zc

Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards

The Loves of Hercules (1960)
Mexican Lobby Card

/ Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards / Leave a Comment

Interesting title switch for this Mexican lobby card for The Loves of Hercules. La Venganza de Hercules implies the Mark Forest vehicle (although he plays Goliath, not Hercules), Goliath and the Dragon. Mickey Hargitay battles against the glamorous Queen Hippolyta who wants to turn him into a tree, and a three-headed dragon in the Underworld that just wants to eat him. I'll leave it up to you to decide which one is more dangerous. All I can say is Steve Reeves will always be MY Hercules. This is an enjoyably bad movie to be enjoyed in the company of fellow bad movie lovers. 

Vengeance of hercules

Loves of hercules

The Batwoman (1968)
Mexican Lobby Card

/ Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards / Leave a Comment

Yes, in the movie, she does fight crime in her bikini outfit. Some crazy scientist is grabbing wrestlers for their spinal fluid to make a gill man. Every villain needs a gill man. Now that I know about her, I'm sorry she never hooked up with Adam West's Batman. You can see a trailer on YouTube and grab a 27×40 poster on Amazon. Not that I ordered it or anything like that, of course.

Bat-woman

 

Curse of the Demon (1957)
Mexican Lobby Card

/ Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards / Leave a Comment

Of course the original title, Night of the Demon, wasn't sensational enough for American distribution, so they went and spiced it up with  the change to Curse of the Demon, while splicing out some minutes of the original running time, too, unwisely. This is an excellent supernatural horror that is brought home by the appearance of the demon (a hotly contested point to be sure), another Americanization, over the objections of director and writer Jacques Tourneur and Charles Bennett. For an engrossing read on the movie's production trials and tribulations, get Tony Earnshaw's book, Beating the Devil: The Making of the Night of the Demon.

Curse of the demon