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Zombos Closet...a vast trove of endearingly cheap thrills, including movie and book reviews, and scans of his collections of cinema pressbooks, goofy paper-cutout Halloween decorations, and his amazing collection of Mexican lobby cards from B-grade films. If you have time to descend into a serious rabbit-hole of marvelous trash-culture nostalgia, visit that site just as soon as you possibly can. (DangerousMinds.net)about this blog From Zombos Closet... This pressbook for Fort Vengeance is more interesting than the movie. The campaign art promoted the red savage theme in the usual way (war paint, axe, feathers, and menacing face). Rita Moreno starred in a cardboard role and sold cardboard bread in a Hollywood Bread tie-in. Interesting to note that bread was a common tie-in (called tie-up here) with westerns, especially for television. The pressbook mentions the movie was filmed in color to bring out the scenic splendor of the Canadian Northwest, but the movie was shot indoors and outdoors in California. ComicRack reader version: Download Fort Vengeance PressbookYou don t need to go on the warpath to see more pressbooks From Zombos Closet. Clean-living prizefighter makes good. Monogram made 12 movies based on Ham Fisher s comic character, Joe Palooka. Lots of movies and shorts in the 1940s and 1950s knocked out stories centered around the boxing ring. We tend to label more contemporary comic book inspired movies as franchise, merchandise, and sequel-itis prone properties, but merchandising and repeated entries for a property started decades ago, even before Star Wars. If it s hot its cloned more than a gaggle of storm troopers, when the force of an insatiable audience kicks in.ComicRack reader version: Download Gentleman Joe Palooka PressbookDon t get boxed in. You can see more prizefighting pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Not until Terry Michitsch sent along these wonderful scans of 20 Million Miles to Earth did I realize William Hopper was playing a lead role in it. Now an ardent Perry Mason fan (the television show with Raymond Burr), Hopper plays Paul Drake, the private detective Mason relies on; so now I need to watch 20 Million Miles again, just to see him in action. TCM s overview mentions how this movie started filming in Italy because Ray Harryhausen wanted to vacation there. Smart move, combining work and play at the same time, and getting paid for it to boot. Harryhausen s Ymir is one of his best creations, with a solid personality and superb body design. Given more budget money, and better scripting, this would be an all out classic.ComicRack reader version: Download 20 Million Miles to Earth PressbookYou don t need to travel 20 million miles to find more pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Courtesy of Joe Dante and Charlie Largent (Trailers From Hell) comes this file copy for The Royal Mounted Rides Again serial. Always interesting are the costs associated with any movie (or serial) promotion. According to the onion skin typewritten page glued (see those annoying brown spots) to page 2, the cost for 6,000 pressbooks came to .233 cents per book; with art work taking 659 dollars for advertising. ComicRack reader version: Download The Royal Mountain Rides Again PressbookYou don t need to ride far to see more pressbooks From Zombos Closet. A particularly anger-laden illustration for I Killed Geronimo makes this Mexican lobby card intense. Being this movie was filmed in 1950, the story makes the Indians the bad guys for buying rifles to protect themselves from the encroaching land grabbers, and the cavalry rides to the rescue eventually. Many of the action scenes were lifted from Stagecoach. Terror in the Haunted House, also known as My World Dies Screaming, was the first movie lensed using Psychorama. If you ve seen The Exorcist, you know what psychorama is: think of those brief flashes of the demon face popping up. In this movie, flashes of a skull were used to subliminally convey terror to the audience, along with other images to convey other emotions. Or so they hoped. ComicRack reader version: Download My World Dies Screaming PressbookSee more flashes of pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Continue reading "My World Dies Screaming (1958) Pressbook" The good old days, when we were focused on enemies from without and Reader s Digest sensations that shocked the nation instead of dodging the rocks we re throwing at each other now. This one s a dramatization of a true hero, Claire Phillips. She spied on the Japanese during World War II and survived a lot of hardship and torture. This pressbook pushes the patriotism and zippo lighters, along with a song, Because of You. The poster art does a good job of exploitation without excess.ComicRack reader version: Download I Was an American Spy PressbookSpy on more pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Continue reading "I Was an American Spy (1951) Pressbook" Here s the theater herald for Walk Into Hell, formerly titled Walk Into Paradise. The movie didn t make any money when it was called Walk Into Paradise, so switching over to Hell did the trick. Americans are like that.You don t need to walk into hell to see more pressbooks from zombos closet. I picked up this advertisement, from 1971, for full color reproductions of some of The Night Gallery portraits. Would love to have these prints instead. Some monster magazines at the time carried advertisements for these prints too. Looking forward to receiving my copy of Rod Serling s Night Gallery: The Art of Darkness, which will show all of the paintings along with commentary and other tidbits of information. One thing you must absolutely do is NOT watch The Night Gallery eps on cable channels like MeTv. Avoid them like the plague. MeTV picked up rights to the 30-minute edited versions that went into syndication. Aside from being butchered to run in a shortened timeframe, they added episodes from The Sixth Sense (also butchered) with Gary Collins and Catherine Ferrar. Rod Serling did new introductions for those episodes, but they aren t Night Gallery. The 30-minute syndicated episodes border on incoherent as editing tricks left them sliced and diced. I was rummaging through the closet today and I found this signed print by Dave Carson. I can t believe it was so long ago that I picked it up. I don t know what s worse: collecting or forgetting what I ve collected. I will say it s both depressing that I forgot about it, but exhilirating that I now remember it. While fans and detractors continue to argue over H.P. Lovecraft s influence and racism, his artistic sway over horror fiction and artists remains steadfast. The Fantomas movies are pretty wild and fun to watch. This Mexican lobby card captures the mystery and, through its use of cartoonish illustration, keeps the mood light. Here s another great pressbook courtesy of Joe Dante and Charlie Largent (Trailers From Hell). This file copy of Raiders of Ghost City pressbook contains a typed, on onion paper, breakdown of the cost for 6000 pressbooks. It rounds to 20 cents per book, with printing and artwork costing the most. Presumably the cost of producing the pressbooks was offset by the sales of promotional material (see the ad mats and showmanship pages) for the theaters promoting the serial.ComicRack reader version: Download Raiders of Ghost City PressbookRaid more pressbooks from Zombos Closet. While reading Roger Zelazny s A Night in the Lonesome October I kept wondering how it could be made into a movie. The challenge is not so much the talking dog, cat, bat, or rat (they are demon sidekicks, of course), but how Zelazny let their dialogues provide the main flow of the story. The reader needs to rely on the dog named Snuff, and his powers of observation, because he is the one narrating what is happening each day of October, leading up to the eventful battle royale that will take place on Halloween; but his owner is Jack the Ripper, so there is some question as to his sense of good versus evil nose sniffing to be sure.That pending battle, with the apocalyptic tendencies, will be waged by the openers and the closers. The openers are more the bad players and the closers are more the good players, but since Saucy Jack, along with Snuff, are on the good players side, using the term good requires some stretching. Count Dracula is also in the game, but no one really knows which side he ll be on when push comes to shove as those slimy, multi-tentacled monstrosities, looking for a new footfold into our dimension, make their move on Halloween night. And so the game begins in this Victorian period piece, played over each day, with each demon sidekick doing a lot of the legwork, trying to figure out who will be an opener or a closer, and how the lines of power are being drawn in the neighborhood. As the maneuverings for power take place, Sherlock Holmes (referred to as the Great Detective), dons disguise and guile to reveal the mystery emanating from the deadly game. Even Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, puts down all fours, providing assistance to Snuff. What part Talbot will play at the end can go a tail wag either way, but he proves invaluable to Snuff. If Lon Chaney Jr. keeps popping into your head as you read, you will already know how Talbot will play it. Snuff is rather stiff-lipped and steely pawed and clever at gaining information while strategically sharing it. Mostly with Graymalk the cat as the two strike up an unlikely alliance. Each helps the other out of bad spots as the days move closer to the eventful night. Zelazny keeps his words and paragraphs stiff-lipped too, and there is a prim tempo to each chapter; one chapter for each day in October, with the first one putting the reader imediately into the story with little fanfare. Interesting little tidbits of the uncanny wind up in odd places. There s Jack s monsters trapped in a mirror and furniture, always looking to escape; a human sacrifice is chained, awaiting her doom; a tour of a Lovecraftian dreamscape where ancient beings wait patiently to walk the earth again, and murder most fowl when the going gets rough. Zelazny writes it all as matter of factly as possible, with close calls, bodies turning up, and the tools of the dark arts trade slowly revealing themselves. His economy of words creates a magical opening all by itself, wherein the reader can infer much and imbue each player in this great game, either good or bad, with feelings and intentions, even if that player crawls, flys, howls or walks on two legs by night. His description of Dracula s actions, merely a few drops of blood worth, is more chilling than any of the recent Universal endeavors for the ruddy Count. Perhaps Universal should look into doing the movie version? This would make quite a monster rally indeed for the big screen. Here s the rerelease, 1949, pressbook for Undersea Kingdom. This and Phantom Empire are on my top favorites list for movie serials (Mystery Science Theater 3000 be damned!). Watching guys running around in their shorts must have been pretty thrilling for audiences back then. I still want a few Volkites and definitely a Juggernaut to drive them around in. Interesting that the Reflector Plate gizmo showed up on Star Trek s Mirror, Mirror episode, but with a more deadly function. The Volkite robot became the go to automaton for Republic as it showed up in later serials. Wikipedia has an unusually extensive article on Undersea Kingdom, listing the re-shot cheats used in the movie. Cheats were cliffhangers that often fudged what happened at the end of the last episode with new shots of the previous action that changes what the audience had seen. Pretty cheeky if you ask me. So is the use of technology like rayguns and robots, while still using swords and catapults to fight with. One of the pleasures of watching these fantastic serials is to see how creative the wardrobe and prop departments were with a tight budget.ComicRack reader version: Download Undersea Kingdom PressbookSee more cheeky pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Continue reading "Undersea Kingdom (1936) Rerelease Pressbook" Here s another pressbook courtesy of Joe Dante and Charles Largent (Trailers from Hell). Acquanetta, known by all monsterkids as the exotic and wild jungle woman, appears in her first credited role in Rhythm of the Islands. Later she would go ape for Universal and swing with Tarzan in Tarzan and the Leopard Woman. I will also note that Jane Frazee makes an appearance in this movie too, because...fans of The Honeymooners will recall TV or Not TV, where Ralph and Norton pool their money together to buy a television set. Bad idea from the start, but Ralph mentions Jane Frazee for a laugh as the two of them squabble over who gets to watch what. My favorite episode for sure.ComicRack reader version: Download Rhythm of the Islands PressbookSee more exotic pressbooks from Zombos Closet. Continue reading "Rhythm of the Islands (1943) Pressbook" Bulldog Drummond heads to Morocco in this thirteenth outing in a whopping twenty-five movie run. It s a shame audiences are no longer thrilled by foreign intrigue themes with their spys and mysteries of foreign locales. I m sure to theater audiences in the 1930s through the 1940s, it must have been thrilling to think about other countries and cultures. Now, of course, politics, easier global travel, and the Internet pretty much take the mystery and intrigue out of it.ComicRack reader version: Download Bulldog Drummond in Africa PressbookExplore more pressbooks from Zombos Closet. How could any self-respecting monsterkid pass up on such a cover? Of course, once snatched from the magazine rack, one would need to be vary careful around one s mom and employ subterfuge and guile to keep such a magazine carefully hidden. Just saying. I learned my lesson with Vampirella No. 1. My mom outsmarted me THAT time. She threatened to dial up Warren Publications and organize all manner of mayhem against them. No telling what she would have done if she saw this issue of Witches Tales. Speaking of witch (hey, a pun!), this issue is gruesomely drawn and vile in its depictions of victims and sinners. Perfect!ComicRack reader version: Download Witches Tales vol1 issue 9See more bewitching magazines from Zombos Closet.

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