From Zombos' Closet

Mexican Lobby Card: The Blood on Satan's Claw

Mexican Lobby Card: The Fall of the House of Usher

Mexican Lobby Card: El Demonio Sanguinario

I'm not quite sure who's the demonic beast in this one. The lady pulling on the centaur's mane, which he doesn't seem happy about, gets my vote, I'd say.

Mexican Lobby Card: Mad Doctor of Blood Island

A lurid illustration, great use of color and title text style, and a snapshot of monster acting monstrous makes this lobby card a schlocky delight.

Mexican Lobby Card: All the Colors of the Dark

Simple but effective use of a skull illustration highlights this Mexican lobby card.

Mexican Lobby Card: The Dark

Remember the early Frankenstein movie poster where the Monster appears to be a giant and he has this death ray beam coming from one of his eyes? I wonder where the artist got the idea for this one.

Mexican Lobby Card: Echenme Al Vampiro

Beautifully balanced layout from left to right, effective choice of colors, and a weird, almost comical, vampire bat with human head make this lobby card visually appealing. And, of course, the sinister abode to complete the terror looms in the bottom right corner.

Mexican Lobby Card: The Blood Rose

Horribly scarred face? Gloomy mansion? Bald-headed, deformed dwarf in leather boots brandishing sharp pike? Must be a horror movie.

Mexican Lobby Card: The Mutations

An unusually sedate Mexican lobby card. The foreground illustration and inset picture push a romance-in-peril theme as the monsters hang out in the background.

Mexican Lobby Card: Monkey Shines

I admit it: I couldn't pass up the cute little maniacal monkey with the big hypodermic needle. Just look at that crazed, glassy-eyed stare. The inset picture's not too shabby either. Horror and straight razors go together like cereal and milk.

Mexican Lobby Card: La Loba

This Mexican lobby card has a very stylish primitive composition. 

Mexican Lobby Card: El Vampiro

Note the background spider web (similar to the use of it on posters and lobby cards for the original Dracula with Bela Lugosi) to accentuate El Vampiro's blood-sucking trap of doom. Interestingly, the picture here is an actual photograph that's glued to the lobby card, which is one of the reasons I picked this up. The tilt of the photograph, the emanating spider web, and the vampire as pivotal point the rest of the illustration flows from, gives this card's layout a more sophisticated execution.