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The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show -- Classic Collection #10


Welcome to another Classic Collection edition of the SHOCK O RAMA POSTER SHOW, where we look at posters that were in my collection before I started sharing them online. Today, I am afraid, we get a little bogged down with BATMAN stuff (Blame my nephew...). But there are fun things before and after all of that. Let's take a look:



THE HOUSE OF EXORCISM:

Mario Bava's "LISA AND THE DEVIL" was found to be unmarketable in the wake of THE EXORCIST. So, someone went back, shot scenes of Elke Sommer being possessed and added in a priest, spliced it altogether, and voila! You get HOUSE OF EXORCISM.  Most of what was LISA AND THE DEVIL remains--and it is Euro-intriguing. The exorcism at the end necessitated the original "shock" ending...but you get the gist of it without that ending. Telly Savalas sucks on lollipops---just as he did in KOJACK. Ha!





BATMAN FOREVER (BATMAN):

My nephew was once into BATMAN in a big way. This was long before the recent series (with Christian Bale). Anyway, my mother asked me to get some BATMAN posters (and frames for them) from some of the BATMAN films to decorate his room. I got seven of them. When he outgrew them, I "saved them". (His mother was going to sell them in a garage sale for $1 each---hello? The frames alone are worth more than that!) Eventually I will get around to swapping them out for other posters. For now they sit in my closet.



BATMAN FOREVER (ROBIN):

Another of my nephew's old BATMAN posters.





BATMAN FOREVER (RIDDLER):

And another BATMAN poster from the depths of my closet...




BATMAN FOREVER (TWO-FACE):

Yet another BATMAN poster that needs to have something else put in its frame...





BATMAN FOREVER (DR. CHASE MERIDIAN):

I don't know what my nephew thought of this poster. WHO is Chase Meridian (other than the love interest for that particular film?). 





BATMAN AND ROBIN (VILLAINS)

Huh? Oh that's right. There WAS a third villain besides Poison Ivy and Mr. Freeze. But who he was (totally downplayed....guess they couldn't get a big enough star to play him?), I do not recall.






BATMAN AND ROBIN (HEROES):

This was the one with George Clooney as Batman, right? Alicia Silverstone was off unemployment for a while doing her Batgirl gig (Has she had a job since?). Is Chris O'Donnell still around?






CARNIVOROUS / RAW MEAT (combo):

Ooooo. I do remember when this combo came to town. it only played at one drive in...and o' I soooo wanted to see it. The ad copy screamed "Secretly filmed--absolutely authentic scenes of cannibalism as practiced today! Filmed by hidden cameras." Zowie! How hideously horrifying it all sounded. Years later when I finally tracked this down, I discovered that it was actually a re-titling of JUNGLE HOLOCAUST from 1977. But I love this poster. 






SLAVE OF THE CANNIBAL GOD:

This is a stunning poster. I really appreciate the artwork. As a cannibal movie---it's okay. Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach must have really been hard up for cash to agree to star in this grindhouse epic. But the poster is just gorgeous!




That is all for this time. NOT the best selection---but at least I got those Batman posters out of the way. Ha! Thanks for visiting.


Cheers!

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