The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show -- Classic Collection #4

Hi there. It's time for another batch from the "classic collection", posters I had long before I ever started posting about them. Ready? Here we go-go!

BLACK XMAS (remake):

I don't think I ever bothered to see this remake. I got this poster from the theater. They just arbitrarily had a bunch of posters in a bin that said "FREE". I dug around and didn't see much...but then came across a horror flick? Hmm. Free is free. Yes, I'll take it. Thanks!

BEYOND THE DOOR:

This movie is a guilty pleasure of mine. I love my EXORCIST ripoffs in a big way. But this one has extra perks in it for me. Not only are Juliet ("Nanny and the Professor") Mills and Richard "The Haunting"/"Zombie") Johnson in it, but there are plenty of exterior shots of San Francisco and Sausalito from back in the day (including the freeway along the Embarcadero that is no longer there). And hey, as an added bonus, there is a prologue by Satan himself as he sets up the action on the screen. Ha! Warner Brothers sued but LOST! Thank goodness---because that opened the door to lots of other knock-offs. Hooray! I have way too many copies of this poster. I just can't help but buy them (plus they are usually cheap)!

BEYOND THE DOOR II (aka SHOCK):

This is not a true sequel. The only thing this film has in common with the original is the child actor who plays the little boy in both films. This film is really called "SHOCK" and was the last horror film directed by Mario Bava. It is an interesting little flick, but by repackaging it as a sequel to BEYOND THE DOOR probably earned it more box office than it would have gotten otherwise. I liked the similar-but-different newspaper ad over the poster that featured the boy morphing into the demonic cherub shown below. For years I searched for a poster version of the ad...but I have never seen one, so I guess they were never made. There was a BEYOND THE DOOR III that went straight to video. I saw it a zillion years ago on VHS. It was about some possessed train or something like that. It was disappointing. Waaaagh! Maybe some day there will be a Part 4 or a remake? Ha.

SHAME IN THE CITY:

Ha! This movie MUST be a hoot. It looks so cheesy and dated. The "Street" Girls! The Strip Joints! The Drug Addicts! The "Art" Models! Every vice you ever thought of...and some you never knew existed! Too funny.I had this hanging in my guest room at one time. My friend Ricki came and I had taped her name to the plexiglass cover announcing her as the star. Ha!

DETROIT ROCK CITY:

I bought this poster as a gift for my brother. He was a big KISS fan and KISS is apparently featured in the film and is featured on the poster. When he moved, he left everything behind more or less. I reclaimed it and should put a new poster in its place.

MULHOLLAND DR.:

Possibly David Lynch's masterpiece. I loved this film when I first saw it. I watched it recently and wasn't that thrilled with it (of course, my mother was watching it as well at that time, so...). I have both styles of the poster--but this was the one I came across now. The other will turn up eventually.

JASON X:

The 10th FRIDAY THE 13th flick set in space. I liked it okay, but still do NOT understand the motivation of coming to Earth to pick up Jason's body to haul off somewhere else in the galaxy. If they knew who/what he was, you'd think they'd have a clue that he was bound to come back to life and kill again. Ha! Still, the poster is okay---certainly it is better than MOST of the posters that came before it.

CASINO ROYALE (remake advance):

I was skeptical about Daniel Craig's debut as Bond, but this film (and the ones that followed) was AWESOME. I prefer this advance poster over the final release version (which I do have also). I'm so looking forward to the NEXT Bond flick. Whoo hoo.

VACANCY:

This was such a savage and shocking idea for a movie. I totally dug it---but the idea behind it is so frightening. Jeepers.

THE WARRIORS:

I saw this movie when I was about 13 or so (on a double bill with Cheech & Chong's Up In Smoke). I was bothered by all of the drug stuff in UP IN SMOKE (our next door neighbors were druggies---and there were a few too many scary incidents related to them), but fell immediately in with the story in THE WARRIORS. It was great, very suspenseful and I really liked it. The poster was impossible to get and I tried for years to get one. Imagine my surprise when I opened a box and realized I already had one. Ha!

Okay---that is 10. Time to get these old bones up and out of this chair. Thanks for visiting.

CHEERS!

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