Interesting Things

the classic Sherlock Holmes story, 1939

Italian movie poster, English title, The Unholy Wife. Artwork by Giorgio Olivetti, 1957. A trophy wife is driven to murder by boredom.

1939 exploitation movie "Don't send them to juvenile hall, Judge, I'll give them a job at my turpentine factory, and they'll turn out okay." It's not okay.

1963 movie in "Spectarama"! Surprisingly good movie.

1978 poster, with a heroic Sci-fi theme that has nothing to do with the movie. This is the Turkish rip-off version.

1935 Italian adventure movie.

1922 mystery western silent movie. By Norman Studios, a producers of what were known at the time as "race films". Colored cast, for colored audiences, and ignored by film historians.

Creepy and suspenseful 1927 silent film. Vampires,hypnotism, and bizarre deaths.

Teaser poster for the 1960 British movie, Peeping Tom. We do eventually find out the answer.

Swedish release. Title translated as "creeping hand". 1957 little green men / bug eyed monster movie. Also teenagers.

French release, 1956. BW movie with good special effects. The usual paranoid fifties plot, Aliens want to take over the Earth.

Moderately entertaining horror/suspense movie from 1951. Guess whether Dr. Jekyll's son is any better at knowing when to stop.

Italian release, 1947. Artwork by Anselmo Ballester Despite the Oriental design of the poster, the movie is set in New York.

Garish poster from 1966. Italian release of the classic horror with stake and hammer.

Weird and darkly funny Hammer Horror parody from Anglo-Amalgamated, 1966. Another creepy house with a handy boiling vat in the cellar.

1962. When a brilliant surgeon's fiance is mangled in a car crash, he keeps her head alive on a cookie sheet while he goes to the strip clubs looking for a new body for her. Meanwhile, the head and a monster he keeps in his laboratory closet have surprisingly deep philosophical conversations.

Woman in danger! Action, spy stuff, drama from Italy, 1957

Poster advertising a performance by Houdini, 1909

1957 Someone wants to build a resort on an island rumored to be infested with zombies. So, the poster features man eating plants. Italian title translates as "Zombies of Witch Island"

A pervy Psychiatrist does "dream therapy". 1958 Artist unknown.

When you're invited to a mysterious mansion by someone you don't know, it's always a bad idea to go. 1971 sexy horror.

Anti-drug propaganda movie poster, 1936. Illustrator unknown.

1956 crime-horror-science fiction. A psychopathic criminal is accidentally brought back to life, and seeks revenge. (How you *accidentally* do something like that is beyond me.) Unknown illustrator.

A heartwarming tale of a boy and his Robot. Really! 1954, unknown artist.

1942 movie featuring "teen music" Otherwise so forgettable that IMBD has not heard of it. Poster advertisement

Exploitation entertainment poster from 1886. The roots of cheeze go way back. Advertisement for a set of prints, artist unknown.

1951 B movie poster. The standard cautionary tale about radiation producing giant monsters.

1958 B movie poster. Back when some theaters printed their own posters, studios would distribute templates, and theaters would run them off. Cheap one color posters were common in small venues.

b movie poster 1969.

B Movie Sci Fi poster, 1954. Space Aliens infiltrate the US atomic program, with the intent to destroy mankind... not with atomic bombs, but with giant spiders created by atomic bombs.

1957 B movie poster. The traditional mad scientist story, only set in the present, and the monster is a teenager. The results are as bad as usual.

1958 B movie poster. There are a lot of cheezy sci-fi movies that evoke Satan in the title. Satan really isn't involved. This one is a moviefied version of the serial, Zombies of the Stratosphere. Mars wants to blow up the Earth. Yet another movie poster featuring Aliens infatuated with Earth women.

1956 B movie poster. A detective involved in a gangland murder falls for the lounge singer who is the prime suspect. Blackmail and dark dealings in the underworld follow. The only surprise is Lee Van Cleef appearing briefly as a cop.

1963 B movie poster. A Miami suburb, a mysterious Egyptian, human sacrifice, and catering. Featuring a Playboy model.

1961 B movie poster. Murderous mermaid, or merely madwoman?

1971 B movie poster. Man, monster or devil? It's a were-catfish on a rampage of revenge. There's a quote from the Florida Game Commission about atomic bombs.