From Zombos Closet

July 2019

Outcast of the Islands (1951) Pressbook

Dramatic poster art for Outcast of the Islands drew my attention to this pressbook. Looking at it, I find it interesting how some movies played up the exotic woman (here it's Kerima) in the tropical/jungle milieu, until the 1950s, in the horror and adventure genres; one of all image, no substance. Now, of course, there were the femme fatales in noir, and the standout movie starlets, but they stood apart from the pretty-cardboard women with an air of tropical mystery and vexing perfection like Kerima, Acquanetta, and Kathleen Burke (Panther Woman in Island of Lost Souls). Noteworthy in this pressbook is the use of the "MASS audiences and CLASS audiences are flocking to see…" promotion line. I don't recall seeing another blatant (although, let's face it, an inherent presumption for any movie) spelling-out of the makeup of the audience theaters should have expected to get for Outcast.

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Monster World Issue 7, 1965

Here’s a monster matinee issue of Monster World for your Saturday morning coffee reading pleasure. Issue 7 has lots of those wonderful advertising pages we loved as kids (but now I realize how much page-space was taken up for them!), and a Son of Frankenstein filmbook,  a note about Basil Rathbone’s dislike for being known as a horror actor, and Ghidorah! wags his tail. There ‘s a wonderful two-page spread on Famous Monster’s 3rd Fantastic Amateur Make-up Contest! too. A rather smart way to sell the 4.95 dollar kit. Of course, that kit, unused, would fetch a lot more money today. Then again, I wonder how many millennials are into monsterkid stuff?

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The Collector (1965) Pressbook

I caught this on television a long while back and found it disturbing. A psychological horror story, it leaves you with a definite depressed mood. Terrence Stamp and Samantha Eggar provide the tension and terror as he displays really bad social skills and she's desperate to escape.

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The Monster Times Issue 36
October 1974

Here’s another jam-packed issue for The Monster Times, issue 36. I get goosebumps when I read news blurbs like the one you’ll find on page 25, in Trek Talk. A bloody sweet tw0-pager by Dez Skinn and Dave Gibbons provides the comic relief, and Jason Thomas brings us part 1 of Robots in the Cinema. The mysterious Howard Philips asks Why Super-Heroines Leave Home, and the monster movies are gravely covered with Tales From Beyond the Grave and, one of my favorite Donald Pleasence movies, The Mutations. Lots more to read, so I won’t keep you any longer: jump right in!

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