Devil Doll Men, also known as Curse of the Doll People (1961); Mirek Lipinski on his Mexican Horror Film website, Vampiros and Monstruos, sums it up best: “It is a splendid example of the outre nature of the fantastique emerging from Mexico at this time–wild and nearly ridiculous, but hypnotic and chilling at the same time.” This lobby card captures that air of fantastique and terror.
Land of the Monsters (1962), Mexican lobby card style. Big clubs, furry loincloths, and ample cleavage (and I don't mean in mineralogy). I miss the stone age.
Although Hammer’s The Hound of the Baskervilles didn’t light up the box office, Peter Cushing’s Sherlock Holmes is fun to watch. Missing in this Terence Fisher directed movie is the brooding menace of the moors and the spectral hound’s presence overshadowing the gloom. The backstory is exciting, though. This is the 11 x 17 inches United Artists’ pressbook.
This is the Mexican lobby card for Bloodsuckers, also known as Incense for the Damned, (1970). The usual women being terrorized and leering skull motifs works well here.
Not completely sure, but since this fell out of my 4 page black and white pressbook for Laserblast, while I was curating (a fancy term that really means "making room for more stuff") my pressbook collection, I'll say–for now–that it's an insert sheet to the pressbook. Printed on high-quality glossy letter-sized paper, it shows this intense graphic on one side and movie scenes on the other. I mention the black and white pressbook because I believe there's actually a color version whose cover is this action-packed graphic. The pressbook I have is only filled with ad mats, so it, too, may be an insert to the color pressbook. Isnt' curating fun?
An Amicus production directed by Freddie Francis, here's the Mexican lobby card for The Psychopath (1966). This is what happens when grown men play with dolls. For sure.
No one inviting you to their parties? Then here you go. Of course, any party patrons that can hear you playing in your home from across the street may not be as lively as you'd like. As a backup plan, just in case no one continues to invite you to their parties even after all that Harmonica practice, I suggest you take up whittling Gaspard the Sailor, too. It will help make all that idle time pass quickly. (Hohner Harmonicas Ad from Popular Science, December, 1936)
I miss the 1970s trashy zaniness, don't you?