BLACULA PRESSBOOKS

For horror movies, the early 1970s was a melting pot for all kinds of new films which strayed further away from the traditional. Exploitation films spun off several sub-genres, including one called Blaxsploitation. American International Pictiures (AIP) made a black vampire film called BLACULA (1972) starring William Marshall as the titular character, and a sequel followed a year later, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM! According to VARIETY, a reboot is in the works.

Following is the pressbook for each of these genre-bending films.

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BLOOD AND ROSES LOBBY CARD SET

Starring Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli and Annette Stroyberg, and directed by Roger Vadim, BLOOD AND ROSES was another European art horror film, this time with a touch of Lesbianism and the erotic. It was first released by Paramount in France on 14 September 1960 and was released a year later in the U.S. in 1961.

BEHIND THE SCENES: METROPOLIS' SPECIAL EFFECTS

Among his other titles (AMAZING STORIES was probably his most famous), Hugo "The Father of Science Fiction" Gernsback published a slick magazine, SCIENCE AND INVENTION. The first issue (at that time known as THE ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER) appeared on newsstands in May 1913 and Gernsback published it until he went bankrupt in 1929. Gernsback also published POPULAR MECHANICS and MODERN ELECTRICS/POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.

SCIENCE AND INVENTION was a strange amalgam of scientific fact and fiction, and many stories and articles leaned towards, or were outright speculative in nature. The June, 1927 issue included this article on the making of Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS (UFA, 1927). It shows how many of the visually arresting effects were made using drawings and stills from the movie.

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BONUS! Here are two more interesting features from the same issue: