From Zombos' Closet

Movie Pressbook: The Howling (1981)

Promo Flyer: The Saturday Night Chiller

Professor Kinema asks "How much SHOCK! can you take?"

The Haunted Palace (1963) Movie Pressbook

This large American International pressbook for The Haunted Palace presents very well and sells the movie to theaters with style.

 

Movie Pressbook: Trog (1970)

I'm not sure who I found more frightening in this movie: Trog or Joan Crawford?

Macabro (1966)

Sick or bizarre? Male Geisha Girls! Dare YOU see Macabro? Is it more shocking than Twitter and MySpace? You be the judge!

When a Stranger Calls (1979) Pressbook

Raw Meat (1973) Pressbook

All I can say is, if Donald Pleasence and Christopher Lee are in it, it must be good. And I bet you thought the New York City subway "grind" was tough. The ever tasteless exploitation section's Butcherettes and Choice Cuts Bally would probably not "cut" it today. Great poster art, though.

Cannibal Girls (1973) Pressbook

Here's a movie with Welcome Back Kotter's Eugene Levy. I dont' think he made many movies, especially ones with cannibal girls in them. The warning bell (dinner bell?) gimmick is nifty. This one has tender, juicy hippies, too.

Deathmaster (1972) Pressbook

Here's another movie Robert Quarry played a vampire in. It's got hippies, too. That's about it.

 

Westworld (1973) Pressbook

Considering the latest developments in robotics, this may not be that far off.

Teenage Monster (1958) Pressbook

Howco International distributed many Drive-In movies during the 1950s, and their campaign books (sometimes presented as a folder with inserts if  a double-bill) are concise and neatly arranged. This campaign book is for Teenage Monster. Two things you should know about this movie: Jack Pierce had a hand in the hairy monster's makeup, and it's a horror western that takes place around 1880. Otherwise, it doesn't live up to the "teenage titan of terror on a lustful binge" billing. 

Dementia 13 (1963) Pressbook

The movie gimmick here is the D-13! Test, a questionaire theaters could hand out to "...screen out those persons who may be adversely affected by this picture." Question 12 is the one I'd pay particular attention to: "The most effective way of settling a dispute is with one quick stroke of the axe to your adversary's head?" I'd answer yes to that one. How about you?