bad art Archives - Desperate Living

A pair of 1974 AIP shockers get a UK cinema release with the ugliest movie poster of all time.

A look at the horrible anonymity of the modern book cover.

The public domain e-book publisher that challenges our perceptions of just what appropriate cover art for a classic novel might be.

A collection of heavy metal LPs where the artwork failed to live up to the ambition of the band.

A collection of movie posters that promised patrons something rather different than the film that they would eventually see.

A selection of ludicrous and entirely unsuitable VHS artwork for films that would either disappoint or horrify anyone attracted by these covers.

A series of spectacularly bad restorations by Spanish amateurs is creating a new art movement.

A visual study of the incredibly strange world of the independently-produced Christian LP.