Albert Kallis was a professional artist who designed many film posters for American International Pictures (AIP) releases in the 1950s. Kallis’ striking designs elevated the selling of exploitation movies to a new art form in itself. Indeed, AIP’s Sam Arkoff and James H. Nicholson would often have a poster designed first to pre-sell a movie to theatre owners before it even went into production.
Below are just some of the lurid posters that this prolific artist created; they have gone on to be representative of a time when movies could be sold to a potential audience eager for thrills by just an single image alone whilst going on to become key examples of American pop culture iconography in themselves.
In 1958, Kallis also co-founded the IHOP (International House of Pancakes) restaurant chain.
We are indebted to Monster Brains for inspiring this posting and for some of the images above.
