Friday, November 22, 2024

VINTAGE MONSTERS 2025 CALENDAR


What better way to start off the new year by decorating your Monster Cave with a calendar? Asgard Press is offering a 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar and it looks like one fine product. The large size includes images of posters from the Universal classic monsters, Kaiju and a few less-seen.

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From the publisher:
2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar
$24.95

16-month hanging calendar of frame-ready vintage monster movie poster art + commentary

Revisit the fearful fun of old horror films each month with the Asgard Press 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar, a monstrous collection of faithfully reproduced vintage “creature feature” movie posters from the 1930s – 1970s. From The Curse of Frankenstein to House of Dracula, these classic posters showcase the monster horror entertainment of an earlier cinematic era. Monster movies captivated audiences with their larger-than-life creatures and thrilling tales of horror and suspense. These movies became cultural icons, showcasing groundbreaking special effects and exploring societal fears and anxieties in an entertaining and thrilling way. Each month of the 2025 Vintage Monsters Calendar presents a different movie poster featuring a fearsome and formidable monster foe, accompanied by expanded commentary detailing the story behind each film. With its large vertical format of 11×15 inches, our wire-bound wall calendar opens to an impressive 11×30 inches. The perforated design allows for easy removal of each month’s image, making them a perfect fit for standard 11×14 inch frames. Generously sized grid spaces leave plenty of room to keep track of all your appointments, reminders, and events. Bring some larger-than-life nostalgia to your home or office space while organizing all your important dates at a glance with this monstrously fun calendar.
  • 2025 16-month wall calendar – Jan 2025-April 2026 – Use this calendar into the next year with mini-grid page of the first 4 months of 2026
  • Features faithful reproductions of full color vintage monster movie posters accompanied by extended commentary each month detailing the story behind each poster’s film
  • Large format opens to 11″x30″ with spacious grid pages for at-a-glance organization of appointments and events, and includes major US holidays and moon phases
  • Includes 13 easy-to-remove prints that fit standard 11″x14″ frames for sustainable reuse
  • Decorate affordably with trendy vintage artwork and photos
  • Plenty of room to write in the grid spaces
  • Heavy, archival paper vibrantly showcases each month’s image and prevents bleed-through of pen or marker ink on grid pages
  • Perfect for hanging in home, office or classroom
Sample commentary
The Creature Walks Among Us; 1956; Studio: Universal Pictures; Director: John Sherwood; Cast: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer, Maurice Manson. In the 1940s and 1950s, Universal Pictures was the premier studio for monster movies, creating classic characters that have become pop culture icons. Universal’s creature features included the most recognizable monsters to ever lumber across the silver screen, including Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Wolf Man. In 1954, Universal released a brand-new beast in the film Creature from the Black Lagoon, introducing audiences to the Gill Man, an amphibious humanoid who was living his best life in the Amazon until scientists showed up to disturb his peace. Creature from the Black Lagoon was well-received and spawned two sequels, Revenge of the Creature (1955) and The Creature Walks Among Us (1956), often noted as the last of Universal’s original classic monster series. The Creature Walks Among Us was the only movie of the trilogy not filmed in 3-D due to budget constraints and a waning audience interest in the fad. As the film opens, a new team of scientists is preparing to recapture the Gill Man, who is loose in the waters of the Everglades in Florida. The misunderstood monster only wants to be left alone, but research is not done with him, particularly after he is injured and deranged Dr. Barton engineers the Gill Man’s treatment to make him more human-like. This film differs from its predecessors by presenting the Gill Man in a more sympathetic light, exploring the ethics of experimentation and the human manipulation of nature. The shift in focus divided critics and audiences at the time, some of whom appreciated the slant toward science fiction, while others longed for the old action-packed horror theme. The Gill Man was played by two actors for this film, one for land and the other for water scenes. The water creature was played by Ricou Ren Browning, a water show performer whose turn in Creature from the Black Lagoon led to subsequent underwater acting jobs and an eventual career in directing and scriptwriting. Gill Man on land was played by Don Megowan, whose 6-foot seven-inch height appropriately overshadowed everyone on set.












2 comments:

  1. I've been redesigning my kitchen and this might be the very thing it needs to liven things up.

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