The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2023 #9

 

Welcome! Get your tickets and take your seat.The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show is about to begin. I am still disabled and only getting worse…yet, uh, um…I’m spending money on my ADDICTION to posters that I really have NO BUSINESS doing. Why? Because I am STUPID. (But I LOVE staring at them…) Waaaaagh!

Anyway—-my stupidity is your viewing pleasure (or however you want to term it…). 

Here we go…

THE LADY IN THE MORGUE (1942 RE-RELEASE):

This isn't something that I'd usually buy. I've never seen this old mystery/whodunit flick. Despite this being a re-release poster (The original, with completely different art, hails from 1938.), I decided to go ahead and buy this 81-year-old gem for several reasons. I like the monster-ish hands reaching in at the couple. I dig the purple/green color scheme. The old school font is awesome...and one of its co-stars is Barbara Pepper, who brilliantly played Mrs. Ziffel (Arnold the pig's "mom") on GREEN ACRES. Ha! The most important reason was the price. I think this was only $20? SOLD!

GREMLINS:

I already have one of these, but stupid me couldn't turn up a bargain priced copy. (UGH! I sooo can NOT afford to do that any more...)

BLOOD CREATURE (Re-release of TERROR IS A MAN):

Recently, my friend Ray Wyland (aka Tiki With Ray), asked to interview me as an “expert” (Uh…) on the BLOOD ISLAND film series for his vlog. (He was approached by a promotor for the Kickstarter campaign trying to revive the series. The campaign ends Nov. 2nd.) Sure, I had seen all of the films (on DVD) and I have all of the one sheets for the series. There are three core movies in the series (BRIDES OF BLOOD, MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND, and BEAST OF BLOOD), all of them star John Ashley (if you know who he was). There is another film that is sort of (maybe) in the series that was produced 9 years before the main trilogy (of which the first one is a completely different story line from the other two and John Ashley plays a different character in BRIDES than he does in the subsequent films) called TERROR IS A MAN. It was later re-released with BLOOD in the title as BLOOD CREATURE. As the dubious “expert” (Ha!) on the series, getting this one sheet was a MUST! I’m actually thrilled.

TARZAN'S MAGIC FOUNTAIN: 

Okay, so it's not in as nice of shape as I'd like, but I am still pretty pumped to have scored this vintage TARZAN poster. This film stars Lex Barker, the successor to the loin cloth after Johnny Weismueller "retired" (aka "aged out") from the role. He only played the swinging Lord of the Jungle five times. I have two other one sheets (TARZAN'S PERIL, TARZAN AND THE SHE-DEVIL) with Barker...Now, with this one, I just need two more (TARZAN AND THE SLAVE GIRL. TARZAN'S SAVAGE FURY).

THANKSGIVING:

Gobble! Gobble! I am ever so excited and delighted that my favorite fake trailer from GRINDHOUSE is finally becoming a real movie. Of course I had to snag the poster. However, truth be told, I really do not know how Roth will deliver the goods on the promise of what was in that trailer. The trailer was brilliant and campy. The movie...may get sloppy. I hope he doesn't change it too much.

FRANKENHOOKER:

"Want a date?" FINALLY--after years of searching (I don't think I already have one. Do I?), I have scored the poster for FRANKENHOOKER! Yahoo! 

DEEP RED:

Oh my stars! HOW many decades have I been trying to get one of these? It has obviously been handled, but is still in pretty darn good condition.  YAHOO!!!!! I already have it in a frame.

THE RAVEN (linen): 

Wow! Despite it being yet another freakin’ poster on linen (Grrrr.), zowie! What a thrill to have this fab poster of the fun AIP Poe adaptation with Karloff, Price, and Lorre! Such a classic! How delightful!

THE INVISIBLE MAN'S REVENGE: This was an unexpected surprise! Although it is the last in the series (before Abbott and Costello showed up), I'll still take it. GLADLY! I have the 3-sheet (which is totally different), but prefer one sheets. Unfortunately, it is on linen. But at this stage of the game, I'll never have one if I wait for an unbacked one. (They've all disappeared! Ha!)

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (linen):

UGH! More linen…but what a sweet poster? Like INVISIBLE MAN’S REVENGE, you gotta get what you can get. I already have ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. This is a nicer image than that one. While it is a comedy, it still features a classic Universal “monster”.  I shouldn’t have gotten this. There was something that closed just before this one that I really wanted, but missed. There was something else I also really wanted—-which got WAY out of my league quickly. So—in frustration—I bid and bid and bid and….oops! This was mine. But I do really like it.

And that makes 10. This should be my last post of new purchases for a while. I am “wintering” (Ha!) at a friend’s house in California until mid-February. I can’t really have posters coming here. That would be rude and how would I get them home again? But…I’ve always got my eye out. Hmm.

I hope your holidays (if this IS the last one of the year) are merry. Happy Halloween (Just barely made that one. BOO!), Thanksgiving, Chanukah, Christmas, Kwanza, New Year, Fake Jan Day, and anything else I may have forgotten.

Finally— if you’d like a gander at my horror movie poster-themed mail art, the most recent posts are linked below. Thanks for taking a look at today’s poster posting.

CHEERS!

The first lot of mail art HERE.

The second batch is HERE.

The third (and final—for now) post is HERE. 

See ya next time…