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March 21, 2017

Monster Madness No. 3, 1973

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While the humor doesn’t improve much for this last issue of Monster Madness, the inclusion of articles was a last gasp attempt at enticing the maturing monsterkids into spending their coinage. In this issue you will find cool reading on the Creature from the Black Lagoon (with a great pic of Milicent Patrick at work), reviews for Asylum, Blacula, and Dr. Phibes Rises Again, the redoubtable Robert Bloch, and a letters page. Special note: the Fright Gallery ad on page 61; who wouldn’t want all of these 24 x 36 inch posters to stare at in the middle of the night?

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The Black Scorpion (1957)
Mexican Lobby Card

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I always find it interesting to see lobby cards that stress a romantic angle for a horror movie. It seems so contrary to the selling point of the movie, which would be terror, scares, or jeers (depending on the quality). Of course, you don't see much romance at all today in horror cinema, but in the 1950s and 1960s it was either the monster wanted the girl or the hero wanted the girl, or the monster just wanted to eat both of them and be done with it. So on this Mexican lobby card for The Black Scorpion, we get a back-grounded monster and some military action, but a lot of romance up front. Go figure. On the plus side, the stop motion work was supervised by Willis O'Brien and Richard Denning is the hero. I like Richard Denning. 

Black Scorpion Mexican lobby card