From Tony Rivers, who notes: “One of my favorite movies from the 1960’s is The Sadist and here’s the complete pressbook for this film. Usually only 4 pages are sold by dealers because they miss the two ad pages.” Those are included here.
Once again, Tony Rivers pulls another terrifying pressbook from his collector's crypt. Tony says " Here's the 12 page press book for AIP's version of Hammer's Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll called House of Fright." Wonderfully expressive cover, don't you think?
Tony Rivers sends along this Hammer Horror duo of terror: Horror of Frankenstein and Scars of Dracula Double Bill pressbook.
Universal Studios produced rich pressbooks for their classic monsters. Here's a notable one for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man. (Read my movie review.) Who can ever forget Song of the New Wine? Thanks to fellow collector Tony Rivers for supplying the black and white scans of this pressbook. Now that I have a copy to0 (take that Tony!), here's the pressbook in full color.
Comic reader version: Download Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man Pressbook
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Note: Pressbook scans courtesy of Tony Rivers. Highlights here are the exhibitor’s letter and the comic strip.
Tony Rivers says “Here’s the AIP pressbook for How to Make a Monster and Teenage Caveman and this time it’s 16 pages. The comic strip page has ordering info for the strip on the back (usually the extra page is one sided – blank on the other side) and it also has a two-page letter with advertising tips too.” Great tagline: It will scare the living yell out of you!
Another wonderful American International double bill, folder-styled, pressbook from the Tony Rivers collection. From Tony: "All these AIP pressbooks from this era had an extra page (I Was a Teenage Werewolf had the page with ads showing the werewolf's face while How to Make a Monster had the comic strip page in color.) While I don't have that page in my pressbook for I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, I found a small picture of it online and am enclosing it as the last page. " (Note: See next to last page for "American News: Frankenstein Versus Dracula" promotional articles).
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Mothra, Yojimbo, and Rodan are my three favorite movies from Toho Studios. This Mothra pressbook is one large sheet folded to form 8 pages, but the Showmanship and ad mat pages are actually printed across 2 pages each, so that's why these scans only show 5 pages.
Pressbook collector Tony Rivers shares another gem from his collection, The Werewolf.
I was very disappointed with this movie. My favorite novel is Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. This movie didn't live up to it. What irritates me the most is how stodgy the direction is, even with Bradbury's screenplay.
Jungle Woman pressbook images courtesy of Tony Rivers.