From Zombos' Closet

Mexican Lobby Card: La Mensajera Del Diablo

Mexican Lobby Card: El Monstruo De Londres

Mexican Lobby Card: La Senora Muerte

Mexican Lobby Card: Reptilicus

Before trolls started roaming Norway in TrollHunter, Reptilicus was chomping on Denmark. Although this giant behemoth looks more like a Chinese dragon in the illustration than a reptile.

Mexican Lobby Card: Brain of Blood

The determination on the doctor's face, the weird device he's holding shooting out an energy beam, the savage determination on the ghoul's face, and its strategic grappling around a bosomy chest; what more can you ask for in a lurid Mexican lobby card for Brain of Blood?

Mexican Lobby Card: La Venganza De Tartu

La Venganza De Tartu 1966

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

The lobby card is colorful, especially with an emotive Boris Karloff Frankenstein's Monster face staring at you.

Mexican Lobby Card: Las Brujas Del Infierno

Mexican Lobby Card: Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster

When me and my mom showed up at the Benson Theater (in Brooklyn) one afternoon to catch Thunderball, we got zapped with this turkey instead. Bad makeup, bad acting, bad scripting, bad direction, bad, and overall cheesy fun. This lobby card is way better than the movie.  

The Amazing Colossal Man (1957) Mexican Lobby Card

One of my favorite B movies from the 1950s. Does this illustration remind you of King Kong and Fay Wray? And boy do I wish I had that hypodermic needle prop!

Mexican Lobby Card: Strait-Jacket

Mexican Lobby Card: Voodoo Woman

It's confusing: this lobby card is for Voodoo Woman (1957), but the title on the card reads The Gold Idol. Go figure. Speaking of figures, the usual scared female victim scantilly dressed and spear-waving natives, framed with that frightful monster face lighting up the background, tones this lobby card perfectly. Not tastefully, mind you, but in that B-movie-trashy-bad-it's-good way. Paul Blaisdell created, and played, the monster.