Monday, November 5, 2018

Impossibly-Cool Cover Art: The Other Side of Madness

He's dead now, so this isn't in bad taste.  Besides, nobody liked the guy anyhow.

After the infamous Sharon Tate Murder, lots of people wanted to make a buck.  This gave us serious stuff- like Helter Skelter- and less serious stuff- like Snuff.

Lying somewhere in the middle is this half-Documentary, half-narrative Film made while the Trial was still going on!

How'd they sell it?
That's...very busy, but also very interesting.

Like the last one of these, they lay it on real thick and dump several text boxes on you!  It would take a good 2-3 minutes to read everything on this!

That said, I can see the appeal, especially in 1971 when this came out.

Here's how it originally-looked...
The biggest change it obvious, no?  Otherwise, it is mostly touch-up and contrast.

I didn't overdo it, did I?

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