While I try to find a better condition Mexican lobby card for Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos (1973), enjoy the monsterkid fun of this one. The movie looks pretty wild on a budget, and there's even a gorilla!
The Mexican lobby card for The Vindicator, La Venganza De Terminator, seems to stretch the promotion a wee bit by hinting at The Terminator (1984). By the 1980s, Mexican lobby cards went to thin glossy paper and minimal creativity in their layouts. They got smaller in size, too, as the movies got smaller in budget.
The UK pressbooks for horror and terror movies are normally so neat and proper, you'd expect a cup of tea being sipped while perusing them. Here's the pressbook for Hammer's Demons of the Mind, filled with depravity, incest, and torture. Have a scone on me.
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Otherwise known as a bad night in the jungle. Low budget movie, odd Mexican lobby card. Not sure how Viggo Mortensen and Leatherface figure into it, but I'm sure they don't appear in this movie. At all. I'm not even sure this is a scene in the movie.
So, I'm thinking all female vampires should wear low-cut tights and elf boots. Great look. And comfortable for all the night-stalking they do. The sewn-on-to-the-arms satin bat wings lend a distinct touch, too.
Yes, August is here. And with it the summer doldrums intensify along with the heat, the warm ennui increasing as it wafts on the occasional breeze, the laconic malaise growing twixt the brightness of Spring and the promise of the festive Fall (Halloween, baby!) But whenever you're feeling down, just remember these poor bastards, who toiled away in the heat and humidity just for you to complete that jungle picture, dressed in thick, furry, (and probably very itchy) gorilla costumes. Pictures we love to love–or make fun of (alright, I admit it, I love them anyway). I bet you're feeling cooler already.
The Clarence Swensen Gorilla Group with Johnny Weissmuller (http://www.erbzine.com/mag41/4169.html)
Having said that the German pressbooks I've seen are usually one big sheet fold-outs, of course I catch this one for 4D Man (1959) tumbling out of the closet. It's one long, narrow sheet that unfolds. Very stylish.
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Here's a German pressbook for Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. The German pressbooks I've seen so far are usually a one sheet fold-out with a splendid scene-rich centerfold. They also include the ad mats on cheap pulp paper to be cut out and used in newspapers.
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And here's a little sword and sandal cheesecake for your Thursday. I'm not sure which Sybil Danning movie this one is, but I doubt it can live up to the illustration shown here.
Here's a little peplum beefcake to brighten your Thursday. I find it odd the title shows "Sanson," but the movie's original title was Sansone. Perhaps the "e" was removed so he had room to flex those biceps better.