Beautifully balanced layout from left to right, effective choice of colors, and a weird, almost comical, vampire bat with human head make this lobby card visually appealing. And, of course, the sinister abode to complete the terror looms in the bottom right corner.
Horribly scarred face? Gloomy mansion? Bald-headed, deformed dwarf in leather boots brandishing sharp pike? Must be a horror movie.
An unusually sedate Mexican lobby card. The foreground illustration and inset picture push a romance-in-peril theme as the monsters hang out in the background.
I admit it: I couldn't pass up the cute little maniacal monkey with the big hypodermic needle. Just look at that crazed, glassy-eyed stare. The inset picture's not too shabby either. Horror and straight razors go together like cereal and milk.
Note the background spider web (similar to the use of it on posters and lobby cards for the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi) to accentuate El Vampiro's blood-sucking trap of doom. Interestingly, the picture here is an actual photograph that's glued to the lobby card, which is one of the reasons I picked this up. The tilt of the photograph, the emanating spider web, and the vampire as pivotal point the rest of the illustration flows from, gives this card's layout a more sophisticated execution.
I don't know, but this lobby card seems too low key. What do you think? “La Bestia de La Noche Amarilla” is a great example of how bold a Mexican lobby card can be. The common element here, of domination over a provocatively dressed female victim, is highlighted by each illustration: the monster’s blood-dripping, bone-chewing mouth looming over her; the monster’s beastly hand reaching for yet another screaming female victim; the monster standing over a victim. The illustrations don’t connect visually except for themes of brutal dominance and helplessness. This movie is a Phillipino/U.S. production.
Not a particularly striking example of Mexican lobby card art, but it gets the job done.
Superbly lurid illustration makes this an exciting Mexican lobby card. And, once again, the gasping woman stereotype (aided by a strategically drooping shirt), sells the terror to potential male audience members. Blood-drooling gorillas do it for me, too, by the way.
This Mexican lobby card for Humanoids From the Deep perplexes me. Usually the photograph is not so prominently placed as shown here, and there's a large amount of dead space between it and the text and illustration.
Scantily-clad, screaming women are a staple of bad horror movies. What's interesting here is the contrast between the fully-clothed screaming woman in the movie, and the imagined screaming woman in the illustration. Artistic liberty? Good, suggestive advertising? Cheap gimmick? You be the judge.