From Zombos' Closet: Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards

Mexican Lobby Card: The Green Hell

The Mexican lobby card for Kautschuk, 1938 (aka The Green Hell), a German adventure movie. I'm not sure if the illustration is German or Mexican in origin, but it sure as hell makes me want to see this movie.

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Mexican Lobby Card: The Sharkfighters

Not a horror movie, but the man against sharks illustration is still terror-packed in this Mexican lobby card for The Sharkfighters (1956).

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Mexican Lobby Card: Screamers

And I bet you thought Barbara Bach was only the Bond Girl, didn't you?

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Mexican Lobby Card: The Body Snatcher

Striking profile images of an aging Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, against a colorful landscape of pastel tombstones and a hanging man swinging against a fiery sky, highlight this Mexican lobby card for The Body Snatcher (1945).

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Mexican Lobby Card: Castle of Blood

This Mexican lobby card for La Danza Macabra (Castle of Blood, 1964) resonates with murder and ghostly frights. There's a little Charles Addams in the key illustration of Barbara Steele and the others standing in front of the ominous moonlit mansion: reminds of the Addams Family cartoons.

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Mexican Lobby Card: Devils of Darkness

Sex, terror, death, decay, the undead, and Satanic elements, illustrated in a pyschedelic swash of colors, make this Mexican lobby card for Llamado De Ultratumba (Devils of Darkness, 1965) a wonderful example of artful exploitation.

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Mexican Lobby Card: The Baby

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Mexican Lobby Card: Bigfoot

Why do apes and ape-like monsters always go for the girls? Just asking. It's staggering how many gut-wrenchingly bad movies John Carradine acted in. He deserved better. This Mexican lobby card for Bigfoot (1970) at least promotes the King Kong tie-in (although there isn't any), and highlights the proper way a monster should carry a girl: over the shoulder; the arms tire too quickly, no matter how big and hairy you are.

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Mexican Lobby Card:
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

What drew me to this card is the primitive spook house ride illustration. I believe this Mexican lobby card is for Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, also known as The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1933).

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Mexican Lobby Card: Crypt of the Vampire

This Mexican lobby card for La Cripta Del Terror has it all: bats, skeleton, crypt, death, victim (suitably undressed), would be rescuer, moonlight, and a dollop of seedy exploitation guaranteed to bring in the audience every time. The colors are vivid, the promise of horror palpable. Oh, and having Christopher Lee in the movie doesn't hurt, either.

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Mexican Lobby Card: The Bat

Vincent Price looks so natural with that big bat flying about his head, don't you think?

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Mexican Lobby Card: Curse of the Undead

An interesting Universal Studios production, Curse of the Undead (1959) mixed Wild West with vampiric gunslinger. Can't you just see Brad Pitt in the remake?