From Zombos' Closet

Planet of the Vampires (1965) Mexican Lobby Card

Here's the Mexican lobby card for El Planeta De Los Vampiros, a stylish and atmospheric Italian horror movie.

Planet of the Vampires 1965

Mexican Lobby Card: The Flame Barrier

The Flame Barrier 1958

Mexican Lobby Card: Craze

Crazy art dealer (Jack Palance) sacrifices victims to African god Chuku using a variety of messy techniques. No, haven't seen this one yet. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around Jack Palance cast as an art dealer. 

Craze 1974

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Caribbean

Give me a pirate movie anytime! Love the bloody illustration here: it's so pirate-ty. But sort of makes you NOT want to be a pirate, doesn't it? I'm also sure John Payne wouldn't have liked seeing his name misspelled.

Caribbean 1952

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Beauty and the Beast

According to the IMDb, this is Jack Pierce's last turn at doing makeup for a movie. he deserved better.

Beauty and the Beast 1962

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Not of This Earth

A low budget gem from Roger Corman, this movie always terrified me when I caught it on television in the 1960s. This Mexican lobby card captures the eerie terror quite well.

Not of This Earth 1957

 

Mexican Lobby Card: The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box 1969

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Horrors of the Black Museum

Released in Hypno-Vision! Binoculars with eye-piercing spikes added for good measure.

Horrors of the Black Museum 1959

Mexican Lobby Card: Ebirah vs Godzilla

Godzilla Versus the Sea Monster 1966

 

Mexican Lobby Card: The War of the Gargantuas

Green hairy giant monster fights brown hairy giant monster, with Tokyo, once again, underfoot. Just go with it and its fun.

 

The War of the Gargantuas 1966

 

Mexican Lobby Card: Gorilla at Large

Movies with hairy apes menacing leggy women are a small staple of the horror genre. Fay Wray in King Kong made it fashionable to be dramatically carried away in big hairy arms, and the dramatic contrast between big grunting brute and fragile screaming lady is always good for a thrill, or a laugh, given the man-in-suit special effects of the time.

 

Gorilla at Large 1954

 

Mexican Lobby Card: The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism

Torture? Torture? As Memorial Day and our Mexican Lobby Card Marathon draws to a close, at least these people didn't have to go to work the next day!

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism 1957