Following the merchandising motherlode principle set by Star Wars, Disney's The Black Hole promotion team created product tie-ins aplenty. This pressbook is a fantastic example of how meticulously the marketing campaign was planned and executed for the movie.
Terry Michitsch, once again, has come to the rescue to provide additional scans of missing pages for this enjoyable pressbook, another Ray Harryhausen and Willis O'Brien treat. Some of these stop-motion scenes wound up in the Night Gallery's, The Painted Mirror episode and the Joan Crawford tearjerker, Trog.
There's so much Freudian mischief going on in the poster art for Night of Dark Shadows, it makes me love it even more. The Blu-ray edition hits the shelves and mailboxes on October 30th. If it contains the deleted footage, I'll be quite happy indeed.
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All the pages of this 8.5 x 14 inches movie pressbook for Scream and Scream Again are here, but I've jumbled the order to move the poster ad mats toward the end and bring the text articles toward the front. The poster art does scream horror at you, doesn't it?
This colorful herald for theater promotion of King Kong (1933) is being auctioned at the Heritage Sunday Internet Movie Poster Auction #161239 (4" X 7" closed and 4" X 16" opened).
The poster art for Invasion of the Animal People is scrumptiously insane. "Giants of the ages run amuck in icy death attack controlled by alien brains!" Say what? And since I've a penchant for using redundant leading letters on words myself, this tagline is awesome (in my humble opinion): "Monsters walk the earth in ravishing rampage of clawing fury!" Terror of the Bloodhunters has the better title, but note how it's ignored in the advertising campaign for this "exploitation natural" double bill.
Terror For Egg Heads. The American International pressbooks for Roger Corman's Poe movies push the classy-horror angle with style. (Note: all the pages are here, but were rearranged for scanning.)
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I was very disappointed to realize I was missing The She Creature insert pages to this double bill pressbook. Thanks to Tony Rivers and his scans from his copy of the pressbook, they are now added.
Not sure if I've got all the pages in this Xeroxed copy of the large-sized Dracula's Daughter pressbook, but the fold-out Showmanship pages are exquisitely dense with promotion ideas. I had to split them into sections in order to scan them at a readable resolution, but I provided the complete page-spread to show you how it looks (top and bottom). Possibly the most unusual movie in Universal's horror cycle, even the promotion stresses the "weird feeling" she will give you.
(Note: Due to the large size of the pressbook, each page was originally Xeroxed into two halves. Unfortunately, whoever did the Xeroxing mismatched the resolution between the two halves of page 3, so they do not line up properly. I rescaled them as best I could. Also, deterioration at the fold has removed a line of text through the columns of pages 2 and 3.)
I had to split a few single pages into two scans, in order to make them readable, so this 11 x 17 inches pressbook, printed in landscape orientation, shows more pages than it actually contains. The poster art is to die for. Journey to the Seventh Planet is one of my guilty favorites as a youngster. I never failed to watch it when it was on network television. One interesting tidbit: Roger Corman's Galaxy of Terror uses the same plot device: space men encountering their worst fears on a distant planet.
