Hi there. Gather around boils and ghouls, it's time once again for the Shock-A-Rama Poster Show. Does everyone have their Freak-O-Vision glasses on? Groovy! Before we get started, i need to do some shout outs.
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Jeff, I just wanted to THANK YOU again for your attempt at helping me with my post yesterday. I am having a crappy day today (literally--details to follow if you really want to know) and hope things go smoothly this time. Fingers crossed!
Ari, don't be jealous. It was only produced (not directed) by Lewton...and, unless i ever score the original release poster, there's really nothing to get jealous of (Now that original release poster--zowie! That's awesome!)
Mister
e! I'm so glad you know the movie "BURIAL GROUND", not that it's a great movie (it's not), but because someone else gets the frame of reference. Glad you like the posters. Anxious to see more of your stuff myself. Cheers!
Stew! Thanks for saying hello. I know what you mean about that Thai ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. Kind of throws everything off. Oh well, someone has to have it. Hee hee! Thanks for visiting.
Rosa and
Steve--So glad you both dig the "X FROM OUTER SPACE" poster. You understand how i felt when i saw the other one someone posted on the new acquisitions thread a while back. I loved it. It really worked for me and I had to get one myself. Thumbs way up on that one.
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Ted, were you channeling Jimmy Walker (who is not even dead yet) when you gave your overall review of my new posters ("DynOmite")? Ha! Glad you liked them. Thanks for looking.
Mike, o those amazing Thais. Even something like the first RAMBO movie is better as a Thai poster than the US version. And you say there are several styles? For each movie? Wow! You need to post your collection in ONE [place so we can see it all. Amazing. Thanks!
Okay--I think i covered everyone. Now let's get this poster party started. (Fingers crossed everything works this time.)::
COLOSSUS: THE FORBIDDEN PROJECT (German): I've never seen this movie. I bought the poster strictly based on the poster. It was colorful and I thought it really popped.
THE GHOST (Belgian): Although I have a one sheet for this (scroll way, way back), I thought this was a fun and colorful addition. Now, by the light of day, it's not that exciting. Oh well.
CANNIBAL MAN: I just watched this over Halloween weekend. It's not really a cannibal movie, but an interesting study into one man's decent into his own personal hell. I decided I liked the movie well enough to get the poster. I couldn't find one. There are Spanish ones out there with the original title (Week of the Murderer--or something like that). I spied a poster in English with yet another alternate title (Something like The Apartment on the 13th Floor)--but it's really dull and really expensive. Emovie just had one--a Belgian with gruesome artwork of a guy with a meat cleaver in his face and the title "Cannibal man" below it--but it went crazy high and I dropped out. Then this little gem fell into my lap. It has the artwork from the original Spanish release and the title I desired. Sold!
JAWS 3D (Japanese chirashi): I got one of these Japanese mini-posters for JAWS 3D not long ago. But when i came across this one, I realized it was completely different than the one I had already purchased. So i got this one as well.
DEEP ADVENTURE: I had never heard of this film when I stumbled on the poster. Although it's kind of dark (is that the poster or the photo?), I was digging on the shark and all of the underwater activity. Why not?
LADY IN CEMENT: Eh.. I've seen this around a few times, but finally decided to pick one up. I've heard the movie is not that good, but you've got Frank Sinatra and Raquel Welch (and Hoss from "Bonanza"? Ha!). Go for it.
INVASION OF THE ASTRO MONSTER (Thai): I've also seen this around as well, but only picked it up when i found one cheap enough. Is INVASION OF THE ASTRO MONSTER the same thing as GODZILLA VS MONSTER ZERO? Always happy to get a new Thai poster. This one is fun.
OMEN 4: THE AWAKENING: I know. I know. This 4th film in the OMEN series is just crap. Fortunately for us in the US, it was a TV movie--so we didn't have to shell out a dime to see it. The rest of the world was not that lucky and they had to see it in theaters. I decided to pick this standard one sheet size poster up so i could have one sheets for each of the films,,,even though the poster leaves a lot to be desired as well.
ZOMBIE LAKE (Belgian): This is actually the very first time I've encountered any poster art work for the admittedly awful "ZOMBIE LAKE". But i dig my zombie flicks, so why not? EEEK!
FANTASM: Steve, I told you I had something you'd like in this installment. This poster is one of those cases where you are bidding on something else you really want--and to pad out the shipping costs, you bid on a few other things as well. Of course i LOST out on the thing I really wanted--but still ended up with this. I've been intrigued by this title for a long while. At first I thought it was a softcore version of the horror movie "PHANTASM". But "PHANTASM" was 1979, and this hails from 1976. Hmm. I think this is an Australian movie (?) with American porn stars (?) but completely softcore. The poster is, i think, Australian too--size is a little smaller than a one sheet--but bigger than a daybill. This poster would never see the light of day in a regular theater in 1976 over here. Yowza.
And that is all for today. My bad luck from last night continues on into today. (I need to go and buy a plunger. Need i say more?)
Have a better day than me.
CHEERS!
