From Zombos' Closet

Double Bill Pressbook: A Date With Death and Hideous Sun Demon

Movie Pressbook: Young Frankenstein (1974)

Foreign Movie Posters With Boris Karloff

Double Bill Pressbook: Screaming Skull and Terror From the Year 5,000 Part 1

Double Bill Pressbook: Screaming Skull and Terror From the Year 5,000 Part 2

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I'm not sure, but I don't think you can use the term "hideous She-Thing!" in publicity anymore. Unless you're a politician, of course.

Movie Pressbook: Battle of the Worlds and Atomic Age Vampire

This is the first pressbook I've come across that devotes page space to a second movie, but doesn't list it on the cover. Atomic Age Vampire appears on the last 3 pages.

Movie Pressbook: Death Race 2000 (1975)

This low budget cult movie was ahead of its time in depicting reality television programming. We've not reached the point of this or The Running Man, but I wonder how long it will take before we do?

Movie Pressbook: Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)

Foreign Horror Movie Posters With Bela Lugosi

Foreign Horror Movie Posters With Boris Karloff

Battle For The Planet Of The Apes (1973) Pressbook

The final chapter? Who are they kidding?

 

Dracula and Plague of the Zombies Double Bill Pressbook

What I love about this large-format, foldout, double bill movie pressbook for Hammer's Dracula, Prince of Darkness and The Plague of the Zombies are the promotional giveaways offered: vampire fangs for boys  and zombie eyes (the old x-ray eyeglasses doing double duty here) for girls.

Cool gimmicks, but sexist in the wording: note how boys get to "fight back...bite back" with Dracula's fangs, and the girls get to "defend" themselves "with zombie eyes." Of course, if you choose to think about it all a tad deeper, you'd eventually puzzle over how zombie eyes could defend against vampire fangs. Any suggestions?