Welcome back to the second installment of classic old horror film posters and theatrical trailers. If you missed part one of this B-Movie horror train, CLICK HERE or forever hold your peace. I’ve got some right doozies for you today. Try not to get too scared please.
The poster above is from The Black Sleep, AKA Dr Cadman’s Secret, filmed in 1956, it features a crazed neurosurgeon. He kidnaps unsuspecting humans and tries to find the solution for his wife’s brain tumour within his victim’s living brains. As ever, completely terrifying idea, but the poster is the best part.
Here’s the trailer:
Having had a pretty thorough search through old horror film posters, I think the poster for The Brain Eaters from 1958 is my favourite of the bunch. The Brain Eaters, a lovely tale of alien parasites, was filmed in just six days. Doesn’t show. Apparently these alien beasts are “twisting the emotions of women…… distorting our men”. Woah.
Pillow of Death from 1945 is a tale of murder and intrigue invloving a falsely accused husband who believes he is receiving messages from the wife he is blamed for murdering with a pillow. I couldn’t find any clips I’m afraid. It’s sounds pretty rubbish anyway so don’t worry.
Boris Karloff “the Uncanny” in The Mummy, pictured below, is another of those films that encompassed a genre that’s kept reeling well into the modern day.
Karloff made dozens of silent films but is best known for his horror work that included The Mummy and Frankenstein, apparently the shoes he had to wear as Frankenstein weighed 5kg each (that’s the weight of 10 cans of lager per foot).
Here’s the trailer for The Mummy:
More horror on the next page folks…
The She Beast, 1966, follows the fate of a woman that crashes into a river and is possessed by the spirit of an 18th Century witch that had been drowned in that very spot. The film stars Barbara Steele and was also known as The Revenge Of The Blood Beast which I prefer tbh.
Here’s Babs in The Mask, I love this pic:
Here’s your trailer….. oooOOOoOooOOOo….
The Monster That Challenged The World, 1957, involves a giant prehistoric mollusc that is freed from his stony tomb by an earth quake. I reckon this is my favourite baddy of the bunch.
“A new kind of terror to numb the nerves”
Here’s your trailer:
If you’ve still got an ounce of braveness left, I will leave you with a couple of old Japanese posters which are cool in their own special ways. Love ’em…
OLD HORROR FILM POSTERS PART 1
THE MONTAUK MONSTER OF PLUM ISLAND
A PHOTO COLLECTION OF ALBINO ANIMALS
