Step right up, ladies and gents. Step right up and be prepared to see the most shocking cavalcade of perversions and horror ever seen. Can your heart stand such endless terror? Can your mind tolerate a non-stop assault on the senses? This is not for the faint at heart, the feeble minded or those who are sexually inexperienced. Be prepared to go beyond the limits of your imagination and beyond the limits of taste or morality. Get ready to experience the impossible and the unimaginable.
Don't I wish. Actually, it's just another so-so edition of the Shock-O-Rama Poster Show. But take a look-see if you like. It's cheap (FREE) and you might see something you've never seen before. (That's doubtful, but we can all hope. Right?)
Okay, the show is starting. But before we dim the lights and begin, let me remind you that there are no refunds. View at your own risk!
BEYOND EROTICA:
This was in a lot purchase. I wasn't even going to bother posting it...and then I looked at it more closely. David Hemmings and Alida Valli are in this? And it's rated R? The climax is only the beginning---clever tag line...but what is BEYOND EROTICA? Hmm. Lame poster though.
THE HUNTED:
I am guessing that this flick isn't that good. I've never heard of it--and I'm old(-ish). If it were some great flick, i'm sure it would have been picked up on my radar at some point... but it hasn't. But the poster makes it look like it should be good. It's a lot purchase. And while it's not a great poster, it's interesting. It got me wondering about the flick...I did find it's alternate title is TOUCH ME NOT and it was from 1974...but even though it has a 5.6 rating on IMDB, there are no reviews for it. Hmm.
SCORE:
I've seen this poster (which is as dull as they come) sell for quite a decent amount of money (and i have no idea why). So I was super surprised when I spotted this in my lot purchase. I think i may have purchased this on DVD a long while back...but I haven't bothered with it yet. It just doesn't look that interesting.But what do I know?
TERROR AT RED WOLF INN:
I think I may have this already--but I'm not sure. But if I do have one already, what the heck? No big deal. I could swear I have seen this flick... After reading the description on IMDB, scenes are flashing in my head. But where would I have seen this? Hmm.
TORSO:
I remember when this came out. I wanted to see it so bad. Of course, to my little 9 year old mind at the time, I thought it was going to be utterly gruesome. It's a 1973 Euro film but was released here in September 1974 (according to IMDB). TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE came out a month later. The success of TCM probably helped TORSO's business. (In my memory, TORSO came out AFTER TCM....and that may be the case in my home town. Back then, movies were not all released nationwide at the same time. They played an area for a while, then moved to another area and played there, before moving on again.) I've still never seen the flick. The poster is just a cheap photo collage. The saw and the tagline with the word psychosexual were probably enough to get 1974 audiences in. Oh well. i'm not dead yet. Maybe I'll see it some day.
THE CREATURES/FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE/THE CREATURES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE:
I thought this title was a little fishy. I wasn't sure if I had this poster already or not. But the cast looked familiar and, yep...THE CREATURES and FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE are the same movie. It has even been issued as THE CREATURES FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE according to IMDB. Not a great poster--but okay-ish. Whatever...
NEW HOUSE ON THE LEFT / NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS/LAST STOP ON THE NIGHT TRAIN/LAST HOUSE - PART II/SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT/CHRISTMAS MASSACRE:
I love the fact that the US distributors tried to pawn this off on the public as a sequel to LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. In fact, it was released with several different titles to make it seem like a sequel (LAST HOUSE - PART II and SECOND HOUSE ON THE LEFT). The movie IS a ripoff of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, but it takes place on a train---not in a house. I love how the poster makes it appear as if the girl is in a chair near the living room window, when she is actually on a train seat. Nothing shown in the window is ever in the movie. Still, LAST STOP ON THE NIGHT TRAIN is a gritty little movie on its own--despite being a LAST HOUSE knock off.
KEEP MY GRAVE OPEN:
S.F. Brownrigg made a string of regional films back in the 70s that were almost good. Of the four flicks he is known (DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT, DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, SCUM OF THE EARTH and KEEP MY GRAVE OPEN), I prefer SCUM OF THE EARTH. That flick was later re-titled POOR WHITE TRASH 2 and features the only filmed "okie blow" (blowing snot out of your nose onto the ground) I've ever seen on film. There are no okie blows in KEEP MY GRAVE OPEN---but it might have helped. The film is about a woman who lives in a run down old mansion somewhere in Texas and who may or may not be crazy. It starts off well, but falls apart by the end. Still, it is a shame that Brownrigg didn't make more films. There really is promise in his low-rent thrillers from the 70s. He made one silly comedy in the mid-80s and that was it. He died in the mid-90s at age 58.
HOUSE ON SORORITY ROW:
I've seen the remake, but never the original...which is odd because it seemed like I was always at the movies in the 80s...and yet somehow I missed a lot of the lower-tiered 80s slasher classics. Any good? Worth the bother?
CORPSE EATERS:
I love this poster even though the film (which is super hard to track down) is kind of a dud. I have a coupe of copies of it already, but why not one more? The amazing thing about this poster is that there seem to be a lot of them floating around out there...and yet the film never really had much of a theatrical run. Why were so many posters made? I'm just glad I got to see the flick and have a few of these cool beauties myself. Are there any other post-NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD/pre-DAWN OF THE DEAD zombie flicks I still need posters for? Hmm...
Okay--that was short and not too filling. Do you still have room for more cheese and sleaze? Stay tuned because another installment of the Shock-O-Rama Poster Show is coming VERY soon. BEWARE!!!
CHEERS!
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