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Remembering Eraserhead, and 20 More of the Best Movie Posters Ever
Austin Collings , October 24th, 2008 14:30

With the long-awaited release of David Lynch's masterpiece Eraserhead on DVD region 2, Austin Collings misses the enigma of the original as opitomised in its iconic poster. Plus, The Quietus collects the other 20 most enticing posters of all time.

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19. Kes

You can almost see the sunlight slicing in through the unclean school window, knifing through dust-particles; rare light shed on the hopelessness of certain teenage years. It’s all there in that poster; in the all-too-real melodrama of the tag-line, and Billy Caspar’s likeably scruffy outfit and stance. Anybody who doesn’t agree is inhuman…