December 12, 2016, 02:56:03 PM
Hi there. Happy holidays. It's time for a mini-bonus. From now until the 23rd, I'll be having a special 12 Days of Christmas advent calendar, with a new purchase shown every day until we get to Christmas Eve Eve (or whatever you'd call the 23rd). I'll have a special bonus post on Christmas Eve...and one on Christmas Day as well. I'll also have my usual post on the 15th in addition to one of these mini-bonus posts. These mini-posts are nothing special...but I just wanted to do something for the holidays.
Here is Day 1's post:
MORTUARY:
Another flick I have surprisingly NOT seen. I remember when this came out. I intended to see it. It's never happened. (Yet.) There were several similarly titled films at the same time...In addition to this, there was FUNERAL HOME, MAUSOLEUM, and THE HEARSE (which was the only one I have seen). This one stars one of "The Waltons" girls...I think the character's name was Erin? The middle girl...if you even know the show. Simple but effective artwork.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 19, 2016, 12:29:52 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #8:
ROCKY and ROCKY II (re-release combo):
Once again, something I didn't really need. I'm no ROCKY fan. I think I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but they didn't do it for me. However i got this poster as a sort of a replacement for one I bought with the sole intention of gifting a co-worker with back at the newspaper many years ago. I actually gave her two framed posters---this one and a Rambo: First Blood Part 2. I think I now have a Rambo 2 again...and now this combo. Why i felt I "needed" to get posters to replace those I do not know... Ha!
CHEERS!
December 20, 2016, 01:05:29 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #9:
MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH (German):
I've never seen this movie, but I dug this German poster for it---and it was uber-cheap. Is this worth my time to watch? Hmm...
CHEERS!
December 21, 2016, 12:03:59 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #10:
SCREAM (British quad):
I didn't really need this either, but it was cheap -- and different than the US one sheet for the film. I like how the characters are in the letters of the title. Nice.
CHEERS!
December 22, 2016, 12:05:26 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #11:
WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR:
I have never really seen many movies with Sal Mineo. Believe it or not, I've never even seen REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE yet. (I can hear your jaws dropping in disbelief.) The only things i have seen him in are KRAKATOA: EAST OF JAVA (a forgettable film) and in one of the PLANET OF THE APES films in ape guise (but which ape, I don't recall). I've heard of this flick, but never saw it. The poster appeared, was super cheap...and I bought it.
By the way, funny story about this and a few other posters I've been putting up during this advent calendar. The box of lots from this one kind of big (but ultimately very small) auction arrived last night. In the box, there were flat/folded posters as well as a few tubes. When i took the tubes out to inspect them, I could see that they had been used. But then, for a brief moment, my mind could NOT quite understand what it was seeing. On all four of the tubes that were in the box I saw that they were sent to a person I KNOW somewhat on the East Coast...who i had just sent a Christmas card to that day. Ha! I had bought some of his crap. Too funny. (But not for him...there were very few bidders. I got most of the stuff for the minimum bids... Ouch!)
CHEERS!
December 23, 2016, 12:07:35 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #12:
Yikes--tomorrow is Christmas Eve...and I am soooo NOT READY for the holidays yet. @$#%&! Oh well, here is the last of the advent posters. Tomorrow I'll be back with a full BONUS post of new stuff for Christmas Eve followed by another special bonus post for Christmas! Zowie!
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK(Studio style):
I wasn't going to post any of my really "good" posters in this little advent calendar thing...but I thought I'd go ahead and share this one as this is the last day. Golly! An ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK...at LAST! Classic poster art. Santa has been very good to me this year...all year long!
Hi there. Happy holidays. It's time for a mini-bonus. From now until the 23rd, I'll be having a special 12 Days of Christmas advent calendar, with a new purchase shown every day until we get to Christmas Eve Eve (or whatever you'd call the 23rd). I'll have a special bonus post on Christmas Eve...and one on Christmas Day as well. I'll also have my usual post on the 15th in addition to one of these mini-bonus posts. These mini-posts are nothing special...but I just wanted to do something for the holidays.
Here is Day 1's post:
MORTUARY:
Another flick I have surprisingly NOT seen. I remember when this came out. I intended to see it. It's never happened. (Yet.) There were several similarly titled films at the same time...In addition to this, there was FUNERAL HOME, MAUSOLEUM, and THE HEARSE (which was the only one I have seen). This one stars one of "The Waltons" girls...I think the character's name was Erin? The middle girl...if you even know the show. Simple but effective artwork.
Ho! Ho! Ho!
December 13, 2016, 12:02:08 AM
Oh my! It's already tomorrow.
So now, it's the 12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #2:
LA PRINCESSA HIPPIE (Mexican):
Ha! This makes me laugh. This is a Mexican poster for something called LA PRINCESSA HIPPIE (which translates, of course, into THE HIPPY PRINCESS). Apparently this is Mexican cinema's attempt to get groovy--a la American-style. The two dudes in the lower left corner are my faves. There's one beatnik-looking dude with cool shades and a Salvador Dali mustache. The other guy is a preppy-looking hipster hippy with wild-print top and de rigueur gold chain. Groovy, baby! I dig it in a far out way. This swingin' little movie is probably an unintentional laugh riot. I'd LOVE to see it. Peace out.
CHEERS!
December 14, 2016, 12:00:57 AM
As for the NUDE ON THE MOON poster, UGH! They bid right up to my top bid ($700), but not a penny over...so now I have to cough up another $700 for something I do not want/need (as i already have one). Stupid, Stupid, STUPID me. Oh well. No sense holding it back.
And so, here is the 12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #3:
NUDE ON THE MOON:
This just became mine only hours ago. Waaaagh. Don't get me wrong--it's a great poster...but also a very expensive duplicate I did not need. The competition bid right up to my top bid ($700), but not a penny over...so now I have to cough up another $700 for something I do not want/need. Stupid, Stupid, STUPID me. Oh well. No sense holding it back. Hmm.. Forgive the watermarked version. There was not time to wait for the clean version to be sent my way.
Okay. I just mailed off my first 50 Christmas cards today and still have about 20 left to go. Gotta get busy...
CHEERS!
December 15, 2016, 12:03:30 AM
And now, the 12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #4:
SAVAGE ISLAND:
This was a recent pickup from our friend Rich's auction (as you may notice the watermark for his site). What an awful movie this is--and brilliant at the same time (in an awful way). IMDB sums it up succinctly and best: This "new movie" was cobbled together from scenes of both Hotel Paradise (1980) and Escape from Hell (1980) with 10 minutes of new additional footage featuring Linda Blair. The result was an incoherent movie.
Ha! Still Linda, who's not really in the movie, gets star billing AND the poster---and she is in the movie ever so fleetingly. That's exploitation!
And here is an EXTRA BONUS poster...(i.e. my screw up for today).
GODZILLA FILM FESTIVAL (bogus? British quad):
Just hours ago, I "won" this poster with a snipe bid I placed several days ago before work one morning. I noted the condition--but that's really all i had time to read. Cut to my email saying I had won this. I clicked on it to pay and finally read the description: "GODZILLA FILM FESTIVAL 1982 -- ORIG SINGLE SIDED BRITISH QUAD ( 30"X40") MOVIE POSTER. POSTER WAS ACQUIRED FROM A CANADIAN COLLECTOR THAT IS RETIRING FROM THE HOBBY .SHE INFORMED ME THAT THIS POSTER WAS PRODUCED BY MIRACLE FILMS ( A UK DISTRIBUTOR FOR GODZILLA AND OTHER FILMS IN THIS TIME PERIOD) . THIS WAS SHORTLY BEFORE MIRACLE FILMS WENT OUT OF BUSINESS AND HAD INTENDED TO PUT ON A GODZILLA FILM FESTIVAL BUT DUE TO FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IT NEVER REACHED FRUITION . POSTER WAS RECALLED AND NEVER USED . THIS POSTER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH LIGHT FOLDS AS ORIGINALLY ISSUED .THIS POSTER IS NOT REPRO OR REPRINT , THIS IS AN ORIGINAL THEATRICAL MOVIE POSTER PRINTED BY THE STUDIOS" Uh-oh...just days earlier I had seen a cool Ilsa poster announcing a similar Ilsa Film Festival with the 4 Ilsa films featured on the poster. That one I did not bid on because I noticed who the seller was right away... Anyone want to guess? Mr. bad News himself, tloceposters. As much as I wanted the Ilsa one sheet, I figured it was a fake. This similarly sounding quad sent alarm bells through my head...but obviously too late. The seller? tloceposters. DANG IT ALL. Grrrr...
Today is also the 15th. If I have not already posted my usual mid-month post, it will be coming up shortly.
CHEERS!
December 16, 2016, 12:06:43 AM
Okay, here's the 12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #5:
AMIN: THE RISE AND FALL:
Oh my stars! This is one sleazy exploitation gem of the lowest taste. The rise and fall of Uganda's evil dictator is shown in this rare, grindhouse clasSICK. The rumors of Amin's cannibalization of some of his victims are totally alluded to as he keeps body parts in his fridge in this schlockfest. Paper on this is super hard to come by, but when I saw this--I SNATCHED it up quick. Utter trash as only those of the bygone 42nd Street cinema world would appreciate.
CHEERS!
December 17, 2016, 12:23:21 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #6:
PINK NARCISSUS (French? Canadian?):
I don't know what this movie is...or if this a French or Canadian poster. But I liked the stylized photography of the Pan-like character and the muted, but colorful back/foreground. I'm guessing this is some sort of foreign kid fantasy flick? ...it doesn't seem like a kiddie matinee poster though. I don't get what the title is referring to exactly either. Maybe it's a riff on the old movie BLACK NARCISSUS? I have no idea...but maybe that's why I never heard of it. But it was interesting. And CHEAP.
CHEERS!
December 18, 2016, 12:04:04 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #7:
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (90s re-release British quad):
Let's do the Time Warp again! Yes this quad has a few issues, but I really liked the style. It is the same art that was used, if I'm not mistaken, on the soundtrack album (i.e vinyl record) for the film that I had as a teen. It was a fun movie and I remember those midnight shows. Fun times.
CHEERS!
December 19, 2016, 12:29:52 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #8:
ROCKY and ROCKY II (re-release combo):
Once again, something I didn't really need. I'm no ROCKY fan. I think I've seen 2 or 3 of them, but they didn't do it for me. However i got this poster as a sort of a replacement for one I bought with the sole intention of gifting a co-worker with back at the newspaper many years ago. I actually gave her two framed posters---this one and a Rambo: First Blood Part 2. I think I now have a Rambo 2 again...and now this combo. Why i felt I "needed" to get posters to replace those I do not know... Ha!
CHEERS!
December 20, 2016, 01:05:29 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #9:
MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH (German):
I've never seen this movie, but I dug this German poster for it---and it was uber-cheap. Is this worth my time to watch? Hmm...
December 21, 2016, 12:03:59 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #10:
SCREAM (British quad):
I didn't really need this either, but it was cheap -- and different than the US one sheet for the film. I like how the characters are in the letters of the title. Nice.
CHEERS!
December 22, 2016, 12:05:26 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #11:
WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR:
I have never really seen many movies with Sal Mineo. Believe it or not, I've never even seen REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE yet. (I can hear your jaws dropping in disbelief.) The only things i have seen him in are KRAKATOA: EAST OF JAVA (a forgettable film) and in one of the PLANET OF THE APES films in ape guise (but which ape, I don't recall). I've heard of this flick, but never saw it. The poster appeared, was super cheap...and I bought it.
By the way, funny story about this and a few other posters I've been putting up during this advent calendar. The box of lots from this one kind of big (but ultimately very small) auction arrived last night. In the box, there were flat/folded posters as well as a few tubes. When i took the tubes out to inspect them, I could see that they had been used. But then, for a brief moment, my mind could NOT quite understand what it was seeing. On all four of the tubes that were in the box I saw that they were sent to a person I KNOW somewhat on the East Coast...who i had just sent a Christmas card to that day. Ha! I had bought some of his crap. Too funny. (But not for him...there were very few bidders. I got most of the stuff for the minimum bids... Ouch!)
December 23, 2016, 12:07:35 AM
12 Days of Xmas advent calendar day #12:
Yikes--tomorrow is Christmas Eve...and I am soooo NOT READY for the holidays yet. @$#%&! Oh well, here is the last of the advent posters. Tomorrow I'll be back with a full BONUS post of new stuff for Christmas Eve followed by another special bonus post for Christmas! Zowie!
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK(Studio style):
I wasn't going to post any of my really "good" posters in this little advent calendar thing...but I thought I'd go ahead and share this one as this is the last day. Golly! An ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK...at LAST! Classic poster art. Santa has been very good to me this year...all year long!
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