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Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy)

Dracula and Plague of the Zombies
Double Bill Pressbook

What I love about this large-format, foldout, double bill movie pressbook for Hammer's Dracula, Prince of Darkness and The Plague of the Zombies are the promotional giveaways offered: vampire fangs for boys  and zombie eyes (the old x-ray eyeglasses doing double duty here) for girls.

Cool gimmicks, but sexist in the wording: note how boys get to "fight back…bite back" with Dracula's fangs, and the girls get to "defend" themselves "with zombie eyes." Of course, if you choose to think about it all a tad deeper, you'd eventually puzzle over how zombie eyes could defend against vampire fangs. Any suggestions?

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

dracula and plague of the zombies pressbook

The Gorgon and
The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb
Double Bill Pressbook

The Black Stamps giveaway, mentioned in this Double Bill pressbook for The Gorgon and The Curse of the Mummy, didn't really have any purpose. S&H Green Stamps, given away by supermarkets (I recall my mom pasting all those stamps into her saver book, filling it page by page) would allow you to trade them in for something desirable at the redemption center. There was no redemption center for Black Stamps. But being a horror movie fan, I'd have died to get them anyway. Natch!

double bill gorgon pressbook