Monster of the Day

This is a bit racy for the site, but damn, that's a nice poster. And you can't say it isn't a perfect B-movie artifact. Continuing a side theme for his week, it's presumably MUCH better than the movie, given that it's directed by notorious hack Jess Franco. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Again, very nice poster for a very obscure movie. Man, I haven't seen this one in decades. I'll have to look for that.

This poster does it's job. It takes a film that might not interest many and makes you go, "That looks great!" To a deceptive extent, but hey, caveat emptor.

Sweet!

Man, that's a great poster, although I feel it doesn't represent the actual tone of the film very well.

I imagine most of us prefer art posters, but man, that there is one great photo poster.

Speaking of films that look better in the poster, here's the Japanese art for Giant Spider Invasion. (!) I wonder if this is a cinema poster or a home video cover? I think it's funny that it reached Japan in either way, but could it possibly have played in theaters?

I guess I'm not surprised that Japan knows how to sell a giant monster film, but man, this does not reflect what I know about this movie. If this was an accurate poster, I would have been there first day buying my ticket.

We'll see if the niece wants to make it to a third movie (after a dinner break), and if she does, what she makes of this. Frankly, if she bails and I can get her back home in time--it's a bit of a hike--I'll probably instead try to make that evening's showing of Sound!…

The G-Fest film I'm really excited about, of course, is Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster. (Ghidrah, back in my day.) It's hard to explain how incredible Ghidrah was back then, a monster so powerful that it took Toho's Big Three combined to defeat it. Plus the first combined universe mash-up since the Universal monster…