Mexican Lobby Card: Fiend Without a Face
Based on Amelia Long's The Thought Monster, 1958's British production, Fiend Without a Face, sported some gruesome gore for its time, creepy stop-motion brain-monsters climbing and flying all over the place.
Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards
Mexican Lobby Card: Monster on the Campus
This Monstruo En La Noche lobby card for Universal's Monster On the Campus (also called Monster in the Night) is from the Professor Kinema archives.
A simple combination of red and black inks combine to create a striking image that's more exciting than the actual movie. Note the interesting contrast between the King Kong grip on the heroine by an over-sized monster in the illustration compared to the insert picture. The small picture of the scientist acting scientifically and the hypodermic needle outline cue the science-horror aspect of the movie.
Missile Monsters (1958)
Mexican Lobby Card
Sadly, there are no monsters in this movie version of the Republic serial, Flying Disc Man From Mars. At least the Mexican lobby card design is cool. You have to love that alien outfit. It's so functional, yet casual. I'd say that's one big missile that man has, wouldn't you?
Mexican Lobby Card: El Monstruo Resucitado
"In 1953, Mexico mounted its first-ever serious treatment of the Frankenstein myth, El monstruo resucitado. Directed by Chano Urueta, El monstruo resucitado presents Spanish actor José María Linares-Rivas as a deranged plastic surgeon who keeps an ape-monster in his basement and successfully reanimates a corpse, albeit as a mindless zombie. El monstruo resucitado was a success in Mexico. Suddenly, the Western was taking second place on screen to the Horror genre films." (Wikipedia, Horror Films of Mexico )
And this lobby card art is to die for. Oddly though, for a movie that contains gory medical scenes, these photographs are tepid.
Mexican Lobby Card: The Terror of the Tongs
The Terror of the Tongs (El Terror De La Mafia China) lobby cards from Professor Kinema. That big bald guy looks mean, doesn't he? Note the use of different photographs within the repeating graphics to provide variety. Click each lobby card to view the Yellow Peril in all its lurid detail.