Mexican Lobby Card: Frankenstein’s Daughter
This movie's another guilty pleasure. The makeup is so gonzo, how can you not love it?
Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards
Nightmare in Wax (1969)
Mexican Lobby Card
What's not to love about this over the top Mexican lobby card for Nightmare in Wax? The maniacal predator; the dripping blood; the victim's head reflecting the terror (I assume the rest of her is in the box); and an action shot filled with menace (though not sure for whom). Yup. A definite keeper. Usually, the more distasteful the advertising, the more tepid the movie. But at least we have the poster art to keep us happy with fright.
Mexican Lobby Card: La Mente Y El Crimen
This lobby card shows an excellent use of stark imagery over credits to imply motivations for this 1964 Mexican movie.
Mexican Lobby Card:
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Concisely put, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is the worst movie ever made.
See those colorful and jubilant Martian and Earthian children? The cool retro robot? The jolly, spaceship flying, Santa holding an overstuffed bag of goodies for all the good children in the universe? None of that is in this movie. What is, are Wham-o Air Blaster gun-toting Martian adults in desperate need of NoDoz, a fuddy-duddy Santa, dopey Elves, a dopey robot, Dropo the exceedingly dopey Martian, and even a dopey 800 year-old Martian-in-the-Cave doling advice to the NoDoz Momars and Kimars because their children want presents and holiday cheer and their own Santa.
It is colorless, lifeless, quite reprehensible and, yes, Virginia, the antithesis of that Christmas Spirit we strive to nurture the rest of the year: it is a lump of celluloid coal smudging black the delights of the season.