This serial contains two horror staples: an ape and a robot. I love it. Forget the story, I just want to see the ape and the robot beat each other up. Hey! Wait a minute…what if you put a zombie up against an ape? I think I just got the new spook show theme for the 21st Century!
Bride of the Gorilla, written and directed by Curt Siodmak. Apes, girls, what's not to love? Steve Calvert played the gorilla, but he only appeared toward the end so he didn't get a credit. A production note on Wikipedia says "Edward G. Robinson Jr. was originally cast for the movie but was fired by the producers after his arrest for writing a bad check for $138 to the Laguna Beach Garage." Lucky him. Raymond Burr and Lon Chaney Jr. also starred. And notice, I managed to avoid any "second banana" jokes!
Comic book reader version: Download Bride of the Gorilla Pressbook
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Note: As mentioned in Part 1, pages 9 and 10 (page 10 is the first page shown here) had a picture clipped, which impacts some of the articles and the Shooting “The Animal Word” With Camera feature on these pages. When I find another another example of this pressbook with the pages intact, I’ll update the scans.
“Fabulous tie-ins” is an understatement. From store displays, toys, food, books, puzzles, clothing, trading cards, and more, Disney tied The Black Hole to an amazing assortment of merchandise. My favorite is the model kit for Maximilian. I enjoyed putting it together and displaying it.
Following the merchandising motherlode principle set by Star Wars, Disney’s The Black Hole promotion team created product tie-ins aplenty. This pressbook is a fantastic example of how meticulously the marketing campaign was planned and executed for the movie.
Terry Michitsch, once again, has come to the rescue to provide additional scans of missing pages for this enjoyable pressbook, another Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien treat. Some of these stop-motion scenes wound up in the Night Gallery's, The Painted Mirror episode and the Joan Crawford tearjerker, Trog.
There's so much Freudian mischief going on in the poster art for Night of Dark Shadows, it makes me love it even more. The Blu-ray edition hits the shelves and mailboxes on October 30th. If it contains the deleted footage, I'll be quite happy indeed.
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All the pages of this 8.5 x 14 inches movie pressbook for Scream and Scream Again are here, but I've jumbled the order to move the poster ad mats toward the end and bring the text articles toward the front. The poster art does scream horror at you, doesn't it?
This colorful herald for theater promotion of King Kong (1933) is being auctioned at the Heritage Sunday Internet Movie Poster Auction #161239 (4" X 7" closed and 4" X 16" opened).
The poster art for Invasion of the Animal People is scrumptiously insane. "Giants of the ages run amuck in icy death attack controlled by alien brains!" Say what? And since I've a penchant for using redundant leading letters on words myself, this tagline is awesome (in my humble opinion): "Monsters walk the earth in ravishing rampage of clawing fury!" Terror of the Bloodhunters has the better title, but note how it's ignored in the advertising campaign for this "exploitation natural" double bill.
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Double Bill Pressbook:
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Terror For Egg Heads. The American International pressbooks for Roger Corman's Poe movies push the classy-horror angle with style. (Note: all the pages are here, but were rearranged for scanning.)
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I was very disappointed to realize I was missing The She Creature insert pages to this double bill pressbook. Thanks to Tony Rivers and his scans from his copy of the pressbook, they are now added.