Saturday, August 21, 2010

"Women of the Prehistoric Planet" Original Half Sheet. The VHS box proclaims "The Most Spectacular and Exciting Science Fiction Film Ever Released on April 15, 1966!" Ha ha. A spaceship crashes on a sparsely populated planet. When rescuers arrive, they find decades have passed, and only the crew's descendants still alive. Often confused with "Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women" for obvious reasons. 1966.

Friday, August 20, 2010

"Some Girls Do" Original Half Sheet. This is the 1969 sequel to "Deadlier Than the Male." Richard Johnson reprises his role as Hugh Drummond. This time, he's investigating a series of accidents that befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. The project is being sabotaged by an evil mastermind who has a group of female androids at his disposal. (Actually beautiful women with robot brains.) This movie is currently unavailable in the States, but if you have a region free DVD player or live in the U.K. there's a really nice set of both movies. Here's the trailer.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

"Rampage" Original Half Sheet. Beautiful art on this poster. World-renowned big game hunter Harry Stanton (Robert Mitchum) is commissioned by a German zoo to capture a very rare half tiger/ half leopard. Along for the ride are Otto Abbott (Jack Hawkins) and his seductive young mistress Anna (Elsa Martinelli). This movie is now available from the very expensive Warner Brothers Archive Collection on DVD-R. Although I'd like to see it, I'm not prepared to pay that much for a non-pressed DVD unless it's something I really want to see.
"The Devil's Bride" Original One Sheet. The Duc de Richeleau (played by Christopher Lee) and his friend Rex discover their young charge Simon is about to fall in with a group of devil worshippers. Being an expert in the occult, he tries to stop it and finds himself in a life and death struggle with dangerous, and evil Mocata (played with perfect creepiness by Charles Gray.) Renamed from "The Devil Rides Out" because they thought Americans would confuse it with a Western. I couldn't make this stuff up. Trailer.

Monday, July 26, 2010

"The Creeping Flesh" Original One Sheet. "A terrifying journey through the nightmare worlds of evil, insanity and terrible revenge." Okay, so it's not a very catchy tagline. This is a pretty good flick that reunites 2 of my favorite actors: Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Peter Cushing's character returns from an expedition to New Guinea. He has in his possession the skeletal remains of what he believes to be a creature of supreme evil. When he discovers that water causes flesh to regenerate on the bones, he uses the tissue to create a serum that he hopes will prevent his daughter from succumbing to the same madness that consumed his late wife. Unfortunately, his selfish brother, played by Christopher Lee, puts too much water on it and the monster begins to come to life. It's from 1973. Here's the trailer.