Recreation of a poster for a 1947 appearance by Bela Lugosi at the Vista Theatre in Negaunee, Michigan. The show never happened, unfortunately. Lugosi reportedly cancelled because of illness.
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americana, dracula, edgar allan poe, ghost party, horror
The notorious Chesty Abaddon, host of the travelling Burlesque Diabolique/Satanic Burlesque "spook party", spent much the last century shocking audiences all around the world. Was it cursed? Were the stories about deaths/tragic accidents left in its wake really true, or just urban legends? Abaddon went missing in 1966/67, taking with her any answers she might be able to provide about what happened both on the stage and behind it. This particular advertisement was used during a 1927/28 tour.
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retro, vintage, feminist, satanic, spook show
In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem river, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison: only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don’t come out.
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john carpenter, snake plissken, kurt russell, big trouble in little china, plissken
Here's my restoration/revision of the vintage Grand Guignol poster for "The Woman Who Loved Heads." It was probably about exactly what you think it's about.
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exploitation, france, grotesque, horror, paris
Le Carnaval Des Spectres, a recreation of a vintage Grand Guignol Theater poster. The Grand Guignol operated from 1897 to 1962 in Paris, but was permanently upstaged by the real-life horrors of World War II.
The Monster Rally YOU demanded! The Shock Monster! The Vampire Girl! The Teenage Werewolf! The Man Who Lost His Face! And straight from Hollywood ... the Moon Monster! All together on one stage! Are you brave enough to handle it?
The Golden Girls rule the city with iron fists. Rule #1: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Rule #2: Never cross the syndicate. Rule #3: Sicily always wets its beak.
Vintage spook-show style design for a live appearance by the Amazing Criswell, the stage name of professional psychic Jeron Criswell King. Criswell was a frequent guest of The Tonight Show and is best remembered today for his appearances in Ed Wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space and Night of the Ghouls.
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b movies, cult classic, cult movies, ed wood, plan 9
Your puny existence is of no concern to the universe, but that doesn't mean that your existential crisis has to be boring. Go out in style with this retro-arcade graphic from the maniacs at Unlovely Frankenstein!
In certain circles, the name Philip LeMarchand became known as the "architect of the damned." He was a French architect, artisan and designer who is posthumously credited as possibly one of the most prolific, if undiscovered, mass murderers in the history of the modern world.