From Zombos' Closet

Mexican Lobby Card: Chabelo y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos

While I try to find a better condition Mexican lobby card for Chabelo Y Pepito Contra Los Monstruos (1973), enjoy the monsterkid  fun of this one. The movie looks pretty wild on a budget, and there's even a gorilla!

Mexican Lobby Card: The Vindicator (1986)

The Mexican lobby card for The Vindicator, La Venganza De Terminator, seems to stretch the promotion a wee bit by hinting at The Terminator (1984). By the 1980s, Mexican lobby cards went to thin glossy paper and minimal creativity in their layouts. They got smaller in size, too, as the movies got smaller in budget. 

UK Pressbook: Demons of the Mind (1972)

The UK pressbooks for horror and terror movies are normally so neat and proper, you'd expect a cup of tea being sipped while perusing them. Here's the pressbook for Hammer's Demons of the Mind, filled with depravity, incest, and torture. Have a scone on me.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Descuartizador (1991)

Otherwise known as a bad night in the jungle. Low budget movie, odd Mexican lobby card. Not sure how Viggo Mortensen and Leatherface figure into it, but I'm sure they don't appear in this movie. At all. I'm not even sure this is a scene in the movie.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Robo De Las Momias De Guanajuato

Monster Game Board to Die For

I picked this up on Ebay a while back. It's that kind of item that's so exciting, but you're the only one who thinks so, so it goes for dirt cheap. Colorful monster illustrations depicting La Horripicasa De Los Monsters make this a fun  game board for monsterkids to play on (young and old, but I think the older ones will appreciate it more ;). I wonder what the playing pieces look like or if it came with playing cards.

Mexican Lobby Card: Chamber of Horrors (1966)

Mexican Lobby Card: Las Vampiras (1969)

So, I'm thinking all female vampires should wear low-cut tights and elf boots. Great look. And comfortable for all the night-stalking they do. The sewn-on-to-the-arms satin bat wings lend a distinct touch, too.

 

You Too Can Be a Professional Gorilla

Yes, August is here. And with it the summer doldrums intensify along with the heat, the warm ennui increasing as it wafts on the occasional breeze, the laconic malaise growing twixt the brightness of Spring and the promise of the festive Fall (Halloween, baby!) But whenever you're feeling down, just remember these poor bastards, who toiled away in the heat and humidity just for you to complete that jungle picture, dressed in thick, furry, (and probably very itchy) gorilla costumes. Pictures we love to love--or make fun of (alright, I admit it, I love them anyway). I bet you're feeling cooler already.

 

The Clarence Swensen Gorilla Group with Johnny Weissmuller (http://www.erbzine.com/mag41/4169.html)