The Mark of Zorror (1940)
Mexican Lobby Card
An action-packed movie with lots of swordplay. A young Bruce Wayne attends a showing of it with his parents during that fateful night.
Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards
Mission Stardust (1967)
Mexican Lobby Card
Another 1960s space opera. It's interesting to note the cowboy approach here (guns drawn or blazing), which is used on many Mexican lobby cards for Westerns. I recommend reading Gary Westfahl's The Spacesuit Film: A History, 1918-1969 if you're into "spacesuit" movies.
Jungle Raiders (1945)
Mexican Lobby Card
Here are four Mexican lobby cards for Jungle Raiders, a Columbia 15 episode serial movie.
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The Castle of the Mummies of Guanajuato (1973)
Mexican Lobby Card
Midget minions, mad doctor, mummies, masked wrestlers? Must be a Mexican lucha libre movie!
The Time Machine (1960)
Mexican Lobby Card
Here's the Mexican lobby card for The Time Machine. One of my favorite episodes of the Big Bang Theory, The Nerdvana Annihilation, shows the wonderful prop (not the Bob Burns one but a replica). The Precious Fragmentation, where the boys find a movie-used Lord of the Rings ring, is another nerdy classic.
Degollador de Mujeres (?)
Mexican Lobby Card
I don't know which movie (or television series) this lobby card is for but it packs a wallop with just two illustrations that let your mind's eye sum to a terror-sell for seeing it.
Sharon’s Baby (1975) Mexican Lobby Card
One of the more out-there illustrations for a horror movie. Mother gives birth to baby possessed by dwarf she once spurned. That's pretty out-there too.
Blue Demon y Las Invasoras (1969)
Mexican Lobby Card
It's on YouTube, but in Spanish. Lo siento. See beautiful female aliens handling 1960s "futuristic" set design on a minuscule budget.
The Batwoman (1968)
Mexican Lobby Card
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.
Curse of the Demon (1957)
Mexican Lobby Card
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.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Mexican Lobby Card
While the key movie in the Abbot and Costello monster series is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, this one is still fun and my second favorite.
Crime and Noir Mexican Lobby Cards
Tuck that gun nice and snug under your belt and spit out the chewing gum. Knot up that worn overcoat and tilt your brim a little bit more to the left. Good. Now you're ready to eyeball some nifty Mexican lobby cards with a bent for crime that hits square into a dark corner pocket.
Nightmare 1956
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