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There may have been a good idea behind this, way back before the beginning of the design process. But I doubt it.
There may have been a good idea behind this, way back before the beginning of the design process. But I doubt it.
Is that a corn kernel in under the title?
Or a flattened candy corn?
I get the thing with the ‘A’ running through the appropriate title words. But I don’t get the thing with the comic-look sweetcorn kernel over greyed-over waving-fields-of-corn background. Is the film in question ‘Field of Dreams?’ Don’t remember sweetcorn in that though…
*confused face*
Nope. ‘Tis about “The Cornfield People”. Internet Movie Database (IMDb) lists “The Cornfield People” as a Canadian movie released in Germany in 2001 about a paranormal investigator on the trial of a ruthless cult. IMDb believes it’s lost (which is what happens when you release a Canadian film in Germany with no knowledge of Deutsch or even a Canadian-German Phrase Guide).
No match on the title in Amazon Movies & TV. No match on the title in the Internet Movie Firearms Database (IMFDb). Probably no match in the Internet Movie Explosions Database (IMEDb) or Internet Movie Car Chase Database (IMCCDb). So it would be real obscure in USA.
Now does this book cover suggest to me the tale of a journalist looking into a lost film about an investigator looking into a killer cult, with the journalist uncovering a real cult? It suggests to me an agriculture report on the effect of grey mold on hybrid corn.
Maybe that’s the “designer’s” sense of shame. If you watch it long enough it will grow large enough to consume the entire cover.
Posren: It’s pretty cool how that strip along the edge mimics the optical soundtrack stripe of a film that has slipped off the sprockets and is about to spew out of the projector into a tangled pile on the floor while the other half goes flap-flap-flap.