If you are a child of the 1970s or ’80s, you were lucky enough to grow up in the golden age of Hollywood movie posters — a time before PhotoShop and AI, when key art (as it’s known within the trade) really was art.

Back then, poster designs weren’t computer generated, but hand-painted by professionals whose interpretation of a sight-unseen film allowed our imaginations to start making the movie in our heads from the moment we first caught sight of the poster. And once we had seen the films, the best posters reinforced the feeling we’d experienced when watching them. That’s why so many of them found their way to our bedroom walls.

Here, I’m talking about legends like Bob Peak (“Apocalypse Now”), Roger Castel (“Jaws”), David Grove (“Something Wicked This Way Comes”) and my personal favorit

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