Ben Cooper Baboon Man Halloween Costume
Look out, it's Baboon Man! And he's such a chattermouth, too!
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Halloween Sighted at Target 2016
Target this year is doing more animated Halloween collectibles than I've seen in the past few years. There are the usual skeletons, Gothic decorations, and tombstones, but a lively (or deadly?) mantle clock strikes the gloomy doom hour for you, and doorbell chimes put the eye on you.
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Rapco Famous Monsters Plaster Casting Kit:
Creature From the Black Lagoon
Someone recently sold this on eBay. What's cool about this (and, hey, if you're a monsterkid who played with one of these, that was way cool, too) is the graphic on the box cover: who says horror's just for the boys? I miss the more tactile pleasures of monster play. Don't you? Molding, painting, model kit building, it was fun. I still vividly remember that night my dad brought home an Aurora Wolf Man model. The long box was tied with string. He built it while I watched. I was too young at the time to build it myself. Of course, I would do a lot of model kit building later on as I got older. But that was the first time I'd seen a plastic model. And it was another step closer to becoming a monsterkid.
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Rapco Famous Monsters Plaster Casting Kit:
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Collegeville Ape Man Halloween Costume
A very odd costume, indeed. One can probably write a fascinating article on the change from single character to multi-character illustration on the costume itself, but there's another article in how suitability of mask to costume has varied over time and sociological development. I'll just note that the mask is completely mismatched to the costume. I'm guessing there was a production run of the mask for some other reason than this specific costume and Collegeville decided to save money and re-use the masks with this idea. If not, I'd be stumped as to who green-lit this one.
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Fantastic Monsters of the Films Vol. 1 No.4
More horror movie coverage with lots of photos fills up Fantastic Monsters of the Films issue 4. The Raven from AIP gets nice coverage, James Bond's first outing with Dr. No gets a license to see, and George Pal is highlighted. A fantastic close-up of Lon Chaney Jr. as the Frankenstein Monster stands out among other great shots of him in various roles, and horror host Jeepers of Theatre 13 is spotlighted. A treat for Mexican horror fans is Thomas Bradley's article, Ship of Monsters. Another real treat is Vincent Price's In Defense of Horror Films. (This copy comes from Professor Kinema's archive.)
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Ben Cooper Chuck Norris Halloween Costume
I have fond memories of going to a New York City Chinatown theater, with friends, to see Bruce Lee kick up his heels. For you martial arts fans, all I need say is The Way of the Dragon (1972). Chuck Norris fighting Bruce Lee. It was like watching Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire go head to toe, two styles, two bad-ass pros going at it. In a movie theater in Chinatown in 1972. It doesn't get any better than that.
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Fantastic Monsters of the Films Vol. 1 No.3
Photos, photos, and more photos fill Fantastic Monsters of the Films magazine. Issue 3, courtesy of Professor Kinema, has The Devil's Workshop by Paul Blaisdell, Vincent Price in the Tower of London, an eye on Doctor Cyclops, and radio stories made into movies in Terror in the Air. Great shots from 3 Stooges Meet the Martians and for A Belfry of Bela make this another issue to treasure. But the piece de resistance is the photo on the inside back cover: it shows an early maquette of the Creature from the Black Lagoon!
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Ben Cooper Chattermouth Robot
Halloween Costume
I'm not sold on the chattermouth gimmick for the mask, but this costume design is way robotastique. It has that Republic serial robotic feel to it: cheap, oddly artistic, and fun to look at.
Neutron Contra El Dr. Caronte (1963)
Mexican Lobby Card
Neutron fights mad science and robotic monsters in Neutron Contra El Dr. Caronte.
Santo Contra Blue Demon En La Atlantida (1970)
Mexican Lobby Card
Santo and Blue Demon brawling, rocket ship whizzing through space, volcano erupting, what more can you ask for in a Mexican lobby card?
El Hijo Del Santo: Frontera Sin Ley (1983)
Mexican Lobby Card
The Son of the Santo (Santito) brawls in Frontera Sin Ley. Some singing and church services may also happen.