This Mexican lobby card for La Danza Macabra (Castle of Blood, 1964) resonates with murder and ghostly frights. There's a little Charles Addams in the key illustration of Barbara Steele and the others standing in front of the ominous moonlit mansion: reminds of the Addams Family cartoons.
Sex, terror, death, decay, the undead, and Satanic elements, illustrated in a pyschedelic swash of colors, make this Mexican lobby card for Llamado De Ultratumba (Devils of Darkness, 1965) a wonderful example of artful exploitation.
Why do apes and ape-like monsters always go for the girls? Just asking. It’s staggering how many gut-wrenchingly bad movies John Carradine acted in. He deserved better. This Mexican lobby card for Bigfoot (1970) at least promotes the King Kong tie-in (although there isn’t any), and highlights the proper way a monster should carry a girl: over the shoulder; the arms tire too quickly, no matter how big and hairy you are.
What drew me to this card is the primitive spook house ride illustration. I believe this Mexican lobby card is for Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, also known as The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1933).
This Mexican lobby card for La Cripta Del Terror has it all: bats, skeleton, crypt, death, victim (suitably undressed), would be rescuer, moonlight, and a dollop of seedy exploitation guaranteed to bring in the audience every time. The colors are vivid, the promise of horror palpable. Oh, and having Christopher Lee in the movie doesn’t hurt, either.
Vincent Price looks so natural with that big bat flying about his head, don't you think?
An interesting Universal Studios production, Curse of the Undead (1959) mixed Wild West with vampiric gunslinger. Can’t you just see Brad Pitt in the remake?
It's interesting to note that the hero and villain's faces are rendered with less detail than the heroine's for this Ursus En La Tierra De Fuego Mexican lobby card. Now, don't get me started on where she may be looking…