A simple pressbook for Boris Karloff's The Man With Nine Lives stands out with its photomontage centerfold spread (here shown in two pages). Notice how the "screen's master of horror" is the key selling point.
Here’s the theater herald for The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (the movie was very loosely based on Ray Bradbury’s short story, The Fog Horn). I’ll have the exciting pressbook posted soon. Note: the blank page on the cover is for the theater to add their own information. These were given away for free to promote the upcoming movie showing at the local theater.
One of my favorite movies to catch on local television, way back when, was World Without End. Giant spiders, gorgeous women, and mutants! This pressbook is large, 12 x 18.25 inches, and it has some interesting promotional gimmicks: Vargas, for one, drawing sexy futuristic women, and one product tie-in is a vacuum cleaner. Yup. They still need to clean, even in the future. Those giant spiders leave an awful mess.
The movie that had Siskel and Ebert, and most of America, putting it on the naughty list when it first hit the theaters.
From the redoubtable West Nelson, science fiction maven and geek extraordinaire, comes this news about the Monsters and Maidens poster showing at the Swann Auction Galleries.
"Get carried away! Every poster in this sale depicts a beautiful damsel in distress in the clutches of a monster (or monster of sorts). Images range from promotions of A-list classic films like Dracula and Frankenstein to posters for B movies and beyond."
Title: MONSTERS & MAIDENS: A FILM POSTER COLLECTION
Date: December 18, 2012
Time: at 1:30 PM
Exhibition: Fri., December 14, 10-6
Sat., December 15, noon-5
Mon., December 17, 10-6
Tues., December 18, 10-noon
Here are examples of the wonderful posters on display.
Looking to watch a good ghost story on a chilly December night, with hot chocolate and some pfeffernusse? Here you go.
Here's the Mexican lobby card for Demonoid: Messenger of Death, a joint Mexico and U.S. production. (I linked to Dimension Fantastica's post on the movie.)
The vivid illustration mimics the more exploitable elements of the U.S. poster art for Dementia 13. It’s odd that the number 13 was not added. This title could stand in for John Parker’s Dementia, too, but the credits and artwork indicate otherwise.