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Monster-A-GoGo's Shock-O-Rama Poster Show RECREATION #20


May 25, 2015, 03:00:06 AM

Hi there!  I was waiting until I got 10 new posters...but, at 9, I was just too excited to wait any longer to share.

It's a bumper crop of International posters...something I have very few of. The amazing thing is, almost all of them are English versions of International posters (many I've seen the same posters in other languages).  None are all that great, but I am ever so pleased to get them! Yippie!!


First off, wow! Wow! WOW!!!  I never thought I'd score one of these---but here is the French version (ooo la la!) of the original "PLANET OF THE APES"!  For years I resisted buying foreign posters over US one sheets. I'd seen this over the years many times--and loved it. I thought (and STILL think) it is the BEST version poster for the film. Of course now when posters are at an all time high price wise, I finally decide to go for it. Ha! Although I still lack (and want) the US one sheet (the only "APES" title I don't have), I am beyond thrilled with this one. C'est magnifique!






Also not in English is the Spanish poster for a re-release of "THE WIZARD OF OZ". I HAVE a few of the US "Oz" re-releases from the early 70s on, but way back in 1983, just after graduating high school, I went on a whirlwind, cheap-o-rama trip to Europe ALONE. It was not supposed to have been that way, but...  Anyway, one of my first stops was in Barcelona. I really had no idea what to do or see. I saw a few things and then, to pass the time, I went to the movies. "The Wizard of Oz" was playing...with this poster advertising it. The dialogue was in Spanish but the songs were in English (!)--and there was this amazing, freaky short film beforehand that was creepy yet cool about a woman in a hooded robe or something who would peek out with only one eye showing. Weird. I wish I knew what that was. Anyway--so glad to add this "OZ" poster to my collection.






The final non-English international poster is for schlock and sleazemeister Jess Franco's "OASIS OF THE ZOMBIES"---about Nazi zombies in the desert!  EEK! I've never seen a US one sheet for this--was it even released theatrically here?







My new hunt for unauthorized Tarzan films and their posters continues with these new additions---the first is "Tarzan- The Kawana Treasure" starring someone named Richard Yesteran as the swingin' ape man!  Not the most interesting poster---but it was in English and I'm on a quest! Ha!






The next fake Tarzan is "Tarzan and the Rainbow" (aka "Tarzan and the Brown Prince") starring Steve Hawkes as Lord Greystoke! Man, I wish these films were AVAILABLE to see. I dig me some Tarzan flicks! I've seen all of the surviving (or THOUGHT I had) "Tarzan" films. Hmm.






The one US poster (I think) I got was for another Jess Franco sleaze fest, "WANDA THE WICKED WARDEN" (aka "Greta the Mad Butcher"). WHY did I want this? Because it is ALSO known as today --the the magic of dubbing and title changes---as "Ilsa the Wicked Warden", one of the four flicks in the shock-o-rama Ilsa saga starring Dyanne Thorne! I have the posters for "Ilsa She Wolf of the SS", "The Tigress" (which is better known as "Ilsa-Tigress of Siberia") and (I think) "Ilsa-Harem Keeper for the Oil Sheiks"...but until now, never the "Wicked Warden" poster. So yippie!!






This next one features some of the crappiest artwork ever, but I had to have it! I love my disaster flicks of the 70s. "BLAZING TOWER" started out life as a (bad) TV movie called "Terror on the 40th Floor"--a TV movie ripoff of "The Towering Inferno". International viewers were lucky enough to have to PAY to see that turd--Ha! I have been hunting high and low for a one sheet for this flick (in English), and finally scored one from Lebanon! Ha!







I got myself another of my peplum/ sword & sandal posters for "Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators"---a Euro-poster in English! Yippie!





And the final poster tonight is the British one sheet for the wonderfully silly/bad crime/adventure flick filled with man-eating piranha (and the dumbest animated tornado ever seen on screen. Ha!)..."KILLER FISH" starring Lee Majors and Karen Black!






Okay--I need to get to bed. Cha-cha-cha!


CHEERS!
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