I Sense... A Presence
We'll start with a🍸n easy one. Big, fat, iconic clue in the middle there🍌...
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Answer: Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Lightsabre! Course it was. Next...
Fog Of War
Another easy one. Look for🔥 big familiar shapes and colou♊rs.
Answer: Full Metal Jacket (1987)
You got the hat, right? Course you did.
I Spy...
Sometimes, though, shapes aren't enough. In that case you're going to hav🍰e to study the text real hard. Just make sure you destroy it once you're done...
Answer: Burn After Reading (2008)
Do 𒁃a Brad-sty☂le chest-pump dance if you got that one.
You've got red on you
That's definitely a g🐎un, but wh🎃at can the splashes of red mean?
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Answer: The Deer Hunter (1978)
Well done if you guessed Bobby's iconic headb༺and and Russian roulette revolver.
Name up in lights
It's not a giant elephant. Promise.
Answer: All That Jazz (1979)
Instead it's t꧅he fizzing neon lights of Bob ꧂Fosse's frantic stage drama.
Do I ever what? Where?
Stairs, a hat, some writing. Not a lot toꦉ go on...
Answer: The French Connection (1971)
Altogether now: "Ever💫 pick your feet in Poughkeepsie?"
Body blow
The toughest one yet - it'll b💝e murder guessing this right.
These posters are the fine work of John Taylor. They're available to buy as prints from .
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Answer: Anatomy Of A Murder
Fractured orange and yel👍low squares are all that identify this Otto Preminger crime d🍬rama.
Ashes to ashes
The slant, that font... Bꦺut there's somethiꦓng missing.
Answer: The Evil Dead (1981)
Oh yeah! We're missin⛦g a terrified woman being 𓂃pulled into the earth by demonic hands.
Say cheese!
Not much 🅘detail here, but it's worth zooming right in.
Answer: Blow-Up (1966)
Congrats if you got that - did꧋ the hyphen give Anontioni's swinging London mystery away?
Hate the game
But what game is this?
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Answer: The Hustler (1961)
It'✅s nine-ball pool, of course, and Fast Eddieജ's chalking up...
Damned if you do...
Military silhouettes - a dog tag, a medal. Where have you seen that irreverant type-se😼tting before?
Answer: Catch-22 (1970)
It's Mike Nichols' classic WW2 farce, Catch-22.
Compelled much?
If you're strugglingౠ with this one then may God ha♋ve mercy on your soul...
These posters are the fine work of John Taylor. They're available to buy as prints from .
See more at John's Film The Blanks website .
Answer: The Exorcist (1973)
The brilliant post🐬er for William Friedkin's supernatural horror is super-recognisable even in blob form.
But seriously...
Stylish, minimal, 🍸dark - which recent blockbuster is this a poster foꦬr?
Answer: The Dark Knight (2008)
It's Heath's Joker from 2008's mammoth The Dark Knight🐭. Look closely and you can even make out the Warners badge on the abstract.
What's the rumpus?
Stripes, brown, and a crown. Easy!
Answer: Where The Wild Things Are (2009)
Did you spot Max's king ꦦof all Wild T💮hings head-gear?
Every dog...
Alright, alright - two coloured boxes might not be enough for this one. So here'ಌs a clue: there's also𒀰 a gun in the picture. Got it?
These posters are the fine work of John Taylor. They're available to buy as prints from .
See more at John's Film The Blanks website .
Answer: Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
That gun belo🅠nging to A🦩l Pacino, screamy hold-up guy extraordinaire in Sidney Lumet's heist classic.
Such a user
There's a def🌳inite ꧅sci-fi touch to this dark image.
Answer: Tron (1982)
It's tiny ✅electro-hero Tron! Bathed in some kind of data laser, holding an info disc, of courseꦺ.
Great white
Hmmm what's this, tꦛhen? Clue: not the upcoming film version of Horace Goes Skiing.
Answer: Downhill Racer (1969)
But it is the poster for early on-the-slopes Robert Redford drama, Downh😼ill Racer.
Seeing red
Hmmm. Loo𒀰ks space-ish again. Or like a 𒁏volcano going off in the dark. Guesses?
Answer: Total Recall (1990)
Yes, it's Arnie's mind-melting sci-fi adventure. Implanted memories are the only ꦿacceptable reason for not getting that one.
With a bump
They're looking more and more like covers for Spectrum games, aren't they? Try to ignore that and focus 🌄on potential clues - a hat, the sky, the earth...
Answer: The Man Who Fell To Earth (1976)
And they all belong to David Bowie: the hat on his head, the sky from which he fell⛎ and the earth on which he landed.
Not so mellow yellow
Not particularly hidden, this one - scare-fans, don't keep us ꦛin suspense...
Answer: Suspiria (1977)
It's the hauntꦐing poster for Dario Argento's chilling giallo, Suspiria.
Snap shot
A polaroid maybe? A snapshot of happier times?
Answer: Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
It's light-hearted divorce romp Krame🦄r vs. Kramer.
Spicing things up
Two moons over one lonely desert.
Answer: Dune (1984)
But no amount of moons could save David Lynch's ep🧜ic sci-fi꧅ folly.
Hit the road
Whose car is that burning a trail towards us?
Answer: Mad Max (1979)
It's Mad Max's Interceptor, gliding over th🐓e end-days tarmac. Good work if you got that one.🐟..
By the light of the moon
It might look like an inscrutable b🍰lock of basic shapes and colour, but t🦩his is also one of the most recognisable film posters of all time.
Answer: ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Surely you got that one - it's the huge moonlig✃ht-silhouetted bike ride on the marketing for blockbuster smash ET.
Life, capricious life
What ꩵseasonal classic is lurking beneath the squirts of colour on this blurred poster?
Answer: It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
It's Frank Capra's guaranteed Christmas tear-jerker, It💮's A Wonderful𒀰 Life.
No free rides
Nothing easy about this one, though that slant in the title text might give the game away.
Answer: Easy Rider (1969)
It's Dennis Hopp🌌er's seminal road movie and counter🏅-cultural masterpiece, Easy Rider.
Child's play
Not much to go on here - except maybe that ring, but it's hard to be sure exactly what that is .
Answer: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
Well done if you guessed the red ring was in fact Norville Barnes' multi-purpose leisure inve🤪ntion. You know, for kids.
Inner space
Striking graphic design, but what's the film behind the red mist an𒉰d dramatic f🎃igures?
Answer: Fantastic Voyage (1966)
The answer is Richard Fleischer'🎃s biological blo꧙ckbuster, Fantastic Voyage.
Top secret
A right old𓆉 jumble, this one. Wait a second - is that a bow-tie?
Answer: For Your Eyes Only (1981)
It is a bo🤪w-tie, and it belongs to none other that super-agent and suave dinner dresser, James Bond.
Hard target
Low on detail, but even the abജst💝ract poster hints at a concrete landscape and a shooter...
Answer: Get Carter (1971)
...𝓰which means it can't be anything other than Brit gangland classic, Get Carter.
If it's OK by them...
The last one is a toughie, so have this clue: yes, all that yellow stuff is sand...
Answer: Gunfight At The O.K. Corral (1957)
Big pat on the 🥀back if you got t🍸his one, the poster for Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas' big shout-out hit.
