Movie Pressbook: The Fog (1980)
Looking to watch a good ghost story on a chilly December night, with hot chocolate and some pfeffernusse? Here you go.
Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy)
Movie Pressbook: Tarzan, the Ape Man (Denny Miller)
From Tony Rivers’ collection comes this pressbook for Tarzan, the Ape Man (played by a light-haired Denny Miller and filled with stock footage from earlier Tarzan movies). Here’s what Tony says: “Denny Miller’s TARZAN THE APE MAN was considered the worst Tarzan movie until the Bo Derek version came out. It was cheaply done, even using some footage from the Weissmuller original and tinting it in color, and there is a scene where Tarzan fights an animal that you can easily see it’s a stuffed animal! Miller was the first blonde Tarzan and although he had fun making the film, it’s not that good. They even used the crocodile fight from TARZAN AND HIS MATE! Joanna Barnes plays Jane and it pretty much follows the same plot of the Weissmuller film.”
Movie Herald: Tarzan, the Ape Man (Denny Miller)
Courtesy of Tony Rivers comes this giveaway herald for Tarzan, the Ape Man starring Denny Miller.
Movie Pressbook: The Mummy’s Ghost (Realart)
Courtesy of Tony Rivers, this bare bones 4-page pressbook from Realart for The Mummy's Ghost does contain something interesting: "Make a Prop Mummy" in the Showmanship section.
Movie Pressbook: Bela Lugosi in Voodoo Man (1944)
This 11×17 inches pressbook is four pages and hypes the presence of "the Horror King" Bela Lugosi. Cheap picture, big horror stars: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, and John Carradine. I can watch any movie with Lugosi in it; he never budgeted his acting for any role.
British Pressbook: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Here's the petite 6.5 x 13.5 inch British pressbook for The Incredible Shrinking Man.
Movie Pressbook:
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Part 2
Here are the exploitation pages from the Tarzan and the Lost Safari pressbook. Are you the Tarzan of your neighborhood?
Movie Pressbook:
Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
Part 1
Both Tony Rivers (Teenage Horror Factory) and myself are Tarzan fans. So there. Here’s Tony’s scans for the Tarzan and the Lost Safari pressbook to go bananas over.
Movie Pressbook: The Mummy’s Tomb (Realart)
Tony Rivers delivers some tana leaves by moonlight, along with Realart's The Mummy's Tomb pressbook…
Movie Pressbook:
Charlie Chan in The Sky Dragon (1949)
From the Tony Rivers collection comes this pressbook for Charlie Chan (Roland Winters) in The Sky Dragon. Classic television fans of Superman will also notice Noel Neill’s name is in the credits.
Movie Pressbook:
Charlie Chan in Dangerous Money (1946)
Courtesy of Tony Rivers comes this Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) pressbook for Dangerous Money. (Note: Please defer any modern interpretations and criticisms of Hollywood's casting choices and stereotypical characterizations to our lawyer, Mr. Jimmy Sosumi.)
Movie Pressbook: Death Machines (1976)
I recently acquired this pressbook from eBay, mostly because the poster art is so 1970s exploitative gritty and cheesy-futuristic, you know?. Sadly, there are no "death machines" like the munching maw illustrated here. The story revolves around martial artists injected with a drug to make them killing, zombie-like, machines of death. Get it? I'm not sure if the audience did.