The Comedy of Terrors pressbook is filled with promotion: articles on the notable cast, lots of ballyhoo, and suitably black-humored illustrations. There's even an exclusive caricature and an interview record to hype the movie. Here's the comic book reader version: Download Comedy of Terrors Pressbook
Can't you just smell the chocolate? You don't need a golden ticket to read the Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory pressbook from Zombos' Closet. Here it is for your scrumdidilyumptious pleasure. Just don't let Slugworth get a hold of it. What this original movie has over its highly creative remake is more mystery. Not knowing Willy Wonka's backstory, he's more mysterious, more magical, and more sublime. Too many remakes mistake the flash of CGI and the unnecessary origin story as must haves, when they aren't needed for the story proper. ( Download Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Pressbook)
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Here's the movie herald that came with the pressbook for Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I like both the original and the remake, but there's just something a little more special about the original. I think leaving the mystery of Willy Wonka intact is why.
Ray Milland, Hazel Court, and directed by Roger Corman: what's not to love? Here's the comic book reader version: Download Premature Burial Pressbook
A very uneven movie coming from the writer/director of a very endearing one that came later: Lady in White, 1988. Here's the comic reader version: Download Fear No Evil Pressbook
Tommy gets lost in the Belgian Congo and is adopted by Zamba, one big gorilla mom. Tommy's real mom shows up and the fur flies. Of course, no one stops to ask who Tommy rather be with. Jon Hall does his best to keep a straight face. This 6 inches by 9 inches booklet from Denmark, I'm assuming, is a souvenir giveaway for the movie. To be honest, I only wanted it because of the cover. She doesn't appear in the movie. Bummer.
Budget constraints produced a small puppet creature toward the end, which only had two eyes. Note the all important screaming woman with cleavage promotion. A million eyes and that's all it can see. Typical. An interesting movie for its use of elements of animals-against-us and alien mind control, themes that would be expanded on in later movies. Pedantic philosophizing at critical moments indicative of 1950s science fiction, but here it rubs against the action as the delivery is monotone and slow. Roger Corman produced this one for 30,000 dollars. Bet he did well in the drive-in and neighborhood theater circuit. (Thanks to Tony Rivers for providing his scans for this pressbook originally. I have replaced them with new ones from my copy for better readability.)
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Here's the Devil Girl From Mars pressbook courtesy of Tony Rivers. I bet that helmet of hers looks familiar.
Lots of admats and articles make this quite a campaign/pressbook. There are Seventeen magazine and Howard Johnson comic book tie-ins, along with Whirlpool Kitchens and Scholastic magazines. Whew. (Here's your comic book reader version: Download 2001 Space Odyssey Pressbook 24MB.)
You may have an opinion as to the worst movie ever made, but I've got the proof. Just watch this lump of coal, this empty stocking on Christmas morn, this morose, torpid, lackluster cinematic misfire that makes chewing gum stuck to your shoe more fun and endearing. You want to knock the boundless joy out of Buddy the Elf? Just show him this inane, sugarless tart of zero holiday mirthlessness. Yes, Virginia, it's that awful. Truly awful. You've been warned. For criminy sakes, an unmarried, dirty, hermit in a cave gives family advice. Stay away!
You can see the movie theater herald for this double bill here. And if you have a comic reader, here's the cbz file of this Monster From Green Hell and Half Human pressbook. MFGH also appeared with The Brain From Planet Arous (one of my favorites!). According to the DCA Wikipedia entry, "among the last films DCA distributed were Half Human (1958), The Strange World of Planet X (1958), The Crawling Eye (1958), and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959).
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And Half Human
Double Bill Pressbook" »
Here's the movie/theater herald for the double bill of Monster From Green Hell and Half Human. With tags lines like "Half-Man, Half-Beast but All Monster!" and "Nightmare Thrills Beyond Belief!" audiences today may not be enticed into seeing these. Heck, the 2016 presidential race is more nightmare thrills beyond belief than these movies could ever be. I'll leave it up to you to choose who fits the "all monster tag," though.
