Bram Stoker's Dracula - Nov 20, 1992

Check out AWESOME-tober-fest at my other blog for a Halloween celebration. This year I'm reviewing all things Dracula!

Here's an ad for Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel. Gary Oldman starred as Vlad Dracula.  It's from Nov 1992.

See the trailer:

Dracula - Dec 22, 1952

This is a newspaper ad for a 1952 stage production of Dracula.  This particular stage production was the same adaptation of Stoker's novel that Bela Lugosi was starring in around 1927 before he was cast as Dracula for the 1931 movie.

This is an ad for a double featuring of Universal's Frankenstein and Dracula. The ad is from 1956. I would have loved to have seen this double feature.

Check out AWESOME-tober-fest at my other blog for a Halloween celebration. This year I'm reviewing all things Dracula!

Double Feature Friday: The Fly and Return of the Fly

It's the Vincentennial.  Vincent Price would have been 100 years old this year.

Here is an ad for one of the movies that made Price famous, The Fly from 1958.

Here's an ad for the sequel to The Fly, Return of the Fly, from 1959.

Watch the trailer for The Fly (narrated by Vincent Price)


Watch the trailer for Return of the Fly

Deepstar Six - 1989

This week's theme continues last week's, underwater movies.

Here's an ad for Deepstar Six. I've always loved the look of this movie's poster, but I've never seen the actual movie. The synopsis is very similar to The Abyss; a group of underwater explorers in a nuclear sub disturb an alien presence on the bottom of the ocean. It stars Greg Evigan, Nia Peeples and Miguel Ferrer.

See other underwater movies here.

See the trailer:

The Abyss - Aug 11, 1989

Continuing my look at underwater movies.

Here's an ad for James Cameron's The Abyss starring Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio and Michael Biehn.  It's about a group of deep sea divers and oil drillers that discover they aren't the only thing inhabiting the bottom of the ocean.  The effects in this movie, particularly the water tentacle, were done by ILM and were what convinced George Lucas that the tech was there to start development of the Star Wars prequels.

See more underwater movies here.

See the Trailer:

Leviathan - Mar 17, 1989

I'm going to continue my theme from last week of underwater movies.

Here's an ad for 1989's Leviathan.  The story involves underwater divers who discover a wrecked Soviet ship and bring back some cargo to their base on the ocean floor. One by one, the diving team is hunted and killed by something they brought back.

The movie starred Peter Weller, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Ernie Hudson and Hector Elizondo.

See more underwater movies here.

See the trailer:

April Fool's Day - Mar 28, 1986

Happy April Fool's Day! Here's an ad for the 1986 horror movie, April Fool's Day. It stars Deborah Foreman as Muffy St John who invites 8 people to her island mansion to spend the night. At dinner, the attendees discover each other's secrets and suddenly they start dying off one by one.  It's a cross between Clue and Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.

This movie is pretty good. I enjoyed it when it was released on video. I even had the poster on my wall growing up. The star, the adorable Deborah Foreman, has been in a ton of stuff including Valley Girl, Real Genius, Family Ties, My Chauffeur and TJ Hooker. Also in this movie was Griffin O'Neal (The Wraith) and Thomas F Wilson (Biff from Back to the Future).

See the trailer:

Soylent Green - May 11, 1973

Another Heston movie that was released on Blu-Ray this week.  Post apocalyptic tale of an Earth in turmoil in 2022.  All natural food sources are extinct.  People must live on water rations and a mysterious food called soylent.  A detective (Heston) investigates the murder of the President of the company that makes soylent and discovers the food's terrifying secret.


See the trailer:

A Nightmare on Elm Street - June 1985

Finishing my look at famous serial killer movies this week.

Here's an ad for the VHS release of the original Nightmare on Elm Street in Summer 1985.

Other famous serial killer movies:
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Psycho (1960)
- Halloween (1979)

Watch the Nightmare on Elm Street trailer:

Friday the 13th - May 9, 1980

I'm looking at famous serial killer movies this week as I celebrate the 20th anniversary of Silence of the Lambs.

Here is an ad for the first Friday the 13th. Jason Vorhees debuted as a child in this movie.  However, the killer as we know him later didn't actually come about until Part 2 (sack over head Jason) or Part 3 (hockey mask Jason).

Other serial killer movies:
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Psycho (1960)
- Halloween (1979)

Watch the original Friday the 13th trailer:

Halloween - Oct 25, 1979

This week is the 20th anniversary of Silence of the Lambs so I'm looking at ads for other famous serial killers.

Here is an ad for Halloween from October 1979. Halloween debuted the serial killer Michael Myers.

Other serial killer movies:
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Psycho (1960)

Watch the Halloween trailer:

Psycho - Aug 25, 1960

This week is Silence of the Lambs' 20th anniversary.  To celebrate I'm looking at ads for classic serial killer movies.

Here's an ad for Hitchcock's 1960 masterpiece, Psycho, which featured the debut of serial killer Norman Bates.

Other serial killer movies
- Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Here's the Psycho trailer:

Silence of the Lambs - Feb 1, 1991

This week is the 20th anniversary of Silence of the Lambs. To celebrate Lambs' 20th anniversary I'll be looking at classic movie serial killers this week. Come back to see ads for more famous murders. All this week.

Silence opened on Feb 14, 1991. Yes, it opened on Valentine's Day. Today's ad is for a sneak preview of Silence of the Lambs about 2 weeks before it opened.  Come back tomorrow for another classic serial killer movie ad.

Here's the trailer: