From Zombos' Closet

Monster Laffs: A&C Meet Frankenstein

Monster Laffs: Monster Rally Ballyhoo

Monster Laffs: Blood of the Vampire

Pressbook: Nightmare (1956)

There was a hypnosis craze? Anyway, this 11x17 inches pressbook for Nightmare is well done. Good illustrations and color choices make it pop. Hypnosis would figure prominently in other mysteries that followed later, including episodes of television's Columbo and The Avengers.

UK Pressbook: Fear in the Night (1972)

Here's the UK pressbook for Hammer's Fear in the Night, with Peter Cushing, Ralph Bates, Judy Geeson, and Joan Collins. I like Peter Cushing's comment in the Press Features that he wanted to be a cowboy like Tom Mix.

Mexican Lobby Card: Zombie Holocaust (1980)

Okay, I'm going to roast in hell for this one, but the contrast between the sex-sell and the horror-sell is too good to ignore. Feel free to add your own witty caption to this Mexican lobby card for (I believe) Zombie Holocaust.

Pressbook: Jungle Captive (1945)

Long time fiend from Zombos' Closet, Tony Rivers, often sighted prowling around the Classic Horror Film Board, strikes once again, with his pressbook scans for Jungle Captive, with Vicky Lane as the Ape Woman. The lobby ballyhoo and poster cut-outs must have been awesome to see.

Mexican Lobby Card: Chabelo y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos

While I try to find a better condition Mexican lobby card for Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos (1973), enjoy the monsterkid  fun of this one. The movie looks pretty wild on a budget, and there's even a gorilla!

Mexican Lobby Card: The Vindicator (1986)

The Mexican lobby card for The Vindicator, La Venganza De Terminator, seems to stretch the promotion a wee bit by hinting at The Terminator (1984). By the 1980s, Mexican lobby cards went to thin glossy paper and minimal creativity in their layouts. They got smaller in size, too, as the movies got smaller in budget. 

UK Pressbook: Demons of the Mind (1972)

The UK pressbooks for horror and terror movies are normally so neat and proper, you'd expect a cup of tea being sipped while perusing them. Here's the pressbook for Hammer's Demons of the Mind, filled with depravity, incest, and torture. Have a scone on me.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Descuartizador (1991)

Otherwise known as a bad night in the jungle. Low budget movie, odd Mexican lobby card. Not sure how Viggo Mortensen and Leatherface figure into it, but I'm sure they don't appear in this movie. At all. I'm not even sure this is a scene in the movie.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Robo De Las Momias De Guanajuato