Scenes from the Morgue: come si promuovevano vecchi film pulp

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Scenes from the MorgueBlog dedicato al cinema da una prospettiva piuttosto particolare. È Scenes from the Morgue: Retro-Pulp Movie Ads e così si presunta il “tenutario”, Mr. Beerman:

While trolling around the Morgue of a small Metropolitan Newspaper, our boy efforts to unearth a few hidden artifacts from the days of Matinee Double-Features and Dusk to Dawn Drive-In All Night Trash-O-Ramas on the genre films he loves.

Avviato poche settimane fa, il blog presenta qualche post particolarmente interessante. Come questo, Stirring up some old childhood trauma…:

As a child of the ’70s, and being the little chicken-[expletive deleted] that I was back then, I had the fear of [your deity here] put into me by just the previews and advertisements for certain films that skewed toward spooky. Remember the ads for “Magic”, where Fats the ventriloquist dummy is blathering on and on about how much fun magic can be — when your dead, or the dulcet tones of Percy Rodriques scaring us out of the water not once, but twice, with the trailers for “Jaws” and “Jaws 2”? And then there’s John Frankenheimer’s “Prophecy”, whose combination of radio, TV and print ads (like the one over there on your right) gave me a bad case of the drizzles and plenty of sleepless nights back in the day.