Over the years it is these words and lines a film company hoped would attract people to go see their movies. Years ago big words were often used in genre films making you think you were seeing a epic. In recent years as the audiences have become more sophisticated less melodramatic ad lines are used. Often more simple ones that are more direct to the topic. As in other threads I have done, these are excerpts from my books. Feel free to add to these as I go along. A few years back it took a lot of old newspapers to get this big collection together. Hope you find it interesting. A piece of genre film history
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN-70-Triple distilled horror. As powerful as a vat of boiling acid.----------------------WHAT HAPPENED TO AUNT ALICE-69-You'll know when the horror starts to grow.-------------------------------------WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH-70-Enter an age of unknown terrors, pagan worship, and virgin sacrifice. From the creators of ONE MILLION YEARS B.C comes their most gigantic spectacle.
I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN-57-Body of a boy, mind of a monster. Soul of an unearthly thing. ---------------I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF-57-Explosive, amazing, terrifying. You won't believe your eyes, The most amazing motion picture of our time.--------------------INVASION OF THE SAUCER MEN-57-Creeping terror from the depths of time and space. See teenagers VS the saucer men. See a disembodied hand that crawls. See the night the world nearly ended.
INVASION OF THE BLOOD FARMERS-72-See what really happens on a terror farm. Don't eat before you see this show and you'll have nothing to lose.---------------------------------------------THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE-71-Science fiction?-no, science fact.--------------------WILLARD-71-When your nightmare ends Willard begins. This is the one movie you should not see alone.
THX 1138-71-Visit the future where love is the ultimate crime.------------------------------THE REINCARNATED-71-Obsessed mysticism. A bewitching dimension of the occult.------------ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES-71-Prepare yourself for a new generation of incredible apes---------------DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS-70-If you think these ladies are something wait until you see mother, she is something else.
THE MUTATIONS-73-It is not nice to fool with mother nature. It can be horrifying---even to them.-------------CHOSEN SURVIVORS-73-Just a few chosen to survive a world holocaust. Not since WILLARD AND BEN has there been anything so terrifying.-------------------------------A REFLECTION OF FEAR-73-A gasp in the dark, a cry in the night.----------------------CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES-72-The revolt of the apes. The most awesome spectacle in the annals of science fiction. The newest and biggest yet.
MARK OF THE DEVIL-68--71-Postively the most horrifying film ever made.Guranteed to upset your stomach. The first film rated V for violence. Due to the horrifying scenes no one will be admitted without a distress bag. Available free at the box office.---------------------------------DR JEKYLL AND SISTER HYDE-72-This film is filled with shock after shock after shock.-WARNING- The sexual transformation of a man into a woman will actually take place before your very eyes.---------------------SHANKS-74-A new concept of the macabre in which the good come out of the grave and the evil are sent to fill the vacancy.
Adam Gaines has a 911T Porsche, good looks, a guaranteed future, and as many girls as he can handle. Adam Gaines has nothing. The world changed for ADAM AT 6 A.M.
The Family That Slays Together Stays Together -- BLOODY MAMA
You Gotta' Believe . . . You Gotta' Have Faith . . . But First You Gotta' Get Rid of the Witnesses! -- BLOODY MAMA
If you miss the first five minutes, you miss one suicide, two executions, one seduction, and the key to the plot. Don't trust anyone in THE KREMLIN LETTER
LITTLE BIG MAN Was Either the Most Neglected Hero In History, Or a Liar of Insane Proportion!
