Oh my stars… Welcome back to the Shock-O-Rama poster show! I’m surprised you’re here. I realize my last few entries have been… Rather lacking. I appreciate your faith in me that I’ll have something interesting to show you in the future. Notice I didn’t say “now”? That’s because now… Yeah, I don’t have anything interesting to show you today. It’s like that expression “same sh!t, different day” one to life! That’s not to say that there aren’t things here you’ve never seen before. There might be. There are things I had never seen before in this batch. The question is, are they interesting or worth your time or not? I vote no… but that’s just me. I guess we’ll find out. Take a gander, if you choose to. The show is about to begin. Take a seat if you want to stay. Otherwise… Head to the exit exits while you can.
VENOM:
I know nothing about this movie. I think it was a big flop-a-rama, but I’m not sure. Why I get this? Well… What has been my driving force lately when making poster selections? Style? No. Collectibility? No. Cheap price? Hell, yes! Mystery solved…
What is this? When did
Jack Palance ever work with Laura “Black Emmanuelle” Gemser? Apparently, in 1976… The year after “Black Emmanuelle” debuted. And what an insane sounding plot. Palance stars as a man obsessed with snakes. Gemser is an erotic dancer who dances with a python. According to
IMDB, Palance hires or invites Gemser to care for his pet snakes at home…and things get grim. Hmm… It sounds like something I might need to see. Ha ha! The poster isn’t all that fab, but when I came across this, I only had moments to decide if I was gonna buy it or not. The poster was unknown to me. The cast interested me. So I went for it. It was… The magic word… Cheap!
I already have a copy of this poster… Or two… Or three… I’m a CARRIE junkie. Couple that with my love for bad movies, am I getting multiple copies of this poster is a no-brainer.… Especially when it was cheap. Most people are not aware of this movie. It’s really bad. It’s a sequel to the original (and far superior) CARRIE from 1976, based on the novel by
Stephen King. But Carrie died at the end of the first film along with everybody else, you say? Well… Not everybody else. Sue Snell, the character played by
Amy Irving, survived the original movie. In this sequel that came out more than a decade later, she plays a guidance counselor at a high school. And guess what? Carrie’s absent father, Ralph White, apparently impregnated somebody else. He is the one who passed on the telekinetic genes to Carrie. So this new film, isn’t about Carrie White. It’s about her… half sister that she never knew. It’s a very basic retread. The sister…( I don’t remember her name. Let’s just call her Carrie 2.) is sort of an outcast in high school. She’s kind of Goth-nerdy. I don’t recall exactly what happens, but it seems to be a by the book remake of the original film… with substitutions thrown in at key plot points. Instead of a prom? We have a big party at some rich person‘s house. There are mean teens and a few nice ones…and Sue Snell/Amy Irving still trying to help awkward Carrie (2) fit in. The results go just about as expected. It’s a bad movie. And one of the strangest parts of it is that there is a call back to
Margaret White, Carrie‘s mother, who was played by Piper Laurie, and who is long dead before the events in this film. Inexplicably, you can hear Margaret White saying “they’re all gonna laugh at you” several times. That’s what Margaret said to Carrie in the original film. But nobody in this film… not even Amy Irving‘s character… would have heard her say that. It just shows up out of nowhere. Very strange. Of course, I’m obsessed. Of course this was cheap. Sold! Sold! Sold!
I had never heard of this movie when I came across this poster. It’s apparently a very gruesome German film about an autopsy school or medical school. I don’t think it had a very big release here. I figured the poster — even though it’s not very exciting looking —was on the rare side, so I picked it up… Cheap. (You don’t have to dissect my wallet to know I can’t afford much.)
I already have one of these… Maybe I have two of these? But I stumbled on this one and it was… Drum roll please… Inexpensive. I still haven’t seen the film. However, I don’t think it had a very big release. I’m making the print run of the poster was limited. So if it becomes a cult down the road, I am hoping that the poster increases in value. It’ll probably end up being forgotten, and the posters will be worthless. That’s my luck.
I have only seen one or two of the PUPPET MASTER movies. However, I am aware that they are popular for whatever reason (Shhh! I wasn’t too impressed by what I remember seeing of the films in the series I did see.),
so I bought this as an investment, really. It’s a straight-to-video poster… But the movie never played theatrically.
NIGHT WATCH:
This is another poster for which I have no idea what the film is about. It has some strange characters on the bottom… Was this originally Russian or something? I did like the image though. I think I have another style of poster for the same film. I’m not entirely sure though. Is this worth tracking down?
I probably already have this poster, but believe it or not, I’ve never seen the movie. This is
Gus Van Sant’s first film, I believe. I have been wanting to see it for years. For now, the poster will have to do.
I really dig this creepy poster for the recent sequel. I know they are trying to turn this into a. NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET-type franchise. At least, that was the vibe I got while watching it. Whether it happens or not, no big deal. The poster is cool. That’s all I need.
13 FRIGHTENED GIRLS (insert):
I dig my
William Castle. This isn’t my favorite film of his, but I had to have it anyway. While I have the one sheet, I was surprised to see that the artwork on this insert was completely different. I don’t think this movie had a gimmick… Did it? Oh well.
And that is my 10 for this time. I am having technical difficulties… My computer, my desktop computer anyway, is down for the count. I’m going through chemotherapy for cancer. AND, For whatever reason, I cannot seem to upload images onto my blog anymore. WTF!?! I do have plenty of crap, er… Fabulous posters (Not so fabulous) To share with you in the coming weeks or months… Depending on whenever I can get things “fixed” again.
Thanks for visiting. Cheers!
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