2024 IMP Awards - Not So Serious Awards
The Worst Facepalm Poster Award goes to Curse of the Sin Eater.
The Largest Tagline Font Award goes to A Sacrifice for making it easy to think that the movie's title is "Purify and Start Again".
The Best Alliteration in a Critics Blurb Award goes to Bad Faith for Kenneth Turan's "A crisp and crackling clarion call".
The Best Alliteration in a Tagline Award goes to The Beast Within for "Protector. Provider. Predator".
The Best Rebus Award goes
Boy Kills World for spelling out its title in symbol form. Runner up would be
Deadpool & Wolverine.
The Most Awkward Expression Award goes to Matt Damon for The Instigators.
The Dumbest Expression Award goes to Augustus Prew for his Players character poster.
The Worst Incorrect Reading of a Tagline goes to us for misreading the tagline for Ryan's World as "Go find the heroin, you!".
The "I Hope This Poster is to Scale" Award goes to Prey for giving us what seems to be a plane-eating lion.
The Angriest Bald Guy Award is a tie between Terry Crews in The Killer's Game and Djimon Hounsou in Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver .
The Best (or Worst) Easter-themed poster goes to The First Omen for its one bad egg poster.
The Most Annoying Expression Award goes to Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal.
The Worst Haircut Award goes to Henry Caville in his character poster for Argylle.
The Most Adorable Poster Award goes to the yonug Garfield in The Garfield Movie.
The Best Plot Hint in a Film's Title Award goes to AFRAID for highlighting the AI in red.
The Dead Graffiti Artist Award goes to whoever used a noisy spray paint can to tell everyone to stay quiet in the poster for A Quiet Place: Day One.
The Best Two Tone Poster Award goes to The Room Next Door for being almost entirely made up of reds and yellows.
The Best PG and R rated poster variations goes to Saturday Night.
The Most Confusing International Poster Award goes to Deadpool & Wolverine for the Thai poster showing our heroes in a boat gathering durian and other fruits.
The Dumbest Expression Award goes to the poster for Babes.
The Most Anonymous Character Poster Award goes to Cuckoo for telling us that The Hooded Woman is played by The Hooded Woman.
The Tagline Punctuation Award goes to In the Name Of... for having the first semicolon we remember seeing in a tagline.
The Happiest Character Poster Awards go to Bobby Lee and Benjamin Byron for their character posters for Borderlands.
The Ambiguous Tagline Award goes to Carry-On for having a tagline that could, technically, just be implying that millions will travel safely by train this year...
The Peter Dinklage Fight Club Award goes to American Dreamer and Brothers for giving the actor a couple of black eyes.
The Best Title Tidbit Award goes to Red One for sneaking a Christmas tree into their title font.
The Most Appropriate Design Agency Award goes to Megalopolis: A Fable for being designed by Fable.
The Best Animal Character Poster Award goes to
The Fall Guy for featuring "The Dog". Runner up goes to
Arthur the King.
The Largest Rating Block Award goes to The Underdoggs.
The Buried Secrets Award goes to Catching Dust, Haunted Heart, and Strictly Confidential for telling us that secrets should stay buried, can never be buried, and are meant to stay buried.
The Best Silhouette Poster Award goes to Rebel Ridge.
The Best Spoof Poster Award goes to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 for its recreation of Home Alone, though it could've also gone to almost any of the ten Christmas-themed spoof posters made for the film.
Thanks for checking out our annual awards. Hope you enjoyed them!
