I’m not sure, but I don’t think you can use the term “hideous She-Thing!” in publicity anymore. Unless you’re a politician, of course.
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Double Bill Pressbook: Screaming Skull
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This is the first pressbook I've come across that devotes page space to a second movie, but doesn't list it on the cover. Atomic Age Vampire appears on the last 3 pages.
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Movie Pressbook: Battle of the Worlds
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This low budget cult movie was ahead of its time in depicting reality television programming. We've not reached the point of this or The Running Man, but I wonder how long it will take before we do?
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The final chapter? Who are they kidding?
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Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973)
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What I love about this large-format, foldout, double bill movie pressbook for Hammer's Dracula, Prince of Darkness and The Plague of the Zombies are the promotional giveaways offered: vampire fangs for boys and zombie eyes (the old x-ray eyeglasses doing double duty here) for girls.
Cool gimmicks, but sexist in the wording: note how boys get to "fight back…bite back" with Dracula's fangs, and the girls get to "defend" themselves "with zombie eyes." Of course, if you choose to think about it all a tad deeper, you'd eventually puzzle over how zombie eyes could defend against vampire fangs. Any suggestions?
The Black Stamps giveaway, mentioned in this Double Bill pressbook for The Gorgon and The Curse of the Mummy, didn't really have any purpose. S&H Green Stamps, given away by supermarkets (I recall my mom pasting all those stamps into her saver book, filling it page by page) would allow you to trade them in for something desirable at the redemption center. There was no redemption center for Black Stamps. But being a horror movie fan, I'd have died to get them anyway. Natch!
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The Gorgon and
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb
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Experiencing the fantastic was much easier to do in this original movie than the lacklustre remake.