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Mexican Lobby Card: The Human Duplicators

I don't believe Lon Chaney's Phantom of the Opera appears in The Human Duplicators, but this card makes effective use of his horrific face. Richard Kiel (Jaws) also stands out as the monstrous villain holding one victim's head while dangling another barely dressed victim from his massive arm. Surprisingly, this illustration is taken directly from the American poster, and is not a figment of some underpaid, but highly creative, Mexican artist's mind (just an American one).

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Mexican Lobby Card: Day the World Ended

Roger Corman's fourth movie, The Day the World Ended. Note the card shows "Jorge Corman" as director, and there's a misspelling in "trmendo;" should be "tremendo." I also don't recall a woman running around in a skimpy outfit, especially with all the radioactivity outside. Pay particular attention to the positioning of the two men: one is fighting the monster, the other is holding a gun but facing away from the monster. In the middle is the woman. In this primitive and colorful illustration the artist has told us there's a villain, there's a monster, and there's a hero. Oh, and a beautiful woman caught in the middle. Sadly, this card holds more drama than the movie itself, and it also shows the plot quite well.

Mexican Lobby Card: The Undead

The Undead is one of my favorite AIP movies. According to Wikipedia "The movie was filmed in a converted supermarket, and was completed in only six days. Its original title was The Trance of Diana Love. The bats that the imp and witch continually change into were left over from another Corman movie, It Conquered the World." This Mexican artist's version of the poster art adds more bats and less nightgown.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Mundo De Los Muertos

Mexican Lobby Card: Operacion Terror

Mexican Lobby Card: La Mansion Del Terror

Mexican Lobby Card: La Maldicion De Los Vampiros

Mexican Lobby Card: Pesadilla De Terror

Mexican Lobby Card: Demonoid, Messenger of Death

Here's the Mexican lobby card for Demonoid: Messenger of Death, a joint Mexico and U.S. production. (I linked to Dimension Fantastica's post on the movie.)

Mexican Lobby Card: Dementia 13

The vivid illustration mimics the more exploitable elements of the U.S. poster art for Dementia 13. It's odd that the number 13 was not added. This title could stand in for John Parker's Dementia, too, but the credits and artwork indicate otherwise.

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Mexican Lobby Card: Squirm

Certain horror movies get under your skin. Squirm is one of them. Ummm...no pun intended. One of Rick Baker's early makeup-work movies. I'd say this stomach-turning card gets the job done.

Mexican Lobby Card: El Vampiro Sangriento

Here's the Azteca lobby card version of El Vampiro Sangriento