This is the ‘insurance policy’ theater giveaway for Night of the Living Dead. Of course, if you were actually frightened to death you couldn’t spend the money anyway. Below it is a copy of the NOTLD pressbook page highlighting this promotional gimmick. And here’s my take on this classic movie that frightened me as a kid. And I mean really, really, scared the sh*t out of me.
Fellow purveyor of popular culture goodness (and geekdom), Terry Michitsch, generously provided these scans of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad pressbook. My favorite Sinbad movie, this has it all: fantastic musical score, wonderful dynamation from the master, Ray Harryhausen, a perfectly nasty villain, romance, and a solid fantasy storyline with action sequences.
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Here’s a monster timely issue for Godzilla fans. Issue 35 of The Monster Times covers Tokyo’s eternal monster problem with a nifty rundown on the big nasties across the movies (up until 1974, of course). Howard Phillips (um, yeah) provides an overview of Supernatural Horrors in the comics, and the Science Fiction Book Club (gee, I was a member!) gets a shout-out in Bargains From Beyond. Not surprisingly, there’s a full-page ad for the Science Fiction Book Club, too. Back then, the club was the best way to get your hands on copious genre reading material. John Tibbets provides an academic lecture on horror and Chosen Survivors gets a “worth seeing” review. Also noteworthy, Trek Talk provides Cleveland Amory’s review of Star Trek, which originally appeared in TV Guide‘s 1967 issue.
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