As we can see from this, AIP’s posters were getting a lot more sophisticated. Several films that year that had monsters of sorts–The Terror, The Haunted Palace–forwent them on the poster art to push more the Vincent Price or Boris Karloff angles. This one also is a bit of a cheat for us, but it’s pretty neat, and Milland’s visage is portrayed in a pretty monstrous fashion. The eye beams can connote either sex or violence, which I assume was the point. Hopefully the audiences found the film good enough–which it is–to get by the fact that it wasn’t quite as exploitative as the poster suggests.
