With nefarious and icky one-eyed aliens, the Navy's new strategic weaponry of atomic powered submarines, and a budget take on alien encounters, pacifism versus fighting, and somewhat passable underwater staging, The Atomic Submarine launched before Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's Seaview and the underwater warship Atragon. And I built the Revell atomic sub model, too!
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A big 28 page pressbook for a little girl. But what a little girl. The Bad Seed seemed pretty daring for the 1950s: making a kid a serial killer (and the daughter of a serial killer to imply a genetic bond). Of course the movie twists around the ending from the novel to appease the Motion Picture Production Code (and also to make it more sellable to the adult theater audience). There's an interesting filler article on page 24 that states Alfred Hitchcock wanted a walk-on part in the movie. Sounds like a smart piece of promotion more than the truth, but check it out.
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Here's the pressbook for Devil Goddess, the last film in the Jungle Jim series by Columbia Pictures.
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This Howco movie pressbook for Mesa of Lost Women doesn't do this opus of inanity justice, so read my movie review to get a better sense of the senselessness this movie brings to 1950s bottom-basement wonders.
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Who knows the effects of the deadly gamma rays? The mysteries of space provided a fertile ground for destructive rays and destructive aliens in the 1950s and 1960s as well as for heroic and conflicted comic book heroes. The Fantastic Four would blast into space and be enveloped by cosmic rays in 1961, Bruce Banner would be mutated into the Incredible Hulk in 1962 by gamma rays, and space rays would have a positive influence on DC's Negative Man in 1963. But First Man into Space in 1959 blasted off first to ignite the radiation mania in popular culture.
Here's the Circus of Horrors movie herald. This version came with the pressbook, offering movie theaters a sample of the advertising handout they could order. Pretty elaborate for a horror movie. The pressbook is even more amazing. It's a whopping 18 inches by 24 inches in size. A big pressbook for a circus big top movie.
Long time pressbook collector and contributor to Zombos' Closet, Tony Rivers once again goes to the jungle and returns with Jungle Woman.
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Here's the four-page pressbook for Caltiki, the Immortal Monster. Mario Bava reportedly had a hand in the direction of this horror movie, but whoever is to blame, the end result is a mess only a tad less horrifying than Caltiki. Of course, I didn't notice the slipshod editing at the time, but the monster is quite impressively gloppy and scary. Hard to say if this movie was a rushed attempt at cashing in on The Blob, starring Steve McQueen, but I can tell you it scared me so much as a child I had nightmares for a week. And of course, came back for more 😉 The story is still very good, just the execution could have been much, much better.
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So, what's a really bad horror movie with girls, sand, and a monster? Why, The Beach Girls and the Monster, of course, from 1965.
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Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
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Here's the 20 page pressbook for Them! And some interesting tidbits from the Wikipedia article on the movie:
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The best part of this pressbook for Black Dragons is the Bela Lugosi product tie-in to Remington. Who knew even Dracula needed to shave?
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Here's the Realart re-release pressbook for Night Monster, a tidy little thriller from Universal, with tons of atmosphere and stylish camerawork to enjoy. You can read my movie review here.
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