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The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2020 #8


Welcome back to the Shock-O-Rama Poster Show. Tonight's show is about ready to launch. You may want to grab a snack...or maybe something a little stronger? This one is going to be a tough one to sit through. It's a total crap fest. SNORE!


Okay--let's get this done ASAP...


TWO WEEKS IN SEPTEMBER:

My 2nd or 3rd (4th?) Brigitte Bardot poster...and, I'm sorry, but the posters for her films are not that eye catching. Blah.





TEEN VAMP:

I had never heard of this, but the poster was cheap and rolled. I do like the license plate on the car, "BLOODMBL". Clever. The poster kind of makes it look like Archie goes vampire...RIVERDALE meets VAMPIRE DIARIES, perhaps?







SAMSON AND DELILAH (1968 re-release):

Normally I would have passed on a biblical epic poster (snore). However, I think this 1968 re-release poster is trying to ride on the coattails of the HERCULES/peplum/gladiator flicks of the 60s--which I think are a hoot (more or less). Plus it was super cheap so...why not?





BAD CHANNELS (Video):

Oh my stars. Ha! This is a bad (cheesy bad) Charles Band schlockfest from the 80s about an alien (that pile of poop-looking guy under the word "channels") who becomes a DJ at a small town radio station to find women to send back to his planet. Huh? Exactly! MTV original VJ Martha Quinn stars. Yes, this is a video poster. I don't believe this flick ever had a theatrical release (but I may be wrong...).






NETHERWORLD (video):

Yes, this is a video poster. I don't believe this flick ever played theatrically either. I saw this back in the day on VHS. I remember specifically renting this from The Video Zone. Ha! The poster is cool looking. The movie? Not so much... Oh well. It is nostalgia for me (and was cheap--less than $5. Ha!)






THE CRAVING:

This US release poster for one of Paul Naschy's werewolf flick is better known as NIGHT OF THE WEREWOLF. I somehow completely missed this release in the early 80s. Did it even play in my town? Probably not. Rolled poster--not bad. (Director Jack Molina is also Naschy).





THE EVICTORS:

I only just recently saw this flick. It was a bonus movie on the 2-disc release of the original THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (which I also just watched for the first time). Both films (by Charles (THE LEGEND OF BOGEY CREEK) Pierce were good--but not great--with SUNDOWN being the better of the two. Still, when I came across this poster and saw that it was going cheap, I thought why not?





GIDGET:

You are probably shaking you head over this. GIDGET? Really? Yes, really. I am a fan of the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello BEACH PARTY movie series. If it weren't for the success of GIDGET (the film and the book series), the BEACH PARTY series may never have happened. Sandra Dee stars as the Girl mIDGET (get it?). Cliff Robertson is the Big Kahuna. James Darren is Moondoggy, the only original actor to star in all three films in the GIDGET series. (And, yes, I have posters for GIDGET GOES HAWAIIAN and GIDGET GOES TO ROME). Fun fact--GIDGET is based on a real person, the daughter of novelist Frederick Kohner.





CLASS OF 1999 (video one sheet):

This is a sequel to THE CLASS OF 1984 (from 1982). Yes, it is a video poster. I liked it better than the one sheet (but the European version is way better than this one). This film was kind of TERMINATOR meets ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK in my eye. This poster was also cheap---like most of the other stuff in my post today. I really need to bow out of poster buying for a while (as I had planned before the virus hit). I'm trying to finish this batch o' 10 posters off as quickly and as cheaply as possible. Hence, this video poster and a lot of the other crapola I'm sharing today...





THE WOLF MAN (1962 military re-release):

Wow! WOW! W-O-W!!! Getting any paper on Universal's classic monsters is impossible and totally out of my price range/grasp. Even the re-release stuff is insanely high. The military stuff was more reasonable, but even that is now expensive. I almost had to pass on this, but I was sure I'd never have another chance at one. It was far more than I could afford right now---but I could NOT let it go-go. (Blame it on a full moon, perhaps?) This is my first WOLF MAN anything. Zowie! And what a classic horror cast!?! Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi, Evelyn Ankers, Claude Rains, Ralph Belamy, Maria Duspenskaya. And it's a tri-fold in super condition. This WILL be framed and hanging on my walls ASAP. (Who ever thought anyone could be this excited over a military poster? Ha!)





Thank you for visiting. I will be back with projects and other news, but it will probably be a long while before I'm back with new posters. Stay SAFE!

That's all for now. It's time for me to blast off and get outta here.




CHEERS!





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