Aww yeah- more awesome movie posters from your SHOCKtober picks! This week covers selected movies from #382-208. Check out Part One and Part Two if you haven't already.
Diabolique, #377
The Bad Seed, #212
Blood and Black Lace, #320
Brides of Dracula, #228
Horror Hotel #336
Burnt Offerings, #248
Isle of the Dead, #281
The House that Screamed, #229
Onibaba, #357
Nosferatu (1979), #323
The Night of the Hunter, #252
Damien: Omen II, #370
Day of the Triffids, #379
Tombs of the Blind Dead, #303
Sisters, #231
Shiver of the Vampires, #347
Picnic at Hanging Rock, #315
- According to my science calculator, a skull with a beard is 77% more manly yet 65% less scary than a skull without.
- Giant looming Bette Davis FTW!
- That Horror Hotel poster looks to me like the work of Jack Davis. Anyone know for sure?
- - obligatory comment about how the old days were better -
As I was slowly (and slyly) scrolling past these movie posters at work, I noticed a phallus in the poster for Les Maitresses de Dracula. Obvious or not? Who's to say.
ReplyDeleteThe Onibabinsky poster is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteMy wife, looking over my shoulder, wants to know what's up with "Mattresses of Dracula."
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the artwork for Horror Hotel is indeed by Jack Davis. I remember a Vault of Horror story he did. It took place from the POV of someone lying in an open casket with grinning mental patients leering over him. It looked a LOT like that poster!
ReplyDeleteThat was the first thing I thought too. "Is that by Jack Davis?!" That poster is cool as hell and I want it!
Ok, in Italian, "I Diabolici" means "the diabolical ones" or "the evil ones."
ReplyDelete6 Femmes pour l'assassin is pretty obviously Six Women for the Killer. (Or …murderer or …assassin or whatever floats your boat.)
In what may be a typical Gallic touch, the English Brides become the French Mistresses of Dracula.
I wanna say that Slovak on the Onibaba, saying “The Japanese film Onibaba: the story of two women who lost a human face. Directed by Kaneto Sindo."
The Night of the Hunter is Death Runs on the River in Italian.
The last two are basically literal translations.
That Triffids poster is all manner of misleading. 1) They do not "TALK" and 2) they don't look like that. At all!
ReplyDeleteAlso, they don't have Janette Scott's name on there, when everybody knows SHE was the one who fought Triffids that spit poison and kill.
On a positive note, that's a ridiculously awesome Polish Picnic at Hanging Rock poster. And my Captcha word is "ailingor," which looks like a sick, mumbling alligator.
Bill, I had the same thought about Mistresses. Those French!
ReplyDeleteAgreed re. the Polish poster for Picnic. Wow.
Last night, by sheer oddball coincidence, I caught Horror Hotel with interstitial commentary provided by The Misfits' "Fiend Club".
ReplyDeleteThey confirm the poster art is by Jack Davis.
Vampires + Alphonse Mucha style artwork is probably one of the best combinations ever. :)
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