The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2021 #9

 

EEK! The late night Shock-O-Rama Poster Show is about to begin. While nothing to brag about, this poster show came together rather unexpectedly and quickly. Don't push. Don't crowd. There's plenty of room for all. 

Oh, the lights are dimming. The show is starting...

SCOOB (Advance):

I've been a life-long Scooby Doo fan. Hello? A cartoon about teens detectives encountering spooky monsters? What's not to love? Before the pandemic, a new Scooby Doo movie was set to come out. The pandemic hit, the film was pulled (and sent directly to DVD/VOD), and that was that. I scored an advance poster for the film (with a young Scooby with a shadow behind him of what he'd grow to become) a while back...and then spotted this one---and it was fairly cheap. I still hadn't seen the flick, but it was Scooby. Why not? After getting the poster, I discovered that the movie was actually playing locally at our second-run theater. I guess since our theaters have reopened, they were hungry for programming and SCOOB got pulled from non-theatrical purgatory. 

The movie...eh, it could have been better. I was surprised it had big names (Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Zac Efron, Will Forte, etc.) doing some of the voices and there were Scooby/Hanna-Barbera Easter eggs all over the place. But...it could have been so much more than it was. I'll probably never display this poster (the only Scooby poster I've ever hung/displayed was for the video release of SCOOBY DOO ON ZOMBIE ISLAND), but that's okay.

THE SUICIDE SQUAD (Advance):

I know I mentioned getting an advance poster for THE SUICIDE SQUAD in my previous post. This is a second copy. When i saw this poster hanging in the theater, I was so excited to see poster art that had been painted, I went a little wild. I didn't realize it, but I'd taken a photo of the poster in the lobby (below). Ha!

I'm not a super hero kind of guy, I probably will NOT even see this flick. But after decades of posters of Photoshopped floating heads of the movie's stars--the painted work just sent me into orbit. I bought (stupidly, I suppose) a second copy. I've actually committed to buying a third from Dale Dilts (ddilts339 on eBay) along with a few other things.

STUNT ROCK:

I had tried (unsuccessfully) to score this poster from some of the recent lot auctions on eMovie. Usually, this was the only poster I wanted, so I only half-heartedly tried to score it...and always failed. I hoped that eventually one of the lot buyers would list their purchases on eBay and I could buy myself a copy. Lo' and behold, someone did. I've never seen the flick (had never even heard of it until I saw the poster), but the art I found interesting. It makes me imagine the movie is a cross between ROCK AND ROLL NIGHTMARE (which I've also not seen) and DEATH PROOF. The background skull was, of course, the most attractive thing for me. I didn't even know if it had been released on DVD or BluRay, but found there was a Code Red 2-disc version put out in 2009...that now sells for a minimum of $75. Yowza! The reviews I've found say it's trash--but in a gleefully so-bad-it's-good way. Maybe someone will re-release it. (Are you listening Severin, Vinegar Syndrome, Synapse, etc?)

DRACULA 2000 (Canadian):

I am ashamed that I have have also NOT seen Wes Craven's DRACULA 2000. I'd heard not-so-great things about it, so I never got around to it. (I actually got all three films in the series on DVD in 2012, according to Amazon, but have NOT bothered to watch them yet.) This Canadian poster is different than the US version. Why not?

ANTLERS:

I've heard good things about this upcoming horror film (which is debuting near Halloween, I believe, after being sidelined by COVID for a long while). Guillermo Del Toro is on board as producer, so that is indeed promising. The poster isn't much. Let's hope the film is much better...

THE CATMAN OF PARIS and VALLEY OF THE ZOMBIES (re-release combo):

I actually have a copy of this poster hanging in my kitchen. I don't know what I was thinking buying another. Perhaps I'm hoping for an upgrade? I've seen a lot of the old zombie movies, but can't seem to track down VALLEY OF THE ZOMBIES. CATMAN OF PARIS is equally elusive. (I bought THE LEOPARD MAN once, and oops! Obviously the WRONG film. Ha!) Someday I may track them down... Fun, old, re-release combo poster from 1956, though.

ROTTWEILER (aka DOGS OF HELL):

I've purchased two or three (more?) copies of this poster over the years, but every one of them has had flaws that just do not jibe with me...and so I'd have to go on hunting for a replacement. I got this on eMovie not too long back, and the description (I don't actually have it in my hands yet) make it sound like I can finally cross this off my list. What's the big deal about the ROTTWEILER poster? Well, to the casual poster buff...nothing. To me, though, there are several things going for it. 

First, ROTTWEILER was one of the 3D films that came out during the gimmick's brief revival in the early 80s. Always a sucker for a gimmick (especially 3D), this made this poster a must-have. The film was made by a filmmaker named Earl Owensby in North Carolina. Most of his films played regionally at drive ins. In the early 80s, he cranked out several 3D features. In addition to ROTTWEILER, I have posters for his 3D flicks HOT HEIR (a seeming play on hot air ballooning), and TALES OF THE THIRD DIMENSION. NONE of Owensby's films ever played in my town--so I never got to see ROTTWEILER or the others (in 3D or even flat!). I have seen something of his called HYPERSPACE (an odd, not-so-funny comic movie featuring a young Paula Poundstone and Chris Elliott) and the bargain basement werewolf shocker WOLFMAN (both on DVD). Based on WOLFMAN (with its claustrophobic and cluttered sets and period costumes), I have long since thought of Owensby as North Carolina's answer to Andy Milligan. I could be (and probably am) all wrong. I've always heard that the 3D in Owensby's films, at the very least, was outstanding. Whatever. I am just thrilled to finally have a decent ROTTWEILLER. Thank you, eMovie!

HARD CANDY:

Another sought after 3D poster...  Yes, it's for an adult porn flick. No, I have not seen this either. This was one of the few posters for an adult 3D flick I didn't have a copy of yet. This one features the Lollipop Girls !?! They're lickin' good! (Oh my!) (I have another adult 3D poster for something called HOT SKIN that features the Disco Dolls. BOTH films star John Holmes.)

PRIMITIV (aka PRIMITIVES and SAVAGE TERROR)(Italian 2F):

I am not sure I have ever seen a U.S. release poster for this Indonesia(?)-lensed cannibal flick. Was it released here? Hmm. I have seen this film twice before---and they were terrible copies both times. Once was on a bootleg DVD. The other on a double feature DVD (with a nifty cover), but was some horrible, hard-to-see VHS transfer. Severin recently released an uncut, cleaned up version on BluRay (which I have ordered, but not seen yet). We'll see how it is...but I'm not holding my breath. I am glad to have scored the poster though.

HENRY ALDRICH HAUNTS A HOUSE:

I had never heard of this flick from 1943, until I came across this poster. While the poster isn't the most exciting and doesn't feature many spooky elements, the art is nice and the poster was not that expensive...so why not? Apparently there were several Henry Aldrich films that were popular in the early 1940s. 

That's ten, so that's it for the posters. I don't know why I keep buying, buying, buying. I guess it truly IS an addiction. But everything I buy has to be re-packed for my upcoming move. UGH! So far, I've gone through and removed 75 posters from their frames for safe transport. (I'll be driving the posters up personally.) The frames, in groups of five, are wrapped and ready to go (as shown below). Still well more than 125 left to go...and I have NOT started taking posters off of my walls yet either. (Those will come down last. I love seeing them so much, I hate to have naked walls until the move.)

But I haven't even touched the tip of the iceberg. The poster room/office is a disaster and I have so much CRAP to dig through still. I really hope I don't buy anything else until after the move as I really have NO TIME to deal with anything but packing. UGH!

Anyway, thanks for visiting. Keep cool this summer (if at all possible...) May all of your poster dreams come true. CHEERS!