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Dr. Strangelove (1964) Mexican Lobby Card

What's old is new again. Here's the Mexican lobby card for Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

Danger: Diabolik (1968) Herald

Here's the movie herald for Danger: Diabolik. 

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The Gorilla (1939) Mexican Lobby Card

Even though Bela Lugosi appears in this small effort with the Ritz Brothers, he's nowhere to be seen on this Mexican lobby card for The Gorilla. Not even Lionel Atwill, who also appears, shows up here. 

The House of Hammer Issue 10, 1978

Brian Lewis's cover art and John Bolton's Curse of the Werewolf  highlight this issue.

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The Devil's Rain (1975) Mexican Lobby Card

Here's the Mexican lobby card for The Devil's Rain. You can see the pressbook here. I can best sum it up by saying a lot of people melt at the end. So either fast forward or plan on spending little quality time until the end. Great poster art, though. And the makeup effects are good. A lot of movies came out in the 1970's, on television and in the theater, with stories about satanists and witchcraft and all that. Not sure why. This is one of those movies. Now, if we were talking Race with the Devil (1975), of which you can see the pressbook here, that's worth your while.

The House in Nightmare Park (1973) Mexican Lobby Card

Still need to watch this one. Here's the Mexican lobby card for The House in Nightmare Park. It simply pulls illustrations, albeit wonderful ones, from the poster art for the movie. You can see the pressbook here.

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (1966) Pressbook

If only this cheerless movie could have been a "wasn't" we'd be all the better for it. No magic, no wonder, and no fun whatsoever. Dreary sums it up. Fruitcake has more going for it.

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Mayhem (2017)

Zombos Says: Very Good 

Director Joe Lynch and writer Matias Caruso deliver a slick and acerbic paycheck of an office-bound slaughterfest with Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Voltron) and Samara Weaving (Ash vs Evil Dead, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) hammering, nail-gunning, and power-tooling their way to the boardroom on the top floor. The slapstick-gore, inhibition-releasing adrenaline rush that a virus unleashes in a big office building law firm provides opportunities for jabs and stabs that go beyond the copious blood-letting. Who wouldn't want to unleash their inner beast on the corporate mime and grime they wade through every day? Having it happen to lawyers is just so much more icing on the cake (as cinema often tells us).

Made to look the fall guy by slick shark manager "the Siren" (Caroline Chikezie), Derek (Steven Yeun) is fired and hustled out the building, almost. A S.W.A.T team pulls up with guns tightly aimed at anyone attempting to leave. The building is put on quarantine after a sensor tips off the feds to the airborne virus that turns one eye red of those infected. Let the mayhem begin.

Ever since Captain Kirk and his crew dealt with inhibition-releasing germs in The Naked Time, horror and sci fi cinema has delivered a smorgasbord of variations on the theme. Here, the mood is more grindhouse artsy (just look at the movie's poster art), and cheeky, when Derek pairs up with Melanie (Samara Weaving), a very unhappy, soon-to-be-evicted-from-her-home-by the-evil-corporate-law-firm-David-works-for, all too happy revenge-seeker. Excuses can be made since it was David's law firm that pioneered the non-liability defense for anyone infected. They gleefully crack open the tool cage, gear up, and do things we never saw on This Old House.

Camera handler Steve Gainer (and the editing) moves gracefully between the slaying and the quiet moments of reflection (well, not that quiet), through the bright white hallways and into the darker elevator and boardroom. The elevator to the boardroom, of course, provides a metaphor for climbing the corporate ladder as Derek and Melanie go after the keycards needed to take them to the top, where the cocaine-sniffing "The Boss," (Steven Brand), waits with his wine-sipping board members, who are hoping to ride out the contagion mayhem.

Most anyone who has worked in a corporate setting will certainly cheer Derek and Melanie on.

 

 

Magick Theatre Issue No.8, 1987

The pro-zine Magick Theatre, put out by Raymond Young, was always a long reading experience as it was packed with content. In this issue there is an interview with Forrest J. Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine), Susan Cabot (The Wasp Woman) is remembered and Review O Rama provides critiques for your viewing pleasure, with the Movie Noose Reel providing the low-down on remakes, half-bakes, and well-dones. And still more to enjoy and bring back memories.