“Wolfen” (ウルフェン), Original Japanese Movie Poster 1981, Very Rare, B2 Size (c. 51 × 73 cm) O649

This is an original Japanese B2 poster issued in Japan for the original release era of Wolfen (1981), Michael Wadleigh’s cult urban horror-thriller—starring Albert Finney, Diane Venora, and Gregory Hines—a distinctive early-’80s genre hybrid that fuses police procedural tension with supernatural dread and a uniquely modern, metropolitan sense of menace. Long admired for its atmosphere and bleak New York mood, Wolfen has become a true cult title of the era, prized by horror collectors for its tone, imagery, and uncanny “city-as-hunting-ground” concept.

Poster design
A superb, design-forward Japanese campaign built around graphic colour violence and stark typographic force. The sheet is dominated by a shocking, high-contrast cemetery panorama—headstones rendered in electric reds and blues beneath a purple sky—set against a black skyline silhouette that reads unmistakably as New York. A single tree burns in neon red at the centre like a warning flare. Above, the title WOLFEN slashes across the top in dripping, claw-like gold lettering, paired with the English tagline “There is no defense.”—a perfect minimalist threat. Along the bottom margin, a strip of small film stills functions like a storyboard of dread (urban streets, faces, the Brooklyn Bridge, the creature POV imagery), while the Japanese title 「ウルフェン」 anchors the base in bold type. The overall effect is strikingly contemporary—part poster, part modern art print—making this one of the most displayable Japanese horror B2s of the period.

Condition
Excellent overall. Please review the photos as they show the exact poster for sale.

It is over 44 years old!

It is not a reproduction or a reprint.
Certificate of Authenticity included.