Here's a German pressbook for Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. The German pressbooks I've seen so far are usually a one sheet fold-out with a splendid scene-rich centerfold. They also include the ad mats on cheap pulp paper to be cut out and used in newspapers.
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Oh, those wild beatniks. Wild, wild, wild. Could never get the hang of those bongos, though. Rhythm’s just not my bag, man. But I dug the tights the women wore. Slinky and sexy. One of the best horror movies with a beatnik atmosphere is A Bucket of Blood. Sherlock Holmes once quipped about “art in the blood” when discussing Mycroft, but A Bucket of Blood posits blood-in-the-art for a nice kick in the jive. A bucket’s worth, more or less.
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A very enjoyable movie with great Harryhausen special effects. A monsterkid classic. The art direction on a budget for Earth vs. The Flying Saucers (1956) is exemplary. From the weird, featureless alien survival suits to the rotating flying saucers, and let's not forget that fantastic warbling alien voice, it's still fun to watch. Here's the UK pressbook for it.
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The exploitation angle is pushed hard in this pressbook for Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers. That pilot's singular expression, used in the poster art, is so direct, so embracing of suspense, that it's quite a teaser for seeing the move. If it wasn't the cold war fear, it was fear of alien invaders that sipped around the coffee tables of 1950s/1960s suburbia and metropolises.
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Nice amount of promotional tie-in for Gorgo: see the Special Book Editions page for tie-ins to Famous Monsters of Filmland, Charlton Comics (I loved Charlton Comics!), and a movie novelization. Gorgo is one of the better Bs coming out of the 1960s mostly because of the storyline, with an appealing theme of a mom just wanting to protect her child. And what a big mother she is.
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Cold War paranoia, an unstoppable missile blazing a path of destruction and stock footage galore heats up this science fiction quickie to near zero temperature. But this pressbook for The Lost Missile is hot. Intense exploitation poster art and a shock tag theater giveaway (for shock-aphasia!) push the expectations for excitement high even if the movie's payload fizzles.
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The MGM pressbook for Gorgo is as big as, well, Gorgo. Here's part 1 to chew on. See the movie herald here.
For part 2 of this pressbook, go here.
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Here's the double bill pressbook for The Black Torment and The Brain. The Black Torment is a bit too long, and the acting by John Turner is from the scream and hysterics school of melodrama, but this overlooked costume movie has its moments of Gothic chills and atmosphere. Haven't seen The Brain. Yet.
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Double Bill Pressbook:
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Once again, Tony Rivers digs deep into his vault of monsters to release his scans of the Curse of Frankenstein pressbook. The promotional giveaways are superb: monster mask, fluorescent satin badge, and coloring page!
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Captain Clegg (titled Night Creatures for the American market) is one of the lesser know Hammer movies. With Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed, Michael Ripper, and other very good actors, it's an engaging yarn of costume intrigue. The spectral image of the skeleton riders impressed a great deal–I was in the single digits at the time–when I first watched this movie on television. (You can see the Mexican lobby card here.)
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Here's the big movie herald for Gorgo, "The Greatest Motion Picture Ever Produced!" "Picture of a million amazing thrills!" "Like Nothing You've Ever Seen Before!" This tabloid-sized herald was offered in 1 or 2 colors, blank or with the theater's info. See the pressbook here.
I don't recall where I picked this up, but that's par for the course with a lot of stuff in my closet. Although in Spanish, you can see it contains the radio spots and other promotional information for Hammer's The Evil of Frankenstein. Of interest is the Universal Pictures Corp de Mexico in the top left corner.