From Zombos' Closet

El Hombre Sin Rostro (1950) Mexican Lobby Card

Hard to find, El Hombre sin Rostro looks to be a very interesting horror movie. Bloody Pit of Horror has a review. 

Vampiros Nocturnos? Mexican Lobby Card

I'm not sure what movie this Mexican lobby card is for, but I wager it's Big Town After Dark (1947). Although Robert Lowery (Batman and Robin), who is listed on the card, doesn't show as being in this movie (according to IMDb). The card itself sports a superbly dark and scary illustration, one which I doubt depicts anything in the movie, though.

Door to Door Maniac (1966) Mexican Lobby Card

Five Minutes to Live (1961), also known as Door to Door Maniac (AIP's re-release in 1966), stars Johnny Cash. I'm not familiar with the movie but Wikipedia states it's a cult classic. I see it is also available on YouTube. What drew my attention to the movie was this Mexican lobby card 5 Minutos de Vida, which combines primitive but strikingly stylish images with an action inset scene. The colors used also gripped my attention. 

Untamed Women (1952) Mexican Lobby Card

Ah, the good old days, when a big club meant something. And those rock and roll parties were awesome. Although this Mexican lobby card says The Valley of the Dinosaurs, they actually meant to say Untamed Women.

Western Action Mexican Lobby Cards

Here's a handful of colorful Mexican lobby cards for dusty Wild West vaquero action. 

 

El Hijo Del Diablo (1966)

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) Mexican Lobby Card

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad did well in theaters. On a budget of $982,351 it grossed $16 million. I always enjoy watching Tom Baker as the evil Prince Koura. The role led to his becoming the 4th Doctor in Doctor Who.

The Empire of Dracula (1967) Mexican Lobby Card

Great smaller-sized Mexican lobby card for The Empire of Dracula, although a bit confusing for die hard fans as it mixes up a few movies through its illustration and sub-title. The Dracula in the illustration looks like German Robles (El Vampiro, The Vampire's Coffin, not the fang-meister in the inset scene (Eric del Castillo), and The Brides of Dracula ( Las Mujeres de Dracula) this movie is not. I guess they needed all the name recognition they could muster to sell theater tickets. The lobby itself has a wonderful primitiveness to it that's quite colorful. By the way, Dracula in this movie is called Draculstein. Go figure. A sequel character could be called Frankenula. 

Cry Terror! (1958) Mexican Lobby Card

A colorful and exciting (more so than the movie, apparently, based on the critical reviews) Mexican lobby card for Cry Terror!  

The Devil's Widow (1970) Mexican Lobby Card

An adequate but so-so Mexican lobby card for The Ballad of Tam Lin (The Devil's Widow, The Devil's Woman). A section of the poster art is used with an inset scene. Roddy McDowell missed appearing in Beneath the Planet of the Apes while he directed this movie.

Dracula (TV Movie, 1974) Mexican Lobby Card

Dan Curtis's made for television Dracula (Bram Stoker's Dracula), starring Jack Palance, and written by Richard Matheson, was tapped into by Francis Ford Coppola for his Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992). According to Wikipedia, Gene Colon got the idea for his Dracula's appearance (Tomb of Dracula) from seeing Palance in his first hookup with Dan Curtis, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. It's a shame Palance did not continue to play Dracula in other movies. 

The Prey (1984) Mexican Lobby Card

I was thinking The Prey was a straight to VHS endeavor, but IMDb lists New World Pictures as a theatrical distributor so it did have a limited theater run at least.  Here's the blurb from IMDb: "Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love." Sure. And with a tagline like "it's not human, and it's got an axe" I'm still not seeing this one as a big theater draw, but John Kenneth Muir did give it a positive review, so I recommend you read what he says about it to help you make up your mind. The movie was actually completed in 1978 but didn't see release until 1984. 

Red Planet Mars (1952) Mexican Lobby Card

Messages from Mars send the United States into a tizzy. An odd "red scare" movie from the 1950s, Red Planet Mars tosses in God, Nazis technology, the Red Menace, nuclear power, and Peter Graves, and may actually be worth revisiting: its relevance to today's fake news/political meddling, and religious hypocrisies may have been prescient. John L. Balderston and John Hoare wrote it. Balderston's version of the Dracula stage play became the vehicle for Bela Lugosi, and, according to Wikipedia, he was an uncredited contributor to Mark of the Vampire. Unfortunately, the poster art leaves much to be desired.