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January 3, 2018

The Prey (1984) Mexican Lobby Card

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I was thinking The Prey was a straight to VHS endeavor, but IMDb lists New World Pictures as a theatrical distributor so it did have a limited theater run at least.  Here's the blurb from IMDb: "Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love." Sure. And with a tagline like "it's not human, and it's got an axe" I'm still not seeing this one as a big theater draw, but John Kenneth Muir did give it a positive review, so I recommend you read what he says about it to help you make up your mind. The movie was actually completed in 1978 but didn't see release until 1984. 

Prey lobby card

Red Planet Mars (1952)
Mexican Lobby Card

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Messages from Mars send the United States into a tizzy. An odd "red scare" movie from the 1950s, Red Planet Mars tosses in God, Nazis technology, the Red Menace, nuclear power, and Peter Graves, and may actually be worth revisiting: its relevance to today's fake news/political meddling, and religious hypocrisies may have been prescient. John L. Balderston and John Hoare wrote it. Balderston's version of the Dracula stage play became the vehicle for Bela Lugosi, and, according to Wikipedia, he was an uncredited contributor to Mark of the Vampire. Unfortunately, the poster art leaves much to be desired.

Red Planet Mars lobby card

Sudden Fear (1952) Mexican Lobby Card

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From Wikipedia: "In 1984, film noir historian Spencer Selby noted, "Undoubtedly one of the most stylish and refined woman-in-distress noirs." This Mexican lobby card for Sudden Fear illustrates that tone quite well with a beautiful closeup of Joan Crawford at her histrionic-best. Notice, also, how the lighting for the couple at the bottom right embellishes them with a sinister patina.

Sudden Fear Lobby Card