London After Midnight (1927) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / P: Tod Browning, Irving Thalberg / D: Tod Browning / W: Tod Browning, Waldemar Young, Joseph Farnham / C: Merritt B. Gerstad / E: Harry Reynolds, Errol Taggart / M: Jack Feinberg, Sam Feinberg / S: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Archive for Psychos / Slashers
Thrills! Chills! Creeps! Suspense! (July, 1928)
Posted in 1920-1929, Movie Ads with tags Conrad Nagel, Henry B. Walthall, Horror, Irving Thalberg, Lon Chaney, London After Midnight, Marceline Day, MGM, Mystery, Percy Williams, Psychos / Slashers, Silent Films, Silents, Tod Browning on May 20, 2018 by WB KelsoStrictly for Adult Eyes and Ears. Don’t Tell Your Friends the Amazing Secret After You See It! (January, 1966)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Anne Bancroft, Cedric Hardwicke, Collector Company, Columbia Pictures, Crime, Drama, Jack Clayton, James Mason, James Woolf, Janine Gray, John Kohn, Jud Kinberg, Maggie Smith, Maurice Dallimore, Mona Washbourne, Peter Finch, Psychos / Slashers, Romulus Films, Samantha Eggar, Terence Stamp, The Collector, The Pumpkin Eater, Thriller, William Wyler on March 30, 2017 by WB Kelso
The Collector (1965) Collector Company :: Columbia Pictures Corporation / P: Jud Kinberg, John Kohn / D: William Wyler / W: John Kohn, Stanley Mann, Terry Southern, John Fowles (novel) / C: Robert Krasker, Robert Surtees / E: David Hawkins, Robert Swink / M: Maurice Jarre / S: Terence Stamp, Samantha Eggar, Mona Washbourne, Maurice Dallimore
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) Romulus Films :: Columbia Pictures Corporation / P: James Woolf / AP: James Ware / D: Jack Clayton / W: Harold Pinter, Penelope Mortimer (novel) / C: Oswald Morris / E: Jim Clark / M: Georges Delerue / S: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch, James Mason, Janine Gray, Cedric Hardwicke, Maggie Smith
Random Drive-In Mash-Up :: October, 1977
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Adults Only, Drive In, Exploitation, Massacre at Central High, Massage Parlor '73, My Pleasure is My Business, Psychos / Slashers, Sexploitation, Xaviera Hollander on August 27, 2014 by WB KelsoDrive-In Mash-Up :: WARNING! Not Recommended for Persons Over 30! No One Admitted While the Coffin is Being Opened! (September, 1973)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Boris Karloff, Drive In, Dusk til Dawn, Exploitation, Hallmark Releasing, Horror, Last House on the Left, Mark of the Devil, Psychos / Slashers, Sean S. Cunningham, The Terror, Thriller, Torture / Gore, Wes Craven, Witchcraft / Hexes on May 1, 2014 by WB KelsoA Terrifying Picture that Assaults the Senses. DO NOT SEE IT ALONE! (July, 1965)
Posted in 1960-1969, Movie Ads with tags Ann Sothern, James Caan, Jeff Corey, Jennifer Billingsley, Juvenile Delinquents, Lady In a Cage, Luther Davis, Melodrama, Olivia de Havilland, Paramount Pictures, Psycho-Biddies, Psychos / Slashers, Thriller, Walter Grauman on April 14, 2014 by WB Kelso
Psycho-Biddies, Hagsploitation, or Grande Dame Guignol — call ’em whatever you like, but after the financial success of the rancorous onscreen/off-screen antics of Crawford and Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane a new Hollywood cottage industry was born, where an aging ingenue is tossed to the wolves in some over-cooked and warped psychological thriller — with plenty of available scenery to sink their teeth into. And as far as they go, this one is actually pretty good with a rock-solid performances by de Havilland as our trapped spinster and Caan, making his big screen debut, as the lead psycho, that all culminates in a truly ghoulish ending (that the ads kinda give away.)
Lady in a Cage (1964) AEC :: Luther Davis Productions :: Paramount Pictures / P: Luther Davis / D: Walter Grauman / W: Luther Davis / C: Lee Garmes / E: Leon Barsha / M: Paul Glass / S: Olivia de Havilland, James Caan, Jeff Corey, Ann Sothern, Jennifer Billingsley
The William Shatner Blogathon :: So Frightening, You’ll Never Recover. (June, 1982)
Posted in 1980-1989, Movie Ads with tags 20th Century Fox, Canuxploitation, CDFC, Cinépix, Lee Grant, Linda Purl, Medical Exploitation, Michael Ironside, Multiplex, Psychos / Slashers, The William Shatner Blogathon, Thriller, Visiting Hours, William Shatner on March 23, 2014 by WB Kelso
Way back in June of 2010, the fine folk behind the magnificent She Blogged by Night held The Shatnerthon!, a tribute to the great William Tiberius Shatner. Scenes from the Morgue heeded the call and participated back then, and now, to celebrate Wild Bill’s birthday this weekend, it was high time we migrated those ads over to the new site plus a few more treats mixed in. Enjoy.
Visiting Hours (1982) Canadian Film Development Corporation (CFDC) :: Filmplan :: Victor Solnicki Productions :: 20th Century Fox / EP: Pierre David, Victor Solnicki / P: Claude Héroux / D: Jean-Claude Lord / W: Brian Taggert / C: René Verzier / E: Jean-Claude Lord, Lise Thouin / M: Jonathan Goldsmith / S: Lee Grant, Linda Purl, Michael Ironside, William Shatner, Lenore Zann, Harvey Atkin
The William Shatner Blogathon :: The Most Shocking Double-Date of Your Life! (September, 1978)
Posted in 1970-1979, Movie Ads with tags Andy Milligan, Blood Thirsty Butchers, Dusk til Dawn, Exploitation, Gimmicks and Promotions, Horror, John Travolta, Psychos / Slashers, Satanism, Shriek of the Mutilated, The Devil's Rain, The William Shatner Blogathon, Virgin Witch, William Shatner, Witchcraft / Hexes on March 23, 2014 by WB Kelso
Back in the 1970s, Joseph Brenner and his Associates had a hand in distributing a lot of exploitation gold with the likes of the Thunderball-Fisted Infra-Man, Argento’s ethereally beautiful Suspiria, and those kooky aqua-nazis in Shock Waves. Here, after the astronomical success of Saturday Night Fever, he bought and repackaged the Ernest Borgnine and William Shatner-fueled The Devil’s Rain, a trippy tale about a coven of the Cloven One’s worshipers, and shamelessly moved Travolta to the top of the bill even though his screen time is about, oh, I don’t know, four or five seconds tops. Beyond that, grab yourself a couple of hot dogs and settle in for a ghoulish quadruple feature that also includes a British import, one of Michael and Roberta Findley’s last co-productions (– as I’m fairly positive that’s supposed to be Shriek of the Mutilated), and topped off with Andy Milligan’s version of Sweeney Todd.
Way back in June of 2010, the fine folk behind the magnificent She Blogged by Night held The Shatnerthon!, a tribute to the great William Tiberius Shatner. Scenes from the Morgue heeded the call and participated back then, and now, to celebrate Wild Bill’s birthday this weekend, it was high time we migrated those ads over to the new site plus a few more treats mixed in. Enjoy.
Stalk ‘n’ SlashCinema :: If Jason Still Haunts You … You’re Not Alone (March, 1985)
Posted in 1980-1989, Movie Ads with tags A Nightmare on Elm Street, Amadeus, Danny Steinmann, Frank Mancuso Jr., Friday the 13th Franchise, Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Georgetown Productions Inc, John Shepherd, Juliette Cummins, Melanie Kinnaman, Melodrama, Multiplex, Mystery, Paramount Pictures, Psychos / Slashers, Return of the Jedi, Richard Young, Shavar Ross, Stalk 'n' SlashCinema, The Karate Kid, The Slugger's Wife, The Sure Thing, Thriller on October 29, 2013 by WB Kelso
Wow. Didn’t realize (or, more than likely, had completely forgotten) that the Friday the 13th franchise was already up to Part V before Freddy Kreuger finally showed up in A Nightmare on Elm Street … Often vilified by franchise fans the Vth and Jason-less entry in the Friday the 13th canon has been gaining some traction in a lot of circles, lately, and is being remembered with more fondness as opposed to ‘Well, that sucked.’ Originally intended to star Corey Feldman, who couldn’t since he was shooting The Goonies, and with every intention to let Jason remain dead and replace him with Tommy Jarvis, director Danny Steinmann was charged to deliver a whodunit with a shock or death every 7 to 8 minutes. Once completed, the film was subsequently hammered by the MPAA, who really started to crack down on these Stalk ‘n’ Slashers after the much publicized outcry over the Christmas ruination of Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984). 16 separate scenes had to be watered down, and it took nine submission attempts before Paramount finally got their R-rating. A direct sequel was planned with Tommy taking up the mask but the fans ultimately rejected this notion and Jason Vorhees was destined to return in Part VI.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985) Georgetown Productions Inc. :: Terror Inc. :: Paramount Pictures / EP: Frank Mancuso Jr., Timothy Silver / D: Danny Steinmann / W: Martin Kitrosser, David Cohen, Danny Steinmann / C: Stephen L. Posey / E: Bruce Green / M: Harry Manfredini / S: John Shepherd, Melanie Kinnaman, Shavar Ross, Richard Young, Juliette Cummins