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The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2019 #8



Welcome back! Believe it or not, I have another Shock-O-Rama Poster Show ready to share with you already...just days after posting the last one. It is not the most exciting batch ever, but there are a few trinkets you may like. Grab your popcorn, your Coke and your hot dog and make your way to your seat. The show is about to begin...




THE LAST WAVE (BLACK RAIN re-release?):

 I always meant to see THE LAST WAVE, but I always had the feeling I would be bored by it and feel ripped off after all of the "It will scare the hell out of you" hype. This alternate title (re-release?) poster came to me in a lot. If anything, it re-awakened the interest in seeing the film. But will I follow through? Hmm...




IT'S NOT THE SIZE THAT COUNTS:

Vincent Price is in this? What???  Elke Sommer is as well, but she probably needed the work. This was also part of a lot purchase. If the film is called IT'S NOT THE SIZE THAT COUNTS, that implies it is about the size of the male lead's...personality. I wonder what his life was like AFTER the film. Did everyone just assume, based on the movie, he was diminutive in a certain area? (That is, of course, assuming anyone saw the movie). Ha!





THE BLACK CAT:

I already have (several) copies of this Lucio Fulci poster. It was also part of a lot purchase, but it's a Fulci...so hopefully there will be a resale value down the road (if i bother to list it myself on eBay or wherever),







THE SLASHER:

Another poster I already have...but one for a film I am curious about. Farley Granger and Sylva Koscina star. I've never seen it. To further add to the fascination with this flick, it was later re-released under the title "Penetration" with new porno inserts and other inserts. I haven't seen that either. But I wondered how Farley Granger felt being in a (SURPRISE!!!) porno flick. Ha!








MORTUARY:

There was, for whatever reason, a string of graveyard-themed  flicks in the 80s. MAUSOLEUM, FUNERAL HOME and this one, MORTUARY. Surprisingly (I just realized) I have never seen any of them. I tracked down the MAUSOLEUM and FUNERAL HOME posters easily...but MORTUARY? It always eluded me...until i FINALLY snagged one. Now they just seem to land in my lap quite often. Ha! Yes, this is another lot purchase. (Don't worry...there are NON-lot purchases coming up as well...)








DEMON WITCH CHILD:

I LOVE my EXORCIST knock-offs. DEMON WITCH CHILD is no exception. I finally got a non-bootleg DVD to watch a few years back. The bootleg was such awful quality. Oddly, I have NOT watched the (hopefully better) DVD yet. Ha! I have purchased this poster several times. It is a dull poster. However, every time I'd buy one, there'd be some flaw with it I didn't like and I'd need to buy another. I have since gotten a good enough copy...but the posters keep coming my way. EEK! This was, of course, part of a lot purchase, too.









STAR WARS - THE LAST JEDI:

I know what you are thinking...  Another lot purchase. Right? Right. Sorry. No, actually this was NOT a lot purchase. I do NOT know what I was thinking with this one. I'm always interested in picking up STAR WARS crap if it is cheap enough. I'm just not a fan. I couldn't tell you the names of any of the characters on this poster except those that appeared in the original trilogy (parts 4-6). It was going cheaply, so i bid on it....and then was outbid. I was online at the time (at work. Shh!), and got in a minor bidding war....and before I knew it, I paid way the @%#$& too much for this. UGH!!!!! I so thought I was over doing stupid things like that. Oh well.









PELVIS:

I have never seen this movie, but I love this idiotic poster...and have purchased it many times (I('m stupid that way). I know this film was later re-released as TOGA PARTY (after the success of ANIMAL HOUSE), but I never saw that either. The songs listed on the poster sound funny: "Nazi Lady", "All Dressed Up in Rubber with No Place to Go", and "If  That Isn't Love It's Emphysema". (What!?! Ha!). The movie probably sucks---but the poster I find fun. Not to be confused with any person living, dead, or immortalized. 










FANTASTIC VOYAGE:

I LOVE this cool old sci fi flick with Stephen Boyd, Raquel Welch and Donald Pleasence. The sets in the body are amazing. Too bad the poster isn't nearly as cool as the movie. The poster is a snoozer (Zzzzz), Yet, for YEARS I have tried to snag one. I finally scored one. Hooray!








HEADLESS EYES and THE GHASTLY ONES (combo re-release):

I know this may not look like much (and really...there isn't much to look at here. Ha!), but to me, this is my prize this batch. I've also been trying to snag this for years. I've never seen THE HEADLESS EYES, but the co-feature THE GHASTLY ONES is why I am interested in this poster. THE GHASTLY ONES is a trash epic by Andy Milligan. Milligan was a low-budget (no budget) auteur (more like auturd) who made a string of nudie films (like THE FILTHY FIVE, GUTTER TRASH, THE PROMISCUOUS SEX, FLESHPOT ON 42ND STREET, etc.), most of which are lost, as the producer (the notoriously cheap William Mishkin) melted all of the prints down for their silver value. Milligan is also notorious for his craptastic horror epics such as THE RATS ARE COMING THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE, BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS, TORTURE DUNGEON, etc. His films truly are dreadful and hard to watch (zzzzz), yet (especially the horror flicks) they were continuously re-released to drive ins and grindhouses for years. The best thing about them are the posters.(and I have a good many of them). This poster is not that fab...and GHASTLY ONES only takes up a small percentage of the poster, but I am thrilled to have one more Milligan piece in my collection. Hooray!




Okay gang. That's it today. Be sure to hang your speakers up before you head home. Check back in a few days as our next presentation is being readied now. Thank you for visiting.



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