Movie posters are there to sell the movie. But some of them sell the movie too well, making you think a bad film will be a really, really good one.

To celebrate those rare moments when the publicity succeeds where the movie doesn't, here are just ten examples of great posters for terrible films.

1. Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999)

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 57%

The teaser poster for the second coming of Star Wars was screaming-in-the-street exciting when it first hit bus stop billboards. Intriguingly, there's no mention of hyper-annoying sidekicks or intergalactic tax systems anywhere on it. Hmm.

2. Cobra (1986)

Rotten Tomatoes rating: 13%

So masculine it made men pregnant, the poster for action disasterpiece Cobra drips with virility. Alas, the film dripped with so much blood that the first cut earned an X rating, forcing reshoots that made an already preposterous plot crumple like a crisp packet in Sly's massive manly fists.