Macabro (1966)
Sick or bizarre? Male Geisha Girls! Dare YOU see Macabro? Is it more shocking than Twitter and MySpace? You be the judge!
Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy)
Raw Meat (1973) Pressbook
All I can say is, if Donald Pleasence and Christopher Lee are in it, it must be good. And I bet you thought the New York City subway "grind" was tough. The ever tasteless exploitation section's Butcherettes and Choice Cuts Bally would probably not "cut" it today. Great poster art, though.
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Cannibal Girls (1973) Pressbook
Here's a movie with Welcome Back Kotter's Eugene Levy. I dont' think he made many movies, especially ones with cannibal girls in them. The warning bell (dinner bell?) gimmick is nifty. This one has tender, juicy hippies, too.
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Deathmaster (1972) Pressbook
Here's another movie Robert Quarry played a vampire in. It's got hippies, too. That's about it.
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Westworld (1973) Pressbook
Considering the latest developments in robotics, this may not be that far off.
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Teenage Monster (1958) Pressbook
Howco International distributed many Drive-In movies during the 1950s, and their campaign books (sometimes presented as a folder with inserts if a double-bill) are concise and neatly arranged. This campaign book is for Teenage Monster. Two things you should know about this movie: Jack Pierce had a hand in the hairy monster's makeup, and it's a horror western that takes place around 1880. Otherwise, it doesn't live up to the "teenage titan of terror on a lustful binge" billing.
Dementia 13 (1963) Pressbook
The movie gimmick here is the D-13! Test, a questionaire theaters could hand out to "…screen out those persons who may be adversely affected by this picture." Question 12 is the one I'd pay particular attention to: "The most effective way of settling a dispute is with one quick stroke of the axe to your adversary's head?" I'd answer yes to that one. How about you?
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Village of the Damned (1960) Pressbook
Village of the Damned (based on John Wyndham's The Midwich Cuckoos) is still an effectively unnerving sci fi movie: unknown aliens tinker with human DNA to produce offspring with telekinetic powers and super egos to match. In this pressbook for the movie, the children's peculiar eyes are emphasized, especially in the Exploitation section. And no, I didn't know that George Sanders was once a South American tobacco grower.
The Bat People (1974) Pressbook
I picked this pressbook up because of its layout: the black and brown cover is striking, the use of font style adds to the flapping wings horror, and this movie's posters scream cheesy bat people makeup shown maybe two-thirds of the way into the story. But perhaps I'm wrong? Maybe this is a fantastically scary vampire opus? Nah!
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Frogs (1972) Pressbook
In the 1970s, movies and television episodes started appearing warning us of dire consequences from our disregard for the environment and mother nature (remember Silent Running?). It's a shame we didn't listen then, and we're playing dumb now. Frogs has my vote for one of the best horror movie posters ever done. "Today the pond, tomorrow the world!"