Not a very appealing Mexican lobby card for Lucio Fulci's Young Dracula, but it is a horror-comedy so that explains the illustration. The overwhelming use of text, uneven colors, large sizing, and ill-chosen typeface, makes this lobby card so-so and haphazard in layout.
Read my review of this solid entry into the creepy slasher genre.
Don't let the title fool you. I Married a Monster from Outer Space is an excellent science fiction horror that delivers its chills with a nice noirish overtone.
Edgar Rice Burroughs enduring character has been portrayed by many actors. My favorite is Johnny Weissmuller. Gordon Scott had the most muscles, but Weissmuller had more of that I'm-living-in-the-jungle look. Lex Barker had it to a lesser degree. No one ever showed the scars and bruises endemic to tangling with wild animals and scratchy tree bark and underbrush, though. Go figure. Who is your favorite Tarzan?
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Peplum and pirates. And a beast. And Kirk Morris keeps his shirt off a lot. Interesting to note that the woman in distress here has less "coverage" than the original poster art.
Alien invader runs around while government types talk a lot. Not much happens.
Here are the 3D and 2D Mexican lobby cards for House of Wax. I saw it on the big screen when it was re-released in 1971. The moment when Charles Bronson appears to jump from a theater seat and onto the screen is one I'll always remember.
“It’s one of the great Hollywood stories,” Vincent Price recalled. “When they wanted a director for [a 3-D] film, they hired a man who couldn’t see 3-D at all! André de Toth was a very good director, but he really was the wrong director for 3-D. He’d go to the rushes and say, ‘Why is everybody so excited about this?’ It didn’t mean anything to him. But he made a good picture, a good thriller. He was largely responsible for the success of the picture. The 3-D tricks just happened—there weren’t a lot of them. Later on, they threw everything at everybody.” (Film Retrospective: House of Wax 1953)
Here's a mix of it's-a-crime Mexican lobby cards to keep you on the straight and narrow.
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The movie is listed as a crime drama, and the Opio, La Droga Maldita Mexican lobby cards hint at something sinister and unsavory.
A thrilling lobby card to be sure. Peter Cushing makes an energetic Holmes, although they should have kept the glowing paint on the hound, instead of the mask.
Apes menacing under-dressed women is a B-movie staple. Here's your example of the day courtesy of Mark of the Gorilla. Here's the pressbook.
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Released by Republic Pictures, Jungle Stampede was condemned by the National Legion of Decency; which, not to be confused with the Legion of Doom, was a more sinister legion. I also wonder if the NLoD was actually a bonafide legion or more like a bunch of let's-meet-on-Sunday-over-coffee and condemn some movies we don't want anyone to see people with little else to do.
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