Do you remember the scene in “Jaws” when the shark emerges from the ocean as a muscle-ripped humanoid brandishing the severed head of Richard Dreyfuss? Or that part in “The Muppet Movie” when Kermit the Frog sticks everyone up with a pistol in one hand and a machine gun in the other?

You probably don’t, because they didn’t happen. But throughout the 1980s and ’90s in Ghana, hand-painted posters depicting such action-packed and absurdist scenes were used to lure African moviegoers to see Hollywood films.

At the time, small traveling cinemas known as “video clubs” — consisting of a flatbed truck, a television and a VCR — roved through Ghana’s towns and villages. With them rose a bootleg poster industry rooted in the idea that the zanier the art, the likelier people were to buy tickets. Sometimes the artists hadn’t even seen the films. But as Ghana entered the new millennium, this guerrilla poster art style began to fade away.

Thanks to Deadly Prey Gallery, it hasn’t disappeared completely.…