Big Trouble In Little China — 1986

Archive note

Japanese catalogue-style promotional material for John Carpenter's cult action film, repackaged as a 1970s-inflected design object. Features Kurt Russell and the green-faced sorcerer David Lo Pan in split composition, flanked by minimal stills from the narrative: neon signage, ornamental talismans, the Pork Chop Express storefront. A film that oscillated between box office indifference and underground canonization, here rendered as imaginary period ephemera—as if Carpenter's genre collision had been marketed through the visual language of a decade it did not inhabit.