One of the video nasties, when the UK fretted over such things, a doctor keeps taking eyes without asking. His daughter can't see what all the fuss is about. Richard Basehart plays the crazed doctor and Lance Henriksen lends a scalpel. The artwork on this very larger Mexican lobby card, printed on thin slick paper, is sophisticated in both style and fear factor and is from the US poster art.
A bit of promotional stretching here: 2019: After the Fall of New York is the correct title for this 1983 Sergio Martino directed opus. John Carpenter's 1981 Escape from New York must have done well at the Mexican box office, so why not fake a sequel to make a few more bucks?
When you have to face down Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Frankenstein's monster, and the Mummy, who you gonna call? The Monster Squad! A remake was in the air for a while, but you'd have to have the Wolf Man's nards to dare such a thing with a cult classic. What I'd like to see is a continuation: Frankie needs to be rescued by the grown up kids of the original kids. And who says Dracula and the ghoul gang are done?
Here's a wonderfully spooky collage of elements cut and pasted together. Is that the Crypt Keeper in the top left?
The Mexican lobby card for Rasputin and the Empress, 1932, starring the Barrymores. Notice the attention paid to each person's eyes and where they are staring.
Not a horror movie, but what caught my interest in this Mexican lobby card is the cigar smoking skull and the lively and stylish execution.
At a budget of around $12,000 and a shooting schedule of six days, and with Bela Lugosi ill and addicted to morphine, Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla had more action off the screen. The Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin look-alike duo of Petrillo and Mitchell caused a lot of cursing and threats of lawsuits before this turkey was basted. Bela deserved better.
The Hand of Night (aka Beast of Morocco), 1968
