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Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy)

Double Bill Pressbook:
The Monster That Challenged the World
and The Vampire

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The design of the caterpillar-like creature in The Monster That Challenged the World is on my shortlist of favorite monsters of the 1950s. Although the script resorts to the usual 1950s woman in peril and is totally helpless until the man arrives but he gets into trouble so she screams a lot until more help arrives scenario, it's still a worthy B Movie staple. This pressbook shows the fantastic poster art and fun ballyhoo used for promoting this double bill of "blood-curdling monsters of the age!"

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Pressbook: The Night the World Exploded (1957)

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I included the double bill sheet with this pressbook for The Night the World Exploded. I can’t say I’d hold much hope for it being a good movie, since it was paired with The Giant Claw. And disaster movies on a budget just don’t provide the oomph big budget disaster movies do. Pretty good idea, though, of having “Element 112” blowing things up as it’s exposed to air.

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Pressbook: The Rebel Set (1959)

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Oh, those wild beatniks. Wild, wild, wild. Could never get the hang of those bongos, though. Rhythm’s just not my bag, man. But I dug the tights the women wore. Slinky and sexy. One of the best horror movies with a beatnik atmosphere is A Bucket of Blood. Sherlock Holmes once quipped about “art in the blood” when discussing Mycroft, but A Bucket of Blood posits blood-in-the-art for a nice kick in the jive. A bucket’s worth, more or less.

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UK Pressbook:
Earth vs. The Flying Saucers

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A very enjoyable movie with great Harryhausen special effects. A monsterkid classic. The art direction on a budget for Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) is exemplary. From the weird, featureless alien survival suits to the rotating flying saucers, and let's not forget that fantastic warbling alien voice, it's still fun to watch.  Here's the UK pressbook for it.

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Movie Pressbook:
Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)

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The exploitation angle is pushed hard in this pressbook for Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers. That pilot's singular  expression, used in the poster art, is so direct, so embracing of suspense, that it's quite a teaser for seeing the move. If it wasn't the cold war fear, it was fear of alien invaders that sipped around the coffee tables of 1950s/1960s suburbia and metropolises.

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