HORROR MOVIE COMBO POSTERS
The double-feature has long gone the way of the Dodo. Gone are the days of the drive-in two-fer's (including a cartoon or two for the kiddies before they dozed off in the back seat under their bankies) and also gone are the day where, for a buck or two you could go down to the local theater, watch a double-bill and stuff yourself with popcorn and a soda. And sometimes one could spend hours watching special screenings of multiple films for the same price. When it came to horror films, the double-features were often cheapies or exploitationers, and the better productions were many times paired with considerably less than stellar also-rans.
Here's a few samples of the posters from those days gone by.
Growing up in a small town in the late 60's early 70's with a movie theater, meant new release movies arrived almost a year later. These double and triple features are what we feasted on. Biker flicks included.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Los Angeles so we got just about everything that came through, although I didn't really come to appreciate how fortunate that was until some years later.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favourite 'combo' ads coupled I Drink Your Blood with I Eat Your Skin (both 1971). Ghastly gastronomy.
ReplyDeleteThe old-fashioned format of main feature plus support meant we avoided the lazy two-hour movies we get now, but instead often two tightly-edited 80-minute thrill-rides. Better value for money -- and a guaranteed toilet break.
Crazed hippies and zombies -- a delectable combination to satisfy any fan of exploitation films, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd seen most vintage horror movies, but there are a number of titles here I'm unfamiliar with. Finally got around to seeing Half-Human, that's a weird but fascinating movie.
ReplyDeleteIt was. Similarly, I liked another Japanese/American production, The Manster, that came out a few years later.
ReplyDeleteLike the original US release of Gojira, both of those were Japanese movies re-edited by a US studio, with new footage added.
DeleteAnd directed by Ishiro "Gojira" Honda to boot.
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