Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension

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First, apologies for yesterday. I couldn't get on the site before work. Second, congratulations to Best Host in the World Sandy Petersen, for another successful Kickstarter with the second edition of Cthulhu Wars. He raised just over a million bucks. Before anyone pops theirs eyes, though, remember that the game itself will be hideously…

Have to admit, I didn't love this, or the two Hensen puppet movies, but hey, different strokes for different folks.

A very good job of representing the monsters accurately while not revealing that they are basically made of garbage bags. Mr. Kallis must have used a model for the woman like the one in the foreground, because otherwise not emphasizing Yvette Vickers more seems inexplicable.

Plus he was wearing a shirt with girlie pictures on it.

I think I actually like Mr. Kallis work better in the widescreen lobby card format.

That guy painted a mean skull, I'll say that.

AIP's Sam Arkoff and James Nicholson famously would think of titles, commission poster art, and then if theater owners booked the movie, they would go ahead and, you know, make it. Given this system, I wonder how many of these films came into existence purely because of the fantastic poster art of Albert Kallis?…

While Italy produced several vampire films in the '60s, this one towers over the rest. Indeed, I think it would have to be on the majority of people's five best vampire movies list. In fact, let's see; Nosferatu, Dracula, Horror of Dracula, Black Sunday, Fright Night.

This is another Italian "ugly vampire" film (although he's not really a vampire, I don't think). Much like our previous subject, this one revolves around a male character who transforms into a hideous monster and kills in order to restore/maintain the beauty of a woman he's obsessed with. This one is just science-fictional rather…