April 14, 2015, 01:14:03 AM
Wednesday is my 50th (Oh CRAP!) birthday (also Income Tax Day---sorry about that). I am heading for New Orleans for a week to celebrate (a place I have never been to). Except for a "bucket list" of posters I have written down, I plan to stop buying posters (as I have so many...) once I officially hit the big Five-Oh. So, I've been shopping like a fiend, have bids or snipes set up on several auctions,etc... all for those last-minute purchases before the big day.
My flight leaves tomorrow, so I thought I'd post one last flashback of purchases from the last few years. I'll post whatever I "bought" over the next few days when I get back.
In no particular order...
I just recently got the one sheet for "Dinosaurus!. I got this re-release combo poster a while back for "Dinosaurus!" and "The Blob". Sadly this is probably as close to getting an original "Blob" as I'll ever get. Darn it all... but it's better than nothing (and I do like my combo posters):
"Silent Running"---classic sci-fi and incredible poster art. I can't believe I actually was lucky enough to get this:
"Blazing Stewardesses"--Oh my stars! I've never seen this movie properly, but I do remember when I was a kid my family went to the drive in. I don't recall what we were seeing, but I DO recall looking out the back window of our little blue Pinto (seriously!) at the screen behind us. Screen 1 (which was ginormous...at one time billed as the World's Largest Screen) had a stewardess double feature playing. I forget the title of one movie, but "Blazing Stewardesses" was definitely one of the features. All I remember was whipped cream being licked off of some woman's chest! Zowie! Scandalous, but to my little pre-pubescent eyes, it was mind-blowing. Had to get the poster. If nothing else, it has a great cheesy title!
"Rock Around the World"--I don't know anyone listed on the poster, but what cool art work. A 1950s guitar player rocking away in front of the planet. Very nifty! I dig it.
I totally love this old school poster for "THE BLACK ZOO". The lion attacking the fainting woman is just classic. Very cool.
Here's a bit of obscure 80s horror---"The Mutilator"! By sword, by pick, by axe...bye bye! Ha! Gotta love that tag line. I actually saw this in the theater. Ha!
The picture they said could never be shown... Not a great poster by any means, "Snuff" had an ingenious ad campaign when it came out. The fake protests for publicity that soon became a national outcry. Zowie! People who had never even seen the movie got caught up in the frenzy and picketed theaters showing it...only making the curious rush out to see it! I wanted to see that movie soooo bad. Years later when I finally did--it was crap, of course. But the memory of exploitation brilliantly played is forever instilled in the poster---a film that could only be made in South America--where life is cheap!
BLOOD-CURDLING! HAIR-RAISING! SPINE-CHILLING! Eeeek! It's "The Horrors of Spider Island". Wow! Cool poster--love it.
Here is another blast from the B-Movie past, "ATOM AGE VAMPIRE"!!! I'm sure the movie is schlocky as heck, but you gotta like the fab-o-rama old school poster.
The 10th and final poster-a-go-go for the night is another B-Movie beauty, "TORMENTED". Wow!
That's it for tonight. Fingers crossed I win a lot over the next few days (I just have NO IDEA how I'll pay for it all. Ha!)
CHEERS!
Wednesday is my 50th (Oh CRAP!) birthday (also Income Tax Day---sorry about that). I am heading for New Orleans for a week to celebrate (a place I have never been to). Except for a "bucket list" of posters I have written down, I plan to stop buying posters (as I have so many...) once I officially hit the big Five-Oh. So, I've been shopping like a fiend, have bids or snipes set up on several auctions,etc... all for those last-minute purchases before the big day.
My flight leaves tomorrow, so I thought I'd post one last flashback of purchases from the last few years. I'll post whatever I "bought" over the next few days when I get back.
In no particular order...
I just recently got the one sheet for "Dinosaurus!. I got this re-release combo poster a while back for "Dinosaurus!" and "The Blob". Sadly this is probably as close to getting an original "Blob" as I'll ever get. Darn it all... but it's better than nothing (and I do like my combo posters):
"Silent Running"---classic sci-fi and incredible poster art. I can't believe I actually was lucky enough to get this:
"Blazing Stewardesses"--Oh my stars! I've never seen this movie properly, but I do remember when I was a kid my family went to the drive in. I don't recall what we were seeing, but I DO recall looking out the back window of our little blue Pinto (seriously!) at the screen behind us. Screen 1 (which was ginormous...at one time billed as the World's Largest Screen) had a stewardess double feature playing. I forget the title of one movie, but "Blazing Stewardesses" was definitely one of the features. All I remember was whipped cream being licked off of some woman's chest! Zowie! Scandalous, but to my little pre-pubescent eyes, it was mind-blowing. Had to get the poster. If nothing else, it has a great cheesy title!
"Rock Around the World"--I don't know anyone listed on the poster, but what cool art work. A 1950s guitar player rocking away in front of the planet. Very nifty! I dig it.
I totally love this old school poster for "THE BLACK ZOO". The lion attacking the fainting woman is just classic. Very cool.
Here's a bit of obscure 80s horror---"The Mutilator"! By sword, by pick, by axe...bye bye! Ha! Gotta love that tag line. I actually saw this in the theater. Ha!
The picture they said could never be shown... Not a great poster by any means, "Snuff" had an ingenious ad campaign when it came out. The fake protests for publicity that soon became a national outcry. Zowie! People who had never even seen the movie got caught up in the frenzy and picketed theaters showing it...only making the curious rush out to see it! I wanted to see that movie soooo bad. Years later when I finally did--it was crap, of course. But the memory of exploitation brilliantly played is forever instilled in the poster---a film that could only be made in South America--where life is cheap!
BLOOD-CURDLING! HAIR-RAISING! SPINE-CHILLING! Eeeek! It's "The Horrors of Spider Island". Wow! Cool poster--love it.
Here is another blast from the B-Movie past, "ATOM AGE VAMPIRE"!!! I'm sure the movie is schlocky as heck, but you gotta like the fab-o-rama old school poster.
The 10th and final poster-a-go-go for the night is another B-Movie beauty, "TORMENTED". Wow!
That's it for tonight. Fingers crossed I win a lot over the next few days (I just have NO IDEA how I'll pay for it all. Ha!)
CHEERS!
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