's settled down a bit since the early 1990s— he's a lot more balanced and grounded than he was in his wild & wacky younger days. He's a bit paler than he used to be too, but that's fine. Good for him!

Thursday, April 30, 2015

DVD Doppelgängers: Zombieworld Vs. Zombieland

Last week I was in my local video store and saw this DVD of Zombieworld.

Something about this cover seems awfully familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on where I might have seen it before...


Ah. Now I remember.

There's no way you can convince me that this wasn't intentional. Go on, try it. Try and convince me. You can't do it, I say. Both feature the same decimated, smoking Earth floating in a formless void, and both have nearly identical titles superimposed. But then in a burst of creative energy, the Zombieworld designer added a severed, undead hand clutching his globe. Inventive!

The cover design is about the only thing the two films share though. Zombieland is a well-made horror-comedy in the style of Shaun Of The Dead, about four survivors of a zombie apocalypse.

Zombieworld, on the other hand, is a (very) low budget anthology. It features several short zombie films that are loosely strung together in a fake news broadcast format, including an anchorman who's been bitten and is himself slowly transforming. The shorts vary wildly in quality, and you'd be much better off watching ZombieLAND for the tenth time.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

This Week In Derivative DVD Covers

This is the cover for the soon to be released complete series box set of Sliders.

If you'll recall, Sliders was a 1990s TV series that told the story of a group of reluctant explorers who jumped from one parallel Earth to another, trying to get back home.Each week they'd travel through a dimensional vortex to an Earth that was different from ours in significant ways. They might encounter an Earth in which the Russians won the Cold War, or one inhabited by tribes of cannibals, or one in which women are socially dominant and men considered inferior.

It most definitely has nothing whatsoever to do with the Portal video game series. So why's the designer of the Sliders cover bending over backwards to make it look like it's Portal 3?

Didn't think I'd notice, did you, Sliders designers? Well I noticed. I noticed.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

DVD Doppelgängers: Night Crawlers Vs. House Of Fallen

A couple of days ago  I was in a video store and saw this Night Crawlers DVD.

Even though I've never seen the movie before, something about it seems awfully familiar. I can't quite figure out where I've seen it before...

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

Cheezus H. Rice, DVD cover designers! You're making this too easy for me! You're not even trying to hide your swipes anymore! 

I suppose in the interest of fairness, the designer of the Night Crawler cover did take the time to change the color of the creepy girl's red eyes and add a little symbol to her forehead. Oh, and some unconvincing, poorly drawn blood splatters to her fingernails. 

I'm betting the second he finished altering the creepy girl's image he leaned back in his chair, took a big swig of Jolt and congratulated himself on a job well done.

Thanks to my pal KW Monster for finding this week's DVD Doppelgangers!

Friday, September 19, 2014

DVD Doppelgängers: Dracula Season 1 vs. Blacula

Wow, did you know there was a Dracula TV series on NBC last year? I surely didn't! Boy, do I feel out of the loop. I suppose that's to be expected when you stop watching live TV, as I have. 

I definitely need to hire an intern here at Bob Canada's BlogWorld to help me keep up on current pop culture. Someone to watch all this crap so I don't have to.

Anyway, I noticed something as I was gazing at the DVD cover of Dracula Season 1 (the one and only season, apparently). Something besides the horrible kerning that makes the title look like the old "Dr. Acula" joke. There was something familiar about the cover image. Something I couldn't quite put my finger on...

Oh yeah. Now I remember. Looks like whoever designed the Dracula cover was a fan of the 1970s blaxploitation classic Blacula (Really, spellcheck? You don't flag "blaxploitation?").

Deadly vampire poised for attack on the left side? Check. Hapless female victim baring her supple, sensuous throat on the right? Big check. Mist-shrouded castle set against a gloomy sky in the background? Double check. If this cover wasn't "inspired" by Blacula, then I'll eat my hat.

By the way, most people dismiss Blacula as a piece of substandard drive-in movie trash. They are wrong. Blacula is a film classic!

The movie is greatly enhanced by the presence of William Marshall, who plays the title character. Marshall definitely elevates the material, and brings to it a much-needed touch of class. He gives the character, which could have been just a one-note joke, a quiet and powerful dignity. At 6' 5" he was an imposing figure with a deep, rich and powerful voice.

Believe it or not, Marshall was a classically trained stage actor who appeared in many Shakespearean plays. He was also an opera singer (!). 

TV viewers will most likely remember him as Dr. Richard Daystrom in The Ultimate Computer episode of the original Star Trek series. He was also the King Of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse in the 1990s. "Let the cartooooooons begin!"

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

DVD Doppelgangers: Dueling Devils!

Here we have the home video cover for Devil's Due, a sub-par found footage horror film that came out earlier this year.

And here is the home video cover for Devil's Mile. I don't know anything about this film, but I do know that the cover is absolutely nothing like the one for Devil's Due. Nope, nothing like it, I tell you.

The pale, ghastly face that's tilted at a 45 degree angle and set against a dark background is a totally new composition. And the red-rimmed, dead white eye? A stroke of original genius! Kudos to the designer who came up with this shockingly distinct and... WOOO! Sorry, I thought I could get through that blurb with a straight face, but I just couldn't.

C'mon, guys! You're not even trying to hide your laziness anymore. You're doing my mockery work for me!

You know, swiping a design is never recommended, but it's an especially bad idea when your cover is going to be shelved right smack next to the cover you're stealing!

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

DVD Doppelgängers: Alien Uprising Vs. Hancock

Last week I was in a video store and saw this DVD of Alien Uprising.

Something about this cover seems awfully familiar, but I can't quite put my finger on where I've seen it before...

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

Jesus, look at those two covers. They're virtually identical! The same extreme closeup filling the space, the same grizzled skin texture, even the same gold-lensed eye gear with a cityscape reflected in them. Hell, it would have been easier if the designer had just xeroxed the Hancock cover and called it a day.

There's no way you can convince me that this wasn't intentional. Go on, try it. Try and convince me. You can't do it, I say.

In addition to the swiped layout, I'm a bit puzzled by the title as well. The film concerns a group of friends whose night of partying is interrupted by extraterrestrials attacking the Earth. An uprising is an act of resistance or rebellion. Aliens coming from the sky is an invasion. Wouldn't Alien Invasion have made more sense? It's called a dictionary, guys. They're free all over the interwebs.

Also, that prominent "and Jean-Claude Van Damme" callout is a bit suspicious. I've not seen the film, but I'm betting this is one of those deals where they can only afford to hire a name actor for one day, and shoot all of his scenes in that short time. I'd be very surprised if he's in the film for more than twenty minutes, tops.

Thursday, October 11, 2012

DVD Doppelgängers" Age Of Dragons Vs. Wrath Of The Titans

I saw this SyFy Channel DVD in the store a couple days ago.

The cover reminds me of something, but I can't quite put my finger on what it could be...

Oh yeah. Now I remember.

The Age Of Dragons designer perfectly aped the beveled font used in Wrath Of The Titans. Cheezus, he even duplicated the extended angle on the letter "A!" To be fair, he did reverse it and extend it on the left side instead of the right.

Hilariously, Walmart had these two titles sitting right next to one another on the shelf. Right next to each other! Less than an inch apart. They're doing my job for me these days.

By the way, according to Amazon, Age Of Dragons is a fantasy-tinged retelling of Moby Dick, but with a white dragon instead of a whale. That actually sounds like a pretty cool idea, but it was produced by SyFy, so I think we all know better.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

DVD Doppelgängers: Burn After Reading Update!

Way back in 2010 I first posted about the apparent popularity of the Burn After Reading DVD cover, which spawned at least two blatant imitations of which I was aware.


Here's the cover to refresh your memory. For the record I do like the retro look of the design, with the off-kilter photo placement and the hand-lettered logo. It's definitely an homage to movie posters of the 1960s and a welcome change from the Photoshopped clones that infest current multiplexes.

Apparently I'm not the only one who likes it, as two years later it continues to inspire DVD cover designers.

I was in the video store today and saw this. I'm sure that the designer didn't intentionally steal the Burn After Reading design for this project. I'm betting it's just a coincidence that it's exactly the same in every measurable sense. The fact that the actors' names written across the top, the character photos laid out in an off-kilter grid, and the logo in the center in a retro font (hard to tell if it's truly hand-lettered or not, as none of the letters are repeated)... no doubt it all came about by pure chance. Including the same red background.

HAW! Had you going there, didn't I? Drew you right into my trap. There's no way in hell this was anything but an intentional swipe. Someone was definitely under the deadline gun, couldn't think of a good idea and just reworked the Burn cover, hoping I wouldn't notice and call them on it.

I also saw this. Not quite as blatant as the Let Go cover, but it definitely shares some design DNA with the Burn cover.

Friday, November 18, 2011

DVD Dopplegangers: Buried vs. Buried Alive

It's time for DVD Doppelgangers, where I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers of classic and popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

On the right is the 2010 movie Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds. On the left is the 2011 movie Buried Alive, starring no one you've ever heard of.

Usually when I find doppelgangers in the video store, it's only the covers that have been copied. The actual content is often only vaguely similar. Not so much this time. Here's the official plot synopsis (synopsises?) of the two films:

Buried:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

Buried Alive:
When a young man wakes up from a drug induced coma, he finds himself in a coffin, buried alive. With very few clues to go on, he must race the clock to solve the mystery and escape from his tomb.

Wow! I think the Doppelganger Bar has just reached a new all-time high! Not only has the cover been faithfully reproduced by Buried Alive, but so has the title and the actual plot!

Nice grammar there on the Buried Alive tagline too.

Also, take a good close look at that Buried Alive cover. Doesn't it look for all the world like a second person is holding the lighter in front of the protagonist's face? It is possible to hold your right hand like that, but it's incredibly awkward (try it and see). I don't understand why he's not just holding the lighter with his palm toward the camera.

Lastly, Buried Alive is apparently a very popular movie title, as I found out during my Google search for images.

Thursday, October 6, 2011

DVD Doppelgangers: .45 vs. La Femme Nikita

It's time for DVD Doppelgangers, where I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers of classic and popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

Tonight we have the 2006 movie .45 vs. the 1990 movie La Femme Nikita.

.45 stars Milla Jovovich in something beside a Resident Evil movie for a change, and is the story of "how obsession, addiction and abuse leads a young woman (Jovovich) to execute an elaborate plan of revenge"

La Femme Nikita is a highly influential French film that's spawned an Amercian remake (Point Of No Return) as well as 2, count 'em TWO different TV series (La Femme Nikta and Nikita). It's the story of "convicted felon Nikita, who instead of going to jail, is given a new identity and trained as a top secret spy/assassin."

As soon as I saw the .45 cover in the video store I immediately thought of Nikita. Both feature slender, leggy women in form-fitting short skirts and high heels, slumped against a wall and holding revolvers. They even have the same hairstyles and full pouty lips!

I will give credit where it's due though: the .45 designer, in a bolt of creativity from the blue, reversed the image of his heroin-chic female assassin. So now it can't be called a ripoff (that's a joke, son).

Friday, April 15, 2011

DVD Doppelgängers: The Human Centipede Fest

It's been a while since I did a DVD Doppelganger post, so let's get right to it!

First up we have DVD cover of the bizarre and disturbing The Human Centipede. It's the heartwarming tale of a retired doctor who specialized in separating conjoined twins, and has now decided he can best serve humanity by stitching people together. He does this by kidnapping three victims, er... I mean test subjects and sewing them together, butt to mouth. No, that's not a typo. He literally sews the mouth of Person #2 to the anus of Person #1, and so on. What he was attempting to prove by creating his "human centipede," I have no idea.

Note that the box says that the movie is "100% Medically Accurate." It is too, if by medically accurate you mean "far fetched" and "peppered the script with some terms pulled from Gray's Anatomy." 

It's a very twisted and disturbing film, and definitely not for everyone. I need to do a proper review of it one of these days.

Next we have the movie Last Breath. I know absolutely nothing about this movie, except that the marketing team is really, really hoping that you liked The Human Centipede so much that you'll automatically want to watch this one as well. It's got pretty much every element found in the Centipide cover: murky, indistinct figure lurking behind a translucent panel, hands pressed against the glass, searching for escape, and a monochromatic color scheme. Oh, and don't forget the off-kilter type treatment in the logo. Well done, Doppelgängers!

Finally we have VirusX. Again, I know nothing about this movie, but once again we've got some marketing people who want to remind you of a previous film you may have enjoyed, hoping to subliminally influence you. Yet again we have the vague figure behind a semi-opaque glass, lots of hands pressed against it, and the ever-present monochromatic color scheme. They even did the uneven font. Bravo guys! Come on down and accept your Doppy Award!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

DVD Doppelgangers: Riverworld vs. Avatar

Hey, it's been a while since we played DVD Doppelgangers, where I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers of popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

Tonight we have two very blue covers. On the left is the cover for the 2010 SyFy Channel made-for-TV Riverworld, based on the series of novels by Philip Jose Farmer. On the right is the cover for the highest grossing movie in the history of Earth, 2009's Avatar.

Let's see, the Riverworld cover features a big blue alien face, big colorful eyes and glowing facial markings. They even managed to copy the pouty lips! The Riverworld font is pretty similar to Avatar's as well. On the Doppelscale, I give this one an 85%!

This is actually SyFy Channel's second attempt at filming Riverworld. They first tried it back in 2003. Neither version managed to find much of an audience. I think the problem is that the premise is just too complicated. There are four very thick novels that comprise the Riverworld series, full of pages and pages of explanation and exposition. It's just too much info to try to shoehorn into a TV movie.

I have to admit I've never seen either TV movie, but I did read the novels back in college. Basically the story opens as every human being who ever lived on Earth, from cavemen to 21st century man, is simultaneously resurrected along the shores of a single 20 million mile long river on an alien planet. The story concerns a group of historical figures who band together to find out who built the Riverworld, and more importantly, why.

In the fourth book it's finally revealed that an alien race built the Riverworld to give humanity a second chance at discovering the good inside them and redeeming themselves, in order to move on to the next plane of existence. I remember finding this explanation extremely unsatisfying. I slogged my way through these books, eager to find out the secret behind the Riverworld, and it turned out to be some kind of anti-climactic New Age bushwah.

The aliens who built the Riverworld were called Ethicals, and although they didn't look human, I sure don't remember them being described in the books as blue Avatar-looking people. As I said, it's been a long time since I read them, so I supposed it's possible. The 2010 movie depicts them as blue, so I guess that was all the DVD cover designer needed to copy the cover of the highest grossing movie ever.

Saturday, May 29, 2010

DVD Doppelgangers 10: Hard Ride To Hell vs. Darg Me To Hell

It's time for another edition of DVD Doppelgangers, in which I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers and posters of popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

Today we have a pair of "Dueling Hell" covers. On the left is the 2010 movie Hard Ride To Hell. Haven't seen it and know nothing about it, but boy does that cover seem familiar.

On the right is the cover for the excellent 2009 movie Drag Me To Hell. If you've not seen it, I highly recommend it. I wrote up a review of it last year here.

So let's see how many elements Hard Ride cribbed from Drag Me. Flames of Hell and smokey background? Check. Screaming victim? Check. Demonic hands clutching at victim? Big check! "To Hell" in both titles? Check. I will give the designer credit where it's due-- in a burst of creativity, on his cover he inverted the composition so that the demonic hands are pushing the victim into Hell instead of pulling them down.

Friday, May 14, 2010

DVD Doppelgängers: Onechanbara Vs. Samurai Princess and Frankenstein Girl Vs. Vampire Girl

It's time for another edition of DVD Doppelgangers, in which I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers and posters of popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

Tonight we turn our gaze to the Far East, as we see that DVD Doppelgangers aren't just an American phenomenon. It happens in Japan as well. We'll also learn the meaning of the word "blatant."

First up is the 2008 movie Onechanbara. It's based on a popular video game that I've never heard of, and features a bikini-clad, zombie killing young woman looking coyly over her shoulder as she brandishes a couple of samurai swords.

Apparently the designer of cover of the 2009 movie Samurai Princess was such a fan of the Onechanbara cover that he or she copied it pretty much verbatim. Samurai Princess features a bikini-clad, robot killing young woman looking coyly over her shoulder as she brandishes a couple of samurai swords.

You probably won't be able to read the title, but the third entry is the poster for the 2009 movie Frankenstein Girl vs. Vampire Girl. That's Vampire Girl there on the cover. In a burst of originality, this cover features a school uniform-clad, monster killing young woman looking coyly over her shoulder as she brandishes a samurai sword.

I don't know anything about this movie, but with a title like Frankenstein Girl vs. Vampire Girl, I have got to see it.

Obviously the designers of these Japanese covers know what sells, and they clutch their tried and true formula like grim Death.

Monday, April 19, 2010

DVD Doppelgangers: Another Woman

I decided to tweak the format of DVD Doppelgangers a little and place the examples side by side instead of several vertical inches apart, something I should have done from the start. See, even DVD cover mockers make mistakes sometimes.

Anyhow, today's entry is Another Woman's Husband (2000) vs Wild Things (1998).

I'm pretty sure Another Woman's Husband is a Lifetime Channel movie, which explains why I've never heard of it. Despite the copycat covers, the two movies have absolutely nothing in common. It's the gripping tale of a woman trying to overcome her fear of water after witnessing her brother drown, while Wild Things is the story of a teacher accused of raping his student.

Another Woman's Husband successfully copies pretty much every element of Wold things; you've got your two sultry sirens peering seductively out of the water, the actor credits strung across the top, even a male figure at bottom center. They even copied the colored banner placement at the top! The only difference between the two is the placement of the title and the font. Kudos to the designer! You copied 80% of an earlier, better layout!

One more thing: On the Wild Things cover, I can't help but notice that Mr. Matt Dillon appears to be auditioning to be the new scoliosis poster child.

Thanks to my pal KW Monster for pointing out these covers to me!

Saturday, April 17, 2010

DVD Doppelgängers: New Moon Vs. Neowolf

It's time for another edition of America's Favorite New Game, DVD Doppelgangers, in which I call out art directors who deliberately copy DVD covers and posters of popular movies, hoping to fool the public into buying their knock-off version.

Tonight we have the 2010 movie Neowolf. It's the story of a struggling musician who has to choose between his career and his girlfriend. He ends up joining a band full of werewolves. Or something like that.

I know absolutely nothing about this movie, but according to IMDB the director was Alan Smithee. That tells me all I need to know and more. Mr. Smithee has had quite a career over the years, directing literally thousands of horrible movies.
  • Did You Know? Alan Smithee is the fictitious name that studios list as the director when a movie turns out so badly that the real director refuses to attach his name to the project. Any time you see "directed by Alan Smithee" in the opening credits, you'd be well advised to exit the theater in an orderly manner or turn off the television and back slowly but steadily away from it.
Now let's look at the theatrical poster for New Moon, which also just happens to feature teen werewolves. The Neowolf studio did an outstanding job of reproducing virtually ever facet of it.
  • Sepia toned color scheme? Check!
  • Three sexy teens with sultry stares, all dressed in black? Check!
  • Spooky forest setting? Check!
  • Yellow moon in the night sky above? Check!
  • The word "Neo" even means "new," for poop's sake! So really the title is New Wolf, which is miles away from New Moon.
Note that the Neowolf cover appears to either be a painting, or a heavily Photoshop-filtered photo. I have no idea why they tried that route.

Credit to the New Moon designer for at least knowing that werewolves prefer a full moon. The Neowolf werewolves have to settle for a paltry crescent moon.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

DVD Doppelgangers: Standing Still vs. American Pie

It's been a while since I've posted any DVD Doppelgangers, in which I call out deceptive studios and lazy designers who mimic more successful DVD covers in hopes of getting you to buy theirs.

Here we have 2005's Standing Still, the story of an alcoholic actor who reconnects with a group of his college friends at a wedding several years after graduation. So... not a teen sex comedy by any means. The cover reminds me of something, but I can't quite think of what...

Ah, now I remember. Standing Still is practically spraining a hamstring trying to look like the cover to American Pie.

It's got the same crowd of wacky people, topped by an amazingly identical logo. Everything about the Standing Still logo is identical. Same red color, same rectangular outline, same small word topping a horizontally stretched larger word. They even copied the scratchy "distressed" look. I will give credit where credit's due though-- in a burst of creative energy, the designer tilted this logo the opposite way of American Pie's. Bravo sir! Sheer genius!
 For the record, American Pie came out in the far off year of 1999. You remember 1999; that was back before the entire world went to hell. Incredibly there have been a whopping SIX sequels to this movie. Of course only the first three of them ever got anywhere near a theater. The remaining four went straight to home video. None of the original actors, save poor Eugene Levy, have been in the last four either. Apparently the American Pie name is the star.

Although I'm deservedly ragging on the Standing Still cover here, the American Pie one isn't without its sings. Take a look at the girl at the middle right of the cover. That's a pretty sorry example of Photoshopping there. She seems to be quite interested in something only she can see, some distance off screen. Not only was she nowhere near the rest of the cast during this photo shoot, I'm not even sure she was on the same continent. The red-headed girl next to her looks suspiciously plopped in as well, given that she's the only one not touching or overlapping someone else.


Thanks to my pal Keith for spotting this!
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