Mexican Lobby Card: Rodan
Note the reference to Julio Verne. "More startling than Jules Verne" appears on the American promotional material, too. I'm not sure why his name was chosen to hype the movie.
Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards
Mexican Lobby Card: Onibaba
Note the el mito del sexo (the myth of the sex) angle pushed on the lobby card. A sexual theme runs through the movie, but it's impetus comes from conditions of dominance, predation, and desperation. Onibaba is a noirish tale of lingering evils that's creepy as hell.
Mexican Lobby Card: Night of Dark Shadows
I always envied David Selby's sideburns and long hair. Now more than ever. This movie, Night of Dark Shadows, less so. Then again, I wouldn't mind having Grayson Hall's hair, either.
Mexican Lobby Card: Night Creatures (1962)
Here’s the Mexican lobby card for Hammer’s Night Creatures (aka Captain Clegg).
Mexican Lobby Card: La Sangre De Nostradamus
The inimitable German Robles and a colorful, sophisticated illustration provide the menace in another beautiful example of Mexican lobby card movie promotion.
Mexican Lobby Card:
La Momia Azteca Contra El Robot Humano
A robot, a mummy, how can you go wrong with these essential combatants in Mexican Fantastic Cinema?
Mexican Lobby Card: El Charro De Las Calaveras
Simply superb, from the positioning of the masked gunfighter to the nibbling werewolf (or immensely hirsute individual, anyway). Gives me goosebumps just looking at it.
La Maldicion De La Momia Azteca (1957)
Mexican Lobby Card
Stop me if you've heard this before, but a mummy, a masked wrestler, and an evil scientist…