The movie is So Sweet, So Dead (1972). The original Italian title is even more unexciting (and much longer). So the pressbook goes for the titillation effect with the more direct "The Slasher…is the Sex Maniac!" The 1970s were a lot like that. Movie pressbooks from this decade are a lot like that, too.
Yes, indeed, zombie pix are upbeat and durable. This 11 x 17 inches double bill pressbook for The Black Sleep and The Creeping Unknown (although Creeping isn't covered much) is a black and white treat that reminds me a lot of Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in its "Horror Beyond Belief!" layout. I would have loved to have seen those waxworks of the horror stars in a theater lobby.
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Double Bill Pressbook: The Black Sleep
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A simple Mexican lobby card design you see for 1970s and 1980s movies like Without Warning (1980): photographic elements and basic text layouts.
I simply love this Mexican lobby card for The Naked Jungle (1954). For one thing, how can you go wrong with an unstoppable army of man-eating ants ruining your day. Sure, there's romance and a manly Charlton Heston to save the day, but did I mention MAN-EATING ANTS? The card is eye-catching, and the illustration sophisticated yet vibrant.
The Mexican lobby card for It! (1967) pushes the Norman Bates motherly love angle a bit. All the key elements are here from the movie: the amulet, the statue, the unconscious victim, etc
The Mexican lobby card for I Was a Teenage Caveman (1958). Funny how this movie had a 1960s social unrest vibe to it, and the surprise ending is similar to those later seen in movies like The Village and Planet of the Apes.
This Mexican lobby card for The Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941) uses what I refer to as the scrapbook approach: the illustrations are ripped off from other sources and pasted together, creating a melange of exciting events that never happen in the movie. It's beautiful to look at, but ultimately disappointing. Astute pop culture fans will note the Seaview submarine from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and cover art from Eerie magazine (or was it Creepy?).
What's interesting about this pressbook for Blackout (1978) is that it promotes the notable actors appearing in it more than anything else. On another note, I remember the 1977 New York City blackout quite well: my mom freaked out thinking it was the end of the world and ran to grab the crucifixes; as for me, I thought it was fun. I was a kid. What did I know? After Hurricane Sandy and 14 days without power, it wasn't as much fun as I remembered.
Watari, Ninja Boy (1966) looks like a movie I’d want to see. A little boy with a big axe to grind; let the action begin.
An odd amalgam of elements roughly illustrated, but they do fit the title for this Mexican lobby card for Terror Sexo Y Brujeria.
An interesting pressbook for The Man Without a Body (1957) and Fright (1956), "the twin terror show that tops them all." The cover is a quick cut and past job, but it does the trick, and there are two 4-page inserts, one for each movie, and each 11 x 17 inches in size.
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Even though this Mexican lobby card for Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) is in poor shape, there's still enough here to show their slapstick approach to dealing with this Universal Studios monster. That's an errant pen stroke and badly applied white-out in the Mummy's crotch area. Ouch. How it got there I'll never know.