who immediately hired him as the creative director of humor and advertising for Larry Flynt Publications, where he conceptualized ad campaigns for Hustler.
Together they designed one-sheet imagery for film posters and VHS box covers of the 1980s, including Brian De Palma's Dressed to Kill (1980), John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), and Tobe Hooper's The Funhouse (1981).
[4] Nightdreams and Café Flesh were financially unsuccessful in the pornographic market, but they broke house records as midnight movies and replaced David Lynch's Eraserhead (1977) and John Waters' Pink Flamingos (1972) as they toured the country.
[3] The April 1984 edition of Hustler featured a 21-page spread that Sayadian produced and directed in collaboration with musician Frank Zappa for his triple album Thing-Fish (1984).
Flynt was going to pay for the production of a Broadway show based on the spread but reversed his decision when Thing-Fish did not result in increased magazine sales.