Zombos’ Closet…a vast trove of endearingly cheap thrills, including movie and book reviews, and scans of his collections of cinema pressbooks, goofy paper-cutout Halloween decorations, and his amazing collection of Mexican lobby cards from B-grade films. If you have time to descend into a serious rabbit-hole of marvelous trash-culture nostalgia, visit that site just as soon as you possibly can.” (DangerousMinds.net)
The Mexican lobby card for Bloodlust! (1961). Great colors, illustrated terror, and a screaming fear inset scene. How can you go wrong?
Surprisingly, given the current developments in planned head transplants, this is a more topical movie than it was when originally released: "But we still can't forget the absurdity of the premise. A BRAIN transplant?" (Roger Ebert's chief complaint, reviewing this movie, in 1969)
My favorite movie heralds are the jumbo-sized newspaper type. The Planet of the Apes series made good use of them. Here’s the one for Eye of the Cat.
Because I know you're already thinking about Halloween, here's Betty Grable, a happy pumpkin, and a little bedtime reading for you.
The movie pressbook for Voodoo Tiger (1952). This is a 6-page foldout. I've mixed up the order of the pages but they're all here.
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Yes, The Happy Musketeers (1961) is a weird movie. For kids. Great child-friendly illustration too, especially the swooning woman shackled to the torture wheel. Kids love that stuff for sure.
A very well constructed color noir, Soylent Green also warned us about global warming years before it started to take hold of our attention. Good science fiction always tells us what we don't want to hear.
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After reading the IMDb blurb for 1971's Guess What Happened to Count Dracula, I definitely know what happened to Dracula in this movie: "Dracula enslaves Dr. Irving Jekyll, turning him into the lycanthropic JackalMan, demanding that he lure female blood donors to his L.A. cabin retreat." Oh, my.
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It's interesting to note that science fiction movies usually receive a more sophisticated (and academic) promotion through their pressbooks and theater giveaways. Here's an example of a herald for the movie that's formatted as a study guide for students.