Here’s a very special pressbook from the closet vault. It’s the 12 x 17 inches Publicity Book for The Return of Chandu. This, the Advertising Book, and a theater giveaway Chandu Mask were presented in a large, eye-grabbing folder. Quite an impressive promotional presentation for this serial starring Bela Lugosi.
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And since Nurses for Sale wasn't enough for trashy 1970s cinema…here's Nurse Sherri…drawn by Gray Morrow.
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Okay, so the movie's appalling, but the lurid artwork isn't. And there's a 3D version for this movie!?
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This tabloid-sized, 4-page, herald for The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas, is quite an ambitious promotion gimmick.
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Originally titled Pajama Party in a Haunted House, this last of the beach party pictures from AIP (although there's no beach, just a pool), left AIP unhappy after wrap-up, so Boris Karloff and Susan Hart were called in to film scenes that would be added into the movie (Wikipedia). Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon didn't make it into this one, although they appear in the other six beach movies.
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Seller seacheese has been putting these up for auction on eBay. I love the "Do Not Eat" in small print on the package. This theater giveaway for The Brotherhood of Satan has a great graphic on the front of the package. I imagine it would be cool to do this again, along with a midnight showing for the movie, but fill the package with Pop Rocks candy (or maybe even Red Hots) instead of Fright Seeds.
So I'm thinking if you're not young and beautiful, you're safe, right? By the 1970s, pressbooks were becoming cut-up and paste efforsts (worst efforts, clever huh) with lurid colors and few pages. This one is a double-sided sheet. That's it. Two beautiful girls stumble onto a ghost ship filled with flesh-eating ghouls. They (the girls) insist on checking it out so they can be devoured as they (the ghouls) check them out. Rescuers arrive for more snacks. And the illustration makes it look like she's fighting little people dead men with rope. In a bikini. Midnight show anyone? And yes, it's those Knights Templars back for more. This is the third installment, El Buque Maldito, in the Blind Dead series. It does have its atmosphere and creep factor, though, so midnight show, anyone?
Remember this one? If not, you're lucky. Who knew laserdisc players were so darn useful for killing zombies AND playing movies?
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Thanks to Tony Rivers and his taste in classy, ahem, movies, we have this double bill pressbook for Viking Women and the Sea Serpent and The Astounding She Monster. The pressbook is the folder design with insert sheets, which makes a wonderful presentation for distributors. Usually, this pressbook winds up being cut up and in terrible shape (maybe those movies were pretty popular!?) when it comes up for auction, but thanks to Tony and his pressbook collection (yeah, Zombos is jealous), we've got a great bunch of scans to share with fellow lovers of feminine pulchritude and pugilistic prowess.
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Double Bill Pressbook:
Viking Women and the Sea Serpent
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