With a gorgeous wraparound cover and coverage on The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, television's Frankenstein: The True Story, and a slaymate of the month pinup with Caroline Munro, this issue is worth the cover price of 75 cents right there. Then there's the interview with Invasion of the Body Snatchers director Don Siegel, foreign movie coverage with Jonathan, and the indispensable Frankenstein TV Movieguide.
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Not a very appealing Mexican lobby card for Lucio Fulci's Young Dracula, but it is a horror-comedy so that explains the illustration. The overwhelming use of text, uneven colors, large sizing, and ill-chosen typeface, makes this lobby card so-so and haphazard in layout.
Another low-budget movie about alien spouses that is surprisingly engaging and deeper than it appears. See more movie pressbooks From Zombos' Closet.
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Sure, AIP produced those wonderful Roger Corman and Vincent Price horror movies. Then there's stuff like this.
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Read my review of this solid entry into the creepy slasher genre.
Don't let the title fool you. I Married a Monster from Outer Space is an excellent science fiction horror that delivers its chills with a nice noirish overtone.
The old cowboy movie pressbooks are usually chock full of promotion. Being a singing cowboy sure helps, too. Take that, Buzz Lightyear! I was very lucky to find this pressbook with some of the original newspaper printing mats. I'm not that familiar with these, but I'm guessing they would be used to make the metal plates used for typesetting the movie ad into the page or for theater heralds.
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The only science fair I ever entered was the one Sister Miriam held at St. Mary Mother of Jesus school in Brooklyn. Sister Miriam was awesome. She also didn't last long as a nun. She cared too much and was more of a social action person that simply getting to a nunnery just couldn't handle. She was also young and pretty hot, but that's my kid hormones remembering how great she and her science classes were. She was the one who lit the fire of learning for me. Not many people, even nuns, can light those fires, but she certainly did. My science fair entry was a Radio Shack hodgepodge of stuff to make a remote controlled box that moved around, umm, remotely. She liked it. It was pretty sad as an entry. I doubt I'd survive a real, full-blown, science fair like the one shown in this movie. How could I? Radio Shack isn't around anymore.
At a time when science keeps getting the backhand from government and the ignorant, we need science fairs more than ever. Science Fair opens in theaters beginning in New York on September 14, 2018; Los Angeles on September 21, 2018 and other cities following.
Here's the neatly pressed information for Science Fair.
Directed by first time feature filmmakers Cristina Costantini (also a former science fair winner in her teens) and Darren Foster, Science Fair follows nine high school students from around the globe navigating rivalries, setbacks, and of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at the international science fair. Facing off against 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different countries, only one will be named Best in Fair.
The Story: Hailed by critics as "immensely likeable," "brilliant and quirky" and an "ode to the teenage science geeks on who our future depends," and winner of the audience award at Sundance and SXSW, National Geographic Documentary Films' SCIENCE FAIR follows nine high school students from around the globe as they navigate rivalries, setbacks and, of course, hormones, on their journey to compete at The International Science and Engineering Fair. As 1,700 of the smartest, quirkiest teens from 78 different countries face off, only one will be named Best in Fair. The film, from Fusion and Muck Media and directed by the DuPont Award-winning and Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaking team Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster, offers a front seat to the victories, defeats and motivations of an incredible group of young men and women who are on a path to change their lives, and the world, through science.
Among the subjects the documentary follows include:
Kashfia, one of the only Muslim girls at a massive high school in South Dakota, who finds an unlikely kinship with her school’s head football coach who doubles as her science fair coach;
Myllena and Gabriel, teenagers from a poor town in Brazil, who see winning the science fair as their families’ key to escaping poverty; and
Dr. McCalla, a black science research teacher from Long Island, who has transformed her class of young immigrants into one of the best science fair teams in the world.
The Deadly China Doll pressbook is light on article information or promotional material, but it does use pictures and poster art to sell this action movie. You may remember Angela Mao from her brief appearance in Enter the Dragon. If you haven't seen her other movies, shame on you.
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An enjoyable Amicus and AIP offering, even if Mystery Science Theater 3000 poked fun at it (although that was enjoyable too). Caroline Munro and Peter Cushing are always engaging, and Doug McClure may have hit a rough patch in his acting career, but he presents a solid character to deal with all the mayhem. The flying creatures are jaw-dropping, but I'd still want a model kit or vinyl figure depicting one of them. See more movie pressbooks From Zombos' Closet.
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Edgar Rice Burroughs enduring character has been portrayed by many actors. My favorite is Johnny Weissmuller. Gordon Scott had the most muscles, but Weissmuller had more of that I'm-living-in-the-jungle look. Lex Barker had it to a lesser degree. No one ever showed the scars and bruises endemic to tangling with wild animals and scratchy tree bark and underbrush, though. Go figure. Who is your favorite Tarzan?
