One of the most frightening monsters in horror cinema. And there's Steve McQueen tossed in for good measure (he'd go on to do television's Wanted: Dead or Alive). The movie playing in the theater when the Blob spills out of the projector booth is Daughter of Horror (a re-cut of Dementia, 1955). If you haven't caught this movie, do so: it's held up and still delivers the goosebumps.
What more to say than this was done by Ray Dennis Steckler. The story goes the title was a typo (should have been Rat Pfink and Boo Boo) but Steckler's budget couldn't cough up the extra money to fix it. Great movie for a midnight matinee showing. Toss in a Three Stooges short and some early cartoons and even I'd stay awake.
This is the re-release pressbook for 1962. I'm willing to bet you never knew there was an Alfred Hitchcock Coloring Book to promote the movie! Well, only four pages, sure, but the "This is a seat in a movie theatre" page should be colored and framed. And you thought Roger Corman and William Castle were the only ones with a barker-bone in their bodies, didn't you?
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There's something fascinating about the girls and gorillas thematic that was a Hollywood bad habit that hit its zenith in the 1940s, along with mad scientists and gorillas. Of course, the most notable is King Kong (1933), but there were many movies plotting along this theme. Here's the Mexican lobby card for the Congo Bill Columbia Pictures 15 chapter serial. While it may all appear rather silly now to watch an actor in a gorilla suit carrying an unconscious woman in his arms, try to imagine as if you were sitting in a grand, single screen, theater in the 1940s. (Here's the Congo Bill pressbook.)
Here's a nice dry and dusty Western for you on a cold snowy day. Tension at Table Rock sports an eye-grabbing illustration in the poster art, daring you to blink twice. Not only is there a song tie-in to go along with the movie's action, there's also Hollywood Bread; no casting call needed, just butter.
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What's old is new again. Here's the Mexican lobby card for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Even though Bela Lugosi appears in this small effort with the Ritz Brothers, he's nowhere to be seen on this Mexican lobby card for The Gorilla. Not even Lionel Atwill, who also appears, shows up here.
Brian Lewis's cover art and John Bolton's Curse of the Werewolf highlight this issue.
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Here's the Mexican lobby card for The Devil's Rain. You can see the pressbook here. I can best sum it up by saying a lot of people melt at the end. So either fast forward or plan on spending little quality time until the end. Great poster art, though. And the makeup effects are good. A lot of movies came out in the 1970's, on television and in the theater, with stories about satanists and witchcraft and all that. Not sure why. This is one of those movies. Now, if we were talking Race with the Devil (1975), of which you can see the pressbook here, that's worth your while.
Still need to watch this one. Here's the Mexican lobby card for The House in Nightmare Park. It simply pulls illustrations, albeit wonderful ones, from the poster art for the movie. You can see the pressbook here.
If only this cheerless movie could have been a "wasn't" we'd be all the better for it. No magic, no wonder, and no fun whatsoever. Dreary sums it up. Fruitcake has more going for it.
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