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Rare She-Creature It Conquered the World Horror Sci-Fi Blaisdell Monster AIP PB
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Rare She-Creature It Conquered the World Horror Sci-Fi Blaisdell Monster AIP PBRare She-Creature and It Conquered the World Double-Feature Horror Sci-Fi Paul Blaisdell Monster-Suit Maker Hypnosis Beverly Garland Marla English Lee Van Cleef Peter Graves Chester Morris Tom Conway Cathy Downs El Bredel Sally Fraser Roger Corman Dick Miller Lance Fuller Ron Randell Paul Dubov Bill Hudson A.I.P. British Science-Horror Shockers PressBook
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THIS IS A NO RESERVE AUCTION!
SUPER VINTAGE ORIGINAL SPOOK SHOW SCI-FI AIP HORROR A.I.P BRITISH 6-PAGER MOVIE THEATRE PRESS BOOK .VERY UNIQUE!
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Rare She-Creature and It Conquered the World Double-Feature Horror Sci-Fi Paul Blaisdell Monster-Suit Maker Hypnosis Beverly Garland Marla English A.I.P. British Science-Horror Shockers PressBook
RARE VIRTUALLY UNUSED...1956 BY WAY OF A.I.P. BY WAY OF ANGLO AMALGAMATED FILM DISTRIBUTORS LIMITED HAMMER HOUSE 113/117, WARDOUR STREET,LONDON, W.1. 6-PAGER BRITISH PRESSBOOK IS GORGEOUS WITH NO CUTS NO MISSING PAPER ..NO FOLDS..JUST A LITTLE GRUMBLING ROUND THE CORNER POINTS MEASURING 15 1/2 X 12 WHEN CLOSED AND 31 X 12 WHEN OPENED POSTER IN VERY VERY NICE CONDITION~ SUPER-RICH COLORS~NO REAL PROBLEMS~REALLY WELL KEPT~JUST LAYED IT OUT AND I DID NOT FLATTEN IT OUT~NATURAL WHITE HIGH GRADE TIMBER GLOSSY PAPER STOCK ... ...GORGEOUS! SEE ALL PICS FOR CONDITION AND PLEASE ASK ALL QUESTIONS
VERY VERY FINE! RARELY SEEN THIS SIZE ON THIS TITLE!
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FROM THE VERY DEPTHS OF TIME CAME...
THE SHE-CREATURE
and
EVERY MAN ITS PRISONER....EVERY WOMAN ITS SLAVE!
IT CONQUERED THE WORLD
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RARE VIRTUALLY UNUSED...1956 BY WAY OF A.I.P. 6-PAGER PRESSBOOK POSTER IN VERY VERY NICE CONDITION~ SUPER-RICH COLORS~NO REAL PROBLEMS~REALLY WELL KEPT~JUST LAYED IT OUT AND I DID NOT FLATTEN IT OUT~NATURAL WHITE HIGH GRADE TIMBER GLOSSY PAPER STOCK ...GORGEOUS! SEE ALL PICS FOR CONDITION AND PLEASE ASK ALL QUESTIONS
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RARE BRITISH PRESS BOOK POSTER IN VERY VERY VERY UNUSED NICE CONDITION~ SUPER-RICH COLORS~NO REAL PROBLEMS~REALLY WELL KEPT~APPEARS UNUSED......SEE ALL PICS
LOOKS EVEN MORE INCREDIBLE IN A FRAME!..BUT CAN DISPLAY AS IS!
SPOOKY MONSTROUS IMAGES
THE SHE-CREATURE
Using hypnosis, Dr. Carlo Lombardi claims that he can have his patients regress and recover memories from their past lives, thereby proving that reincarnation exists. He also claims that the spirit of these past lives can be brought forth to take physical form.. A series of violent murders by a creature that seems to disappear into the sea suggests that Lombardi's claim may be correct. The medical and scientific community believe him to be a complete fraud but one enterprising businessman sees the opportunity to make a small fortune with Lombardi's ability.
It Conquered the World
is an independently made 1956 American science fiction film, produced and directed by Roger Corman, starring Peter Graves, Lee Van Cleef, Beverly Garland and Sally Fraser. The film was distributed by American International Pictures.
It Conquered the World concerns an alien creature from the planet Venus that secretly wants to take control of the Earth. The creature makes radio contact with a disillusioned human scientist, who agrees to help because the scientist believes such an alien intervention will bring peace and save a doomed humanity from itself.
Dr. Tom Anderson (Van Cleef), an embittered scientist, has made contact with a Venusian creature, while using his radio transmitter. The alien's secret motivation is to take complete control of the Earth by enslaving humanity using mind control devices; the alien claims it only wants to bring peace to our troubled world by eliminating all emotions. Anderson agrees to help the creature and even intends to allow it to assimilate his wife (Garland) and friend Dr. Nelson (Graves).
The Venusian then disrupts all electric power on Earth, including motor vehicles, leaving Dr. Nelson to resort to riding a bicycle.
After killing a flying bat-like creature which carries the mind control device, Dr. Nelson returns home to find his wife newly assimilated. She then attempts to force his own assimilation using another bat-creature in her possession, and he ends up being forced to kill her in self-defense. By then, the only people who are still free from the Venusian's influence are Nelson, Anderson, Anderson's wife and a group of army soldiers on station in the nearby woods.
Nelson finally persuades the paranoid Anderson that he has made a horrible mistake in blindly trusting the Venusian's motives, allying himself with a creature bent on world domination. When they discover Tom's wife has taken a rifle to the alien's cave in order to kill it, they hurriedly follow her, but the creature kills Claire Anderson before the two doctors can rescue her. Finally, seeing the loss of everything he holds dear, Dr. Anderson viciously attacks the Venusian by holding a blowtorch to the creature's face; Anderson dies at the alien's hand as it expires.
Peter Graves as Dr. Paul Nelson
Lee Van Cleef as Dr. Tom Anderson
Beverly Garland as Claire Anderson
Sally Fraser as Joan Nelson
Russ Bender as General James Pattick
Taggart Casey as Sheriff N.J. Shallert
Karen Kadler as Dr. Ellen Peters
Dick Miller as First Sergeant
Jonathan Haze as Corporal Manuel Ortiz
Paul Harbor as Dr. Floyd Mason
Charles B. Griffith as Dr. Pete Shelton
Thomas E. Jackson as George Haskell
It Conquered the World was written by Lou Rusoff, but before being completed, Rusoff's brother died and he had to leave for Canada. Roger Corman then called in Charles Griffith to do a final rewrite, two days before filming began; Griffith, however, didn't want his name to be credited on screen.
The design of the creature was Corman's idea, and he thought that coming from a big planet, It would have evolved to deal with heavy gravity and would therefore be low to the ground. Corman later admitted this was a mistake, saying the creature would have been more frightening had It been larger or taller. When Beverly Garland first saw the creature, she commented "That conquered the world?" and kicked It over. Charles Griffith on the creature prop:
I called it Denny Dimwit and somebody else called it an ice-cream cone. I was around when Paul Blaisdell was building it, and he thought the camera would make it look bigger. I have some photographs of it in construction, probably the only ones in existence. I asked for my name not to be on that picture, so I was unbilled. Surprisingly, it got good reviews.
It Conquered the World was released theatrically by American International Pictures in July 1956 on a double bill with The She Creature.
During the 1960s, the film was syndicated to television by American International Television. VHS versions appeared in the 1990s on the US home video market (RCA Columbia Home Video) but these are no longer in distribution, nor is the film available on DVD or Blu-ray in the US or in the UK.
Before its theatrical release in England, British censors expressed concern about the scene near the end where the creature is destroyed by a blowtorch, on the grounds that it depicted cruelty to animals. AIP successfully argued an enemy alien from outer space was not an animal
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THIS IS AN ARTICLE I WROTE FOR "SCARY MONSTERS" MAGAZINE BOUT GHOSTMASTER JACK BAKER...DR. SILKINI!
Direct From Hollywood!"
ASYLUM OF HORRORS!
A unique brand of entertainment in American Movie House history was known as the Midnight Ghost Show. From its rise in the late 1920's to its eventual demise in the late 60's, the Spook Show captured imaginations and thrilled audiences in movie houses and drive-ins around the country.
Midnight Ghost Shows or Spook Shows, later called Midnight Horror Shows, were orchestrated by a magician or "Spook Master," and occurred live in the theatre before, between and after feature horror films. Spook Show operators would take their shows on the road to small theaters across the country. Thousands of dollars could easily be made with a good routine and the willingness to live a somewhat transient existence. Theater operators made easy money booking these shows, with little out of pocket expense. Because the shows typically began at midnight, when the theater would otherwise be closed, the theater owners risked nothing by booking them and were all but guaranteed a profit.
Elaborate advertising and posters were provided way in advance by the Spook Show operators, who mailed them to the theater with instructions about how to build up interest and suspense in their patrons. Intriguing posters often bearing shocking claims were placed in the movie house lobbies weeks before the show rolled into town for its one- night- stand.
Trailers for these events were shown with the feature films in the weeks leading up to the Spook Show, generating intense interest and advance tickets sales. Gimmicks such as give-aways and free passes were employed to great success, as was radio advertising. Advertising included such blurbs as, "SO SCARY WE DARE YOU TO SIT THROUGH IT ALL! IF YOU DO---YOU WIN FREE 2 FOR 1 PASSES TO A NEAR FUTURE MOVIE!" Another promised, "MONSTERS AND WEIRD BEAUTIES." Or from the Ahmen Ra and His Weird Tomb of Terrors featuring the Mummy in Person, "MONSTERS GRAB GIRLS FROM THE AUDIENCE!"
The Spook Show phenomena began in the lavish theaters of the 1920's where they were billed predominantly as midnight Magic Shows complete with magicians, seances, floating phantoms, illuminated spirits and often comedy as well. One of the unique aspects of these shows was the "blackout" where at the end of the show the theater lights would be turned off and glow-in-the-dark ghosts would appear to materialize overhead and on the stage, thrilling and terrifying audiences. Everything and anything could happen. Spiders would fly from the balcony, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley might materialize, if you were brave enough to sit through the whole show you might win a "dead body." Then the feature film, generally a horror film, would be shown.
Some would consider one man to be the king of the Spook Show Circuit- Jack Baker.
John Kessler, later known as Jack Baker, was born in Detroit Michigan in 1914. He started his career in show business as a teenager, doing magic. He later went on to sell trade magazines and in his travels he was invited to a Midnight Ghost Show. When the mentalist, Mel-Roy didn't show, Jack was tapped to do his magic act for the expectant audience. He was hooked.
In time young Kessler joined up with Wyman Baker. Adopted by Baker's parents, (thus the change from Kessler to Baker) the two "brothers" teamed up to create "Dr. Silkini's Spiritualistic Séance and Ghost Show in 1938: what would become the long-standing, "Asylum of Horrors."
The advertising for the "Asylum of Horrors" promised Monsters and Fright but leaned towards a "Hellsapoppin' type show, replete with laughs as well as shrieks. Typical Baker poster advertisement 'ballyhoo' for the Asylum of Horrors Show consisted of blurbs such as: "Eerie! See it Happen-right before your startled eyes- IN PERSON!…And on a rampage. DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD…THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER."
The show was a big hit. In fact it broke box office records. Over the years, real movie actors from Universal Films such as Glenn Strange, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr., made guest appearances in Jack's show. Universal even gave Baker special permission to use their Frankenstein character in the show because they felt that it contributed to the popularity of their monster. At one point there were 7 "units" like franchises, doing the show around the country. For many years Asylum of Horrors was the most successful and lucrative Spook Show on the circuit and Jack Baker became known as the King of the Spook Shows.
The decline of Spook Shows had many causes; greed for profit, jaded audiences, television and cinemascope, (resulting in the removal of stages from movie theaters.) But perhaps there was more. In the advent of Abbott and Costello meeting all the monsters, the Addams Family and The Munsters, there was a saturation of comedy into horror that spelled doom for the whole shebang. Or perhaps too, the world was growing up, becoming more cynical, unwilling to suspend their disbelief even for a few short hours, when the Magic could happen.
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