Zombos' Closet

Around the World Under the Sea Movie Herald

2012-05-29T20:00:00-04:00

What caught my eye here is the illustration and the clever use of the tagline. I also like David McCallum and Lloyd Bridges. Keenan Wynn's kind of fun to watch, too. And how can you pass up Marshall Thompson (It! The Terror from Beyond Space)? I briefly met David McCallum in the 1980s, when I was shlubbing the shelves at B. Dalton's Software Etc. store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan. He was close to my height (okay, yes, short!), so we could see eye to eye. I liked that. I forget what computer program he was looking for, though.

Chernobyl Diaries (2012) Missing a Few Entries

2012-05-29T15:20:52-04:00

The cleverest moments in Chernobyl Diaries come early: scenes of young American tourists enjoying the sites of London, France, and eventually Russia as seen through the digital camera recording them. But director Bradley Parker and scripter Oren Peli are just teasing us. This isn't, thankfully, a through-the-lens or found footage movie, although more professionally handled handheld cameras do follow the six Americans as they head to Prypiat, the ghost city near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory & Corridors of Blood Double Bill Pressbook (Part 2)

2012-05-25T12:30:00-04:00

Here are the press luncheon invitation, action accessories, catchlines, and more promotional gimmickry, for this very appetizing double bill pressbook. And to think, today we only have the Internet to do all this. Bummer.

Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory & Corridors of Blood Double Bill Pressbook (Part 1)

2012-05-25T12:00:00-04:00

This pressbook is in my top ten favorites. Black and white, 12 inch x 17 inch format, perfect tagline, werewolf-making kit theater giveaway, suitably atmospheric press luncheon, and excellent publicity articles--what more of Nervo-Rama can you ask for? (Click to enlarge pages. And don't try this on your mobile phone; these are BIG pages.)

Dracula Game By Waddingtons

2012-05-22T11:31:44-04:00

I found this Waddingtons' Dracula Game on eBay some years ago. I was mesmerized by the box illustration; a little Spanish influence, don't you think? The colorful game pieces are also neato, especially the green vampire bat mask.

LOTT-D Joins the Avengers

2012-05-17T20:00:00-04:00

Move over Thor and Captain America, the League of Tana Tea Drinkers, those super bloggers of horror, want a seat at the table.