EEEEK! It's a special FRIDAY THE 13th posting!!!!! Most of these purchases are older. I've really curtailed my spending out of necessity. I do have posts ready to go through March though... so hopefully that will hold me over post-wise on here until I can get some bills paid off.
And, one last thing before we get to the posters, a while back I got a poster for a movie called TERROR IN THE JUNGLE. There was only a short clip of the flick available on Youtube at the time, but someone has been wonderful enough to post it in its entirety. Do NOT watch the whole thing. The best part is the first 27 minutes. It is so over-the-top wonderfully bad. You will LOVE it (maybe). The very beginning is painfully awful to watch---but once they get to the airport, the entire flight, and up until the annoying kid is all alone is priceless trash! It's better than all of the AIRPORT movies combined in less than 30 minutes!
And now, since you were unlucky enough to stumble in here.... here are the posters. Yikes!!
SHAUN OF THE DEAD:
I know. I know. Everyone has had one of these for years. Everyone but ME, that is. Yahoo! I got mine FINALLY!
BLACK SHEEP (British Quad):
NAKED EXORCISM (aka THE POSSESSOR, CRIES AND WHISPERS, THE RETURN OF THE EXORCIST) (British quad):
Hot diggity! I love my EXORCIST rip-offs. This one is especially dumb and cheap--but I dig it. I first saw it on VHS as THE POSSESSOR eons ago and have been trying to track down paper on it ever since. I'd settle for a video poster if I had to. Luckily I scored this British quad under its UK title NAKED EXORCISM. Yes, i know. No one else is excited but me. That's fine.
THE STEPFATHER:
Normally I would have passed on this...but it was inexpensive. The STEPFATHER films were okay...but tended to be all the same. But the first one was a decent little thriller and did inspire two sequels, a remake and some knock-offs. It also more or less put Terry O'Quinn on the map.
HOUSE OF THE CRAZIES:
I think I have one of these---or do I? Just to be sure, here is (another) copy. Cool poster.
EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (British Quad):
I know most people don't bother with Bert I. Gordon's 70's opuses FOOD OF THE GODS and EMPIRE OF THE ANTS. They're guilty pleasures of mine. I proudly have one sheets for both. This British quad for ANTS is really nicely done...and completely different than the US version. And what an interesting cast---JOAN COLLINS, Pamela Susan Shoop (death by theraputic jacuzzi in "Halloween 2"), Robert Pine (the boss guy on "CHiPs"), John David Carson and Robert Lansing. And GIANT ANTS!!! Ha!
DEMONS:
Dario Argento produced, Lamberto Bava directed...this was a hit horror film I was lucky enough to see in the theater (which was weird as it takes place in a theater). Great horror flick that inspired at least one true sequel and several rip-offs/imitators. I already had one---this was an upgrade.
EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (Brazilian):
Oooo...The final film in the Coffin Joe trilogy. Ze do Caixao ("Coffin Joe"), the character, appeared in many low-budget Brazilian movies made by actor/writer/director Jose Mojica Marins. The first Coffin Joe flick was AT MIDNIGHT I'LL TAKE YOUR SOUL (1963). It was followed by THIS NIGHT I'LL POSSESS YOUR CORPSE (1967). The story line finally concluded in 2008 with this film, EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (which utilized a young look-a-like actor in the younger Coffin Joe flashbacks). I have the 2nd and now 3rd poster in the trilogy (as well as other Coffin Joe posters), now I just need to track down the first one.
THE BLOODY EXORCISM OF COFFIN JOE (Brazilian):
The EMBODIMENT OF EVIL poster above was a bonus find from the same dealer who had this poster. Yowza! THE BLOODY EXORCISM OF COFFIN JOE (US title---it was clearly called EXORCISMO NEGRA or BLACK EXORCISM in Brazil) dates back to 1974 and is one of the few Coffin Joe posters left I really, really wanted. There was another of those coveted titles (INFERNO CARNAL aka HELLISH FLESH) someone had for sale. I was watching it, stupidly waiting until I could afford it. It was re-listed a time or two and then...someone ELSE snagged it. ARGH! So when this one popped up, i just bit the bullet and charged it. But yippy yippy yeah! This film, clearly inspired by the success of THE EXORCIST and released approximately 1 year later (December 1974) is not your typical possession film. In many ways it is a precursor to Wes Craven's NEW NIGHTMARE in that Jose Mojica Marins plays himself and states on a talk show that Coffin Joe is not real, that he just plays the part in movies. He then sets off to write a movie about exorcism at remote house...and strange things start to happen. Not the best COFFIN JOE movie (the trilogy mentioned above is your best bet to sample Coffin Joe), but I'm glad to have the poster. FINALLY!
WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS:
Ooooo oooo oooo! This is my prize this posting. (The 1974 Coffin Joe was a very close 2nd...) I have wanted this poster for decades. It has grown out of my financial grasp in the last 10 years or so---always tauntingly just out of my reach. There was one on emovie not too long ago and I fought hard to get it---but the price just went where I dared not go. So...I lost it. Then I came across this one, much cheaper and SOLD!!!!!!! Zowie! It's cool enough that a movie called WEREWOLVES ON WHEELS actually exists, but the poster --with a motorcycle-riding werewolf, clutching an upside down chick (who is herself holding a snake) while running over some guy--is totally awesome! How can you NOT dig this piece of exploitation sleaze-genius!? LOVE IT!!!!
That is it for this time. If we both survive this unluckiest of days (EEEK!), I'll see you on the 15th for my regular post.
Now, like the gif says...
Happy Friday the 13th!!!!
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