Hi there. Welcome to summer! (A perfect excuse to use up the leftover gifs I found online LAST summer for my posts. Ha!)
DAYLIGHT:
Snore. Dull poster (and I already have a copy or two), but the movie was, I thought, entertaining. Back in the 90s there was a brief resurgence of the disaster movie genre, probably sparked by the amazing success of TITANIC. We got flicks like DANTE'S PEAK, VOLCANO, TURBULENCE...and DAYLIGHT. DAYLIGHT was the story of dueling explosions at either end of the Holland (?) Tunnel in NYC, which trap motorists under the Hudson River. And, of course, it starts to flood. Can Sylvester Stallone lead the people to safety? What do you think? It was a flop, but it did have elements of THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE in it.
THE REUNION:
I have NO IDEA what this is. I never heard of it until I came across the poster for it. Clearly it is ripping off AMERICAN GRAFFITI and HAPPY DAYS...and possibly beach movies? The tag at the top, "It was fun in '61," was not so subtly designed to remind you of GRAFFITI's "Where were you in '62?" And "Flash back to the happy days at surf city high"? Ha! Shameless. It's probably crap. I'd love to see it.
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER:
I have no idea what this flick is. I just got the poster for the nicely done crime scene artwork.
SEE NO EVIL:
A friend of mine remembered this movie fondly and i tracked it down for him. We watched it and...I wasn't impressed and neither was he, seeing it all of these years later. It seemed to be a sort of WAIT UNTIL DARK knock off with a blind Mia Farrow instead of a blind Audrey Hepburn as I recall (but I could be wrong). I shouldn't have bothered getting the poster, but...
PREACHERMAN:
I've never seen this flick, but it's grindhouse reputation was enough to bid on this poster---which I got at an amazingly low price. Followed by the sequel PREACHERMAN MEETS WIDDERWOMAN. I'm NOT kidding.
THE OLD DARK HOUSE and MANIAC (re-release combo):
I paid a bit too much (I think) for this poster, considering the extra folds running up and down it's center portion. But I had to have it. I totally dig William Castle. This movie is just so-so...but this poster uses completely different art than the poster for the first release. The co-feature, MANIAC, is an old Hammer thing.
MARDI GRAS MASSACRE:
After visiting New Orleans in 2015, I decided I HAD to have one of these posters...and I tracked one down. I paid about what I paid for this one (maybe a little more?), but that one was in a bit rougher condition than this one is supposed to be in. Of course, then I saw the movie. It wasn't really a "horror" movie. It was more like a police procedural. Whatever. It is still a sleazy but sweet looking poster and they are not that easy to find.
A WITCH WITHOUT A BROOM:
I already have a copy of this poster---but have never seen the flick. It looks like a knock-off of BEWITCHED (even using the name in the ad copy) and I DREAM OF JEANNIE...and it stars the original choice for captain of the USS Enterprise, Jeffrey Hunter. I'd love to see it.
THE WILD PARTY:
I've never seen the movie, but have always liked this poster. For a while, I was trying to track down all of the posters for films Raquel Welch was in ( I still need FANTASTIC VOYAGE at the very least), but realized I'll never hang them up. I have too many cool horror titles I'd rather enjoy on the walls. But I am glad to finally have this title.
SINBAD OF THE SEVEN SEAS:
Okay, so this is not much of a finale to my current new acquisitions thread. However, this IS the most recent thing I bought. You are shaking your head, don';t deny it. A Lou Ferrigno Sinbad movie? It's got to be AWFUL! I am sure it is, too (Haven't seen it). That is the point though. I love my cheese and I really would like to track this movie down some day. I have a LOT of SINBAD posters---those made in "Dynamation" as well as other obscure ones. I needed this one to go with them. Did I already have it? Possibly, but I don't think so. How bad is this? Anyone ever see it?
And that's about it. So go make like David Hasselhoff and have a super duper groovy summer.
CHEERS!
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