Not of this Earth Attack of the Crab Monsters Terrorama Double-Horror Show Rare

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Not of this Earth Attack of the Crab Monsters Terrorama Double-Horror Spook Show Roger Corman Rare 1957 Pressbook
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Not of this Earth Attack of the Crab Monsters Terrorama Double-Horror Spook Show Roger Corman Rare 1957 Pressbook
GREATEST DOUBLE HORROR SHOW OF ALL TIME!
NOT OF THIS EARTH
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTER
Not of this Earth Attack of the Crab Monsters Terrorama Double-Horror Show Rare
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR FRESHLY SHOT PICS OF THIS VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1957 ALLIED ARTISTS  8-PAGER SHOWMANSHIP CAMPAIGN BOOK...WHEN CLOSED IT MEASURES 18X12 AND WHE OPENED 18X24   ...IT MEASURES APPROX. 22 1/2 X 16 WHEN OPENED AND 11 1/4 X 16 WHEN CLOSED
~VERY NICE INDEED!.PRESSBOOK  WILL BE SENT FLAT...A BEAUTY!   VERY RARE...VERY USED  CONDITION ON THIS ORIGINAL SCI-FI/HORROR SPOOK SHOW GEM~  GRUMBLING ~ TEARS~TAPE~MISSING PAPER~...AND GRUMBLING ..ALL INFO INSIDE...BALLYHOO~SORY~CAST INFO PUBLICITY~ALL POSTER SIZES~DOUBLE-SHOCK-EXPLOITATION~THEATRE FRONT DISPLAY~ECT..THIS STILL LOOKS GREAT IN A FRAME!
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR FRESHLY SHOT PICS OF THESE 2 VINTAGE ORIGINAL  ALLIED ARTISTS
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PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR FRESHLY SHOT PICS OF THESE 2 VINTAGE ORIGINAL 1957 ALLIED ARTISTS  SHOWMANSHIP SPECIAL NEWSPAPER STYLE HUGE HERALD POSTERS ...THEY  MEASURES APPROX. 22 1/2 X 16 WHEN OPENED AND 11 1/4 X 16 WHEN CLOSED
THE WORLDS MOST TATANTIC KILLERS!...PHOTO NEWS FLASH!..CRAB MONSTERS CLAWING,CRUSHINGTERRORS BIGGER THAN A BUILDING!..AND VAMPIRE CREATURES FROM MYSTERY PLANET ATTACK EARTH!...SCIENCE TELLS OF FIENDISH PLAN TO DRAIN WORLD OF HUMAN BLOOD!...HORROR PILED UPON HORROR UNTIL THE SCREEN ROCKS WITH KING-SIZE SHOCKS!
~VERY NICE INDEED!...FRAME NOT INCLUDED~POSTER WILL BE SENT FLAT...A BEAUTY!   VERY RARE
Not of This Earth
1957
science fiction film
written by
Charles B. Griffith
and
Mark Hanna
. The film was produced and directed by
Roger Corman
for his Los Altos Productions and was distributed by
Allied Artists Pictures Corporation
.
The film depicts the dark deeds of an alien intruder who hides under the name of Mr. Johnson. After a nuclear war, the people of his home planet Davanna have developed an incurable blood disease. Johnson's mission to Earth is to test the blood of humans for its usefulness in saving his kind.
After a nuclear war, the people of the planet Davanna developed an incurable blood disease. One of its citizens is sent to Earth to examine the blood of the humans for its usefulness in curing Davanna's dying race. The intruder has adopted the name Mr. Johnson, conspicuous only for his oversensitive ears and his sunglasses, which he wears even in the dark; the sunglasses hide his blank, white-eyed stare which kills his victims by burning through their eyes and into their brains.
Johnson hires nurse Nadine to look after him in his house. Her boss Dr. Rochelle is under Johnson's hypnotic spell after he found out about his patient's peculiar blood cell structure. Johnson's plans are disturbed by the sudden appearance of a woman from Davanna. She asks him for an instant transfusion because her physical condition has decreased rapidly. Johnson breaks into Rochelle's office, but by accident he steals a probe of a rabid dog. The Davanna woman collapses in the street and dies at the hospital. Nadine's friend, police patrol man Sherbourne, tries to question Rochelle, but the doctor is speechless under Johnson's spell. Johnson kills Rochelle for cautionary reasons, but Nadine, the next person in danger, manages to call the police. Johnson flees in his car, followed closely by Sherbourne on his motorcycle. When Sherbourne rings his siren, Johnson, distracted by the sound, drives the car off the road and dies in the crash.
After Johnson's funeral, Sherbourne and Nadine stand by his grave, which bears the inscription "Here lies a Man who was not of this Earth". While Sherbourne expresses mild compassion for Johnson, whose driving force was the rescue of his planet and its populace, Nadine refuses any kind of pity. They leave the gravesite. A mysterious man appears at the site, walking straight towards the viewer. Like Johnson, he wears the same sunglasses and carries the same distinctive case which contains transfusion equipment.
Paul Birch
as Paul Johnson
Beverly Garland
as Nadine Storey
Morgan Jones
as Harry Sherbourne
William Roerick as Dr. F.W. Rochelle
Jonathan Haze
as Jeremy Perrin
Dick Miller
as Joe Piper
Anna Lee Carroll as Davanna Woman
Pat Flynn as Simmons
Writer Charles Griffith says that after he and Corman had collaborated on
Gunslinger
, he suggested they make a science fiction film and Corman agreed
Not of This Earth
was the result.
He also said he originally wrote the part of the vacuum cleaner salesman for himself.
The film was released in the US on the
bottom half
of a
double bill
with Corman's
Attack of the Crab Monsters
.
Some release prints ran 71 minutes; these include duplicate scenes the film's distributor added into the film. Example: a dialogue between Johnson and a representative from Davanna, which appears as a pre-title sequence is reused again some minutes in the film. This release version circulated in syndication on US
TV stations
,
16 mm
copies, and bootleg
DVDs
and
videotapes
.
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THIS IS AN ARTICLE I WROTE FOR "SCARY MONSTERS" MAGAZINE ABOUT GHOSTMASTER JACK BAKER...DR. SILKINI!
Direct From Hollywood!”
ASYLUM OF HORRORS!
A unique brand of entertainment in American Movie House history was known as the Midnight Ghost Show.  From its rise in the late 1920’s to its eventual demise in the late 60’s, the Spook Show captured imaginations and thrilled audiences in movie houses and drive-ins around the country.
Midnight Ghost Shows or Spook Shows, later called Midnight Horror Shows, were orchestrated by a magician or “Spook Master,” and occurred live in the theatre before, between and after feature horror films.  Spook Show operators would take their shows on the road to small theaters across the country. Thousands of dollars could easily be made with a good routine and the willingness to live a somewhat transient existence. Theater operators made easy money booking these shows, with little out of pocket expense. Because the shows typically began at midnight, when the theater would otherwise be closed, the theater owners risked nothing by booking them and were all but guaranteed a profit.
Elaborate advertising and posters were provided way in advance by the Spook Show operators, who mailed them to the theater with instructions about how to build up interest and suspense in their patrons. Intriguing posters often bearing shocking claims were placed in the movie house lobbies weeks before the show rolled into town for its one- night- stand.
Trailers for these events were shown with the feature films in the weeks leading up to the Spook Show, generating intense interest and advance tickets sales. Gimmicks such as give-aways and free passes were employed to great success, as was radio advertising.  Advertising included such blurbs as, “SO SCARY WE DARE YOU TO SIT THROUGH IT ALL!  IF YOU DO---YOU WIN FREE 2 FOR 1 PASSES TO A NEAR FUTURE MOVIE!”  Another promised, “MONSTERS AND WEIRD BEAUTIES.” Or from the Ahmen Ra and His Weird Tomb of Terrors featuring the Mummy in Person, “MONSTERS GRAB GIRLS FROM THE AUDIENCE!”
The Spook Show phenomena began in the lavish theaters of the 1920’s where they were billed predominantly as midnight Magic Shows complete with magicians, seances, floating phantoms, illuminated spirits and often comedy as well. One of the unique aspects of these shows was the “blackout” where at the end of the show the theater lights would be turned off and glow-in-the-dark ghosts would appear to materialize overhead and on the stage, thrilling and terrifying audiences. Everything and anything could happen. Spiders would fly from the balcony, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley might materialize, if you were brave enough to sit through the whole show you might win a “dead body.” Then the feature film, generally a horror film, would be shown.
Some would consider one man to be the king of the Spook Show Circuit- Jack Baker.
John Kessler, later known as Jack Baker, was born in Detroit Michigan in 1914.  He started his career in show business as a teenager, doing magic.  He later went on to sell trade magazines and in his travels he was invited to a Midnight Ghost Show. When the mentalist, Mel-Roy didn’t show, Jack was tapped to do his magic act for the expectant audience.  He was hooked.
In time young Kessler joined up with Wyman Baker. Adopted by Baker’s parents, (thus the change from Kessler to Baker)  the two “brothers” teamed up to create “Dr. Silkini’s Spiritualistic Séance and Ghost Show in 1938: what would become the long-standing,  “Asylum of Horrors.”
The advertising for the “Asylum of Horrors” promised Monsters and Fright but leaned towards a “Hellsapoppin’ type show, replete with laughs as well as shrieks.  Typical Baker poster advertisement ‘ballyhoo’ for the Asylum of Horrors Show consisted of blurbs such as: “Eerie! See it Happen-right before your startled eyes- IN PERSON!…And on a rampage. DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD…THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER.”
The show was a big hit. In fact it broke box office records. Over the years, real movie actors from Universal Films such as Glenn Strange, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr., made guest appearances in Jack’s show.  Universal even gave Baker special permission to use their Frankenstein character in the show because they felt that it contributed to the popularity of their monster. At one point there were 7 “units” like franchises, doing the show around the country. For many years Asylum of Horrors was the most successful and lucrative Spook Show on the circuit and Jack Baker became known as the King of the Spook Shows.
The decline of Spook Shows had many causes; greed for profit, jaded audiences, television and cinemascope, (resulting in the removal of stages from movie theaters.) But perhaps there was more. In the advent of Abbott and Costello meeting all the monsters, the Addams Family and The Munsters, there was a saturation of comedy into horror that spelled doom for the whole shebang.   Or perhaps too, the world was growing up, becoming more cynical, unwilling to suspend their disbelief even for a few short hours, when the Magic could happen.
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