Double Bill Pressbook: How to Make a Monster
and Teenage Caveman (Part 2)
Note: Pressbook scans courtesy of Tony Rivers. Highlights here are the exhibitor’s letter and the comic strip.
October 8, 2012
Double Bill Pressbook: How to Make a Monster
and Teenage Caveman (Part 1)
Tony Rivers says “Here’s the AIP pressbook for How to Make a Monster and Teenage Caveman and this time it’s 16 pages. The comic strip page has ordering info for the strip on the back (usually the extra page is one sided – blank on the other side) and it also has a two-page letter with advertising tips too.” Great tagline: It will scare the living yell out of you!
Double Bill Pressbook: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
and Blood of Dracula
Another wonderful American International double bill, folder-styled, pressbook from the Tony Rivers collection. From Tony: "All these AIP pressbooks from this era had an extra page (I Was a Teenage Werewolf had the page with ads showing the werewolf's face while How to Make a Monster had the comic strip page in color.) While I don't have that page in my pressbook for I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I found a small picture of it online and am enclosing it as the last page. " (Note: See next to last page for "American News: Frankenstein Versus Dracula" promotional articles).
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Mexican Lobby Card: Superargo El Gigante
You can tell Superargo, El Gigante (1968) is an Italian production (also shot in Spain). The Italian influence can be seen in the colander-styled helmets and costume styling. They scream Italian science fiction tech movie circa 1960s. Superargo is the Italian version of the Mexican Masked Wrestler. Here he beats up a lot of robots. Slick exploitation that's very entertaining.
Mexican Lobby Card: The Deathhead Virgin
The Deathhead Virgin (La Virgen Mortal) 1974 Mexican lobby card shows a very suggestive composition, which comes from the English language movie poster. This vixen is the spirit of an ancient Moro princess who guards a sunken Spanish Galleon. Love the tasteful positioning of the kelp, don't you?
Mexican Lobby Card: Kung Fu Cannibals
Raw Force, also known as Kung Fu Cannibals, also known as La Isla De Los Zombies, has Cameron Mitchell, and assorted victim-fodder, tackle an island of damned martial artists. I'll just leave it at that. Unfortunately, the inset scene doesn't carry the rest of the lobby card's "kick."