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Friday, October 7, 2016
HALLOWEEN BAG O' 8mm HORROR MOVIE BOX ART EYE CANDY!
For a nice early bag o' candy, eye candy, I gots a batch of 13 very cool 8mm movie box art to chew on! Happy Halloween to all, and to all... Almond Joy!
What's fun about 8mm box art is that there's usually a kitsch factor going on. With FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD, he rolled the seven wonders of the world into one!
Here, the MYSTERIOUS DR. SATAN tries to conquer the world with a death-dealing robot...
I used to have two 8mm movies we liked to watch, TARANTULA! was one of them. And, it destroys everything in its path!!
With this title, DOOM OF DRACULA, they changed the name for the mini movie. Obviously, it was taken from HOUSE OF DRACULA.
In TROG, from a million years back, horror explodes into today!.. With Joan Crawford.
Hammer's HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN uses great colors in this example of box art, nice!
I'm not sure of which movie KING KONG BATTLES THE MONSTERS comes from, I guess you'd have to buy this title to know from where it came!
This HOUSE OF WAX either uses the wrong art, or, the movie is actually NIGHTMARE IN WAX starring Cameron Mitchell... Roll the dice!
Edgar Allen Poe's MASTER OF HORROR is a fine example of kitschy art, bold and brash!
RODAN The Flying Monster was the other 8mm movie I used to have. Both titles I had are lost, left at an ex-girlfiend's house in the late sixties...
SHADOW OF THE WEREWOLF wins the Kitsch Award for this batch of box art! Again, I have no idea which movie this really is. My guess is that it's one of the many Euro flicks starring Paul Naschy.
THE TRIAL OF FRANKENSTEIN is, of course, a mini flicker taken from THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN.
THE WOMAN IN THE COFFIN is my favorite piece of box art in this pile. What the Hell movie is this from?!! Great titillating artwork!!
So, we're back tomorrow where we'll continue with our HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN!!
So, we're back tomorrow where we'll continue with our HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN!!
Some old childhood memories... and a great posy,Guys...
ReplyDeleteWOW X 1000, incredible post! remember having a few of these ole super 8's, awesome, will link ya up on this.
ReplyDeleteThanks Doc, thanks Tommy, you guys make our day! Glad you enjoyed the post...
ReplyDeleteI've never owned any of these items (or any other films in the FORM of film), but knowing them from the Warren magazine ads is enough reason to be sentimental about them.
ReplyDeleteThese are great. I would pay good money for a replica of that Dr. Satan robot!
ReplyDeleteI remember the ads in Famous Monsters and other Warren magazines.
ReplyDeleteFM had a Q&A column, and once a fan asked about Doom of Dracula. "Professor Gruebeard" explained that it was an excerpt from House of Frankenstein. IIRC, there was also one called "The Wolf Man's Cure," which I assume was from House of Dracula.
AFAIK, the Japanese Frankenstein monster never appeared in another movie, although War of the Gargantuas was sort of a sequel to it. The monster Barugon did return in Destroy All Monsters.
That King Kong one could be from the 1933 original, or King Kong Escapes (1967 or '68), or maybe even King Kong vs. Godzilla.
Mysterious Dr. Satan was a serial. There was a feature version called Dr. Satan's Robot that used to turn up on late night TV, along with other feature versions of Republic Pictures serials: Spy Smasher Returns, Ghost of Zorro, Lost Planet Airmen, etc. There were also 8mm movies edited from Captain Marvel and Zorro Rides Again. There were probably others, too, but those are the ones I remember.
I Googled "Woman in the Coffin" and got ads for funeral parlors. Then I tried "8mm movie Woman In the Coffin" and got a site or blog called Fantaterror, about Spanish horror movies. Evidently, Woman in the Coffin is part of a Jess Franco film called Gritos en la Noche.
ReplyDeleteI think Trog may have been Joan Crawford's last movie. Man, her career really took a nose dive in the late 1960's. Jamie Lee Curtis started out in low budget horror films and later moved up to the A list. Joan went the opposite route.
Wow Guys!.. Thank you for all the extra input, makes things lots more interesting around here!
ReplyDeleteYo Jonny, I may be able to help you out with that robot, in my wheelhouse...
ReplyDeleteShould read "Great Post"... all of our collection (and the projector) was borrowed by a Police officer (who knew my Uncle)... and the sorry cop refused to give them back... Nothing that we could do...
ReplyDeleteI had to be told this somewhere - though it's pretty obvious once you hear it - but the "TROG" mask is actually one of the ape-man masks from 2001:A SPACE ODYSSEY. It manages to look so different just by being in some escapist movie about a revived caveman that it LOOKS familiar but you don't place it! Or at least, I didn't until I was told.
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