Mexican Lobby Card: El Genio Del Mal
March 15, 2012
Mexican Lobby Card: The Brain Eaters
Nice to see a lobby card where the woman isn't scantily dressed, screaming, prone, and being attacked by a slobbering monster or groping fiend. You go girl!
Mexican Lobby Card: Rodan
Note the reference to Julio Verne. "More startling than Jules Verne" appears on the American promotional material, too. I'm not sure why his name was chosen to hype the movie.
Mexican Lobby Card: Onibaba
Note the el mito del sexo (the myth of the sex) angle pushed on the lobby card. A sexual theme runs through the movie, but it's impetus comes from conditions of dominance, predation, and desperation. Onibaba is a noirish tale of lingering evils that's creepy as hell.