Articles in Poster of the Week
Title: The Brides of Dracula (1960)
AKA: les Maitresses de Dracula
Studio: Hammer Film Productions
Directed by Terence Fisher
Starring Peter Cushing
French Grande Poster, 47 in. X 63 in.
Artist: Marcel Landais
Plot: Vampire hunter Van Helsing returns to Transylvania to …
Plot: A teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their car. The creature’s hand falls off, but it comes alive, and, with an eye growing out of it, …
Title: Indestructible Man (1956)
Director: Jack Pollexfen
Starring: Lon Chaney, Jr.
Dimensions: 41″ x 27″
Plot: It tells the story of Butcher Benton (Chaney), a double-crossed convicted robber and murderer who dies in the gas chamber and is inadvertently …
Title: Bride of the Monster (1955)
Director: Edward D. Wood, Jr.
Dimensions: 41″ x 27″
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Lugosi’s character, Dr. Eric Vornoff, is experimenting with atomic energy in a primitive laboratory in his mansion. His goal is to …
Plot: In the Florida Everglades a pair of larger-than-human-size, intelligent leeches are living in an underwater cave. They begin dragging local people down to their cave where they hold them prisoner and slowly drain them …
Plot: On an island community off of California, Tom Stewart is preparing to marry the woman he loves. His plans are threatened by his old girlfriend, Vi, who shows up secretly. During a confrontation at …
Plot: A disparate group are trapped on a remote island by a hurricane. On the island, a doctor works to make humans twice as small as we already are. This, apparently, will help prevent over …
Plot: Three beat-nicks are offered one million dollars by a coffee house owner to follow a secret plan and rob an armored car in Chicago, disguised as police and escape to New York. But they’re …
Lon Chaney, Jr. stars in this classic sci-fi/horror film about a newly married couple traveling by train when the husband gets an urgent telegram. At the next stop he gets off the train to make …
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William Castle was the grandaddy of movie gimmicks, like the “tingler” which was a device placed under the audiences seats to give a “light” vibrating shock during scary moment sin the film. Castle often …
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It traditional Hitchcock style, he appears on the margin of this poster self-marketing his new film. Hitchcock had a tendency of being a showman for his films … but, we can’t really complain. His films …
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This week’s poster is in recognition of the fact that I was a complete bonehead and forgot to post the poster for this week … so, I’m posting it nearly a week later because I’m …
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This one’s truly just an admiration of the artwork, as the film is purely classic 50’s sci-fi/horror schlock. This was the kind of thing that mom and dad went to see at a matinee for …
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Another classic film from producer-director Roger Corman, and perhaps one of his more enjoyable films. Ray Milland stars as Dr. Xaviers, a scientist experimenting with x-ray vision. He subjects himself to his studies, but things …
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Warner Bros. and director Gordon Douglas brought us this classic cautionary tale of our lustful drive for atomic technology and how our pursuit of this destructive force is bound to backfire on us. With all …
This classic science fiction film tells of a young boy who witnesses a spaceship crash land on Earth. The boy’s father goes to check it out but comes back different. Soon, more and more people …
This early example of the classic schlock films that we would see dominate the early 70’s was one of many produced by the legendary Roger Corman. Some may be surprised, however, to learn this film …
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How can I possibly leave out the great green lizard of chaos. This radioactive bi-product of nuclear development sparked not just a movie franchise, but also an entire genre of movies. True, its not the …
