Monster A GoGo's Shock-O-Rama Poster Show

It's time to return to the grindhouses and drive-ins...if only metaphorically...as we take in another batch o' posters I've acquired. You know the drill. Take a gander or don't.  Here they are... THE GHASTLY ONES: This film is in "cranium-cleaving color"! Zowie! This was an Andy Milligan movie poster I did not own until now. Always nice to have another title from the Milligan oeuvre as I am a fan--although WHY is beyond me as the movies are so notoriously AWFUL.  Ha. I'm happy to have it, though. As an aside, you'll notice the shot of  42nd Street below. The theatre closest to the camera is showing an Andy Milligan double feature. No, NOT "THE GHASTLY ONES". Instead it's "THE FILTHY FIVE" and "THE PROMISCUOUS SEX", both films which are now lost (the producer melted all of the prints for their silver content. UGH!) BLOOD SUCKERS and BLOOD THIRST (combo): This is not the poster I got, just a...

It's time to go back in time to the grindhouse or drive in and take a gander at some posters in the lobby. Not really, of course. These are just some more posters I've recently acquired that I'm sharing. The accompanying photos of theaters, drive ins, etc. are taken from the internet. They are not mine and I've never been to these places...with the exception of the first photo for the Sunnyside Drive In. Although I did not take this photo, nor was I around for its gala premiere, I DID see many movies at the Sunnyside. The Sunnyside was (past tense---it's just a big, vacant lot now) died out in the mid-80s. Often times, for me, the treat wasn't watching a movie on (as it was billed long after I'm sure another had the title) "the world's largest screen". The real thrills (or chills) could be had by looking out the back window of our little blue Ford Pinto at the 2nd, smaller screen on the western end of the lot. It was there I got to see sn...