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Horrors of the Orient, the circa 1960's Frank Chan Spook Show ("First time here... Do not judge by anything see before!"; "All new triple-terror thrills"; "On stage and in the audience in person!!"; "Wierd [sic] Ghastly"; "Dare you see it"; "Notice: we urge you not to panic or bolt from your seat"; "Sensational: 5 big scenes weird-thrilling comedy-laffs gorgeous girls"; "Your [sic] actually surrounded by a horror horde of nightmare creatures"; "ALIVE!!! In person! The Hollywood Wolf Man, The Hunchback Igor, The Living.... ZOMBIE on the loose!"; "Plus GIANT HORROR SHOW On Our Screen!"; "ON THE STAGE! Weird! Ghastly!"; "Dr. Chan Loo Presents... 'The Wolf Man' and 'Igor' In Person Direct from Hollywood"; "Thrilling.. Weird! 5 big scenes gorgeous girls comedy laffs"; "Buy your tickets now. Don't be turned away!"). Note that a collector tells us that this was a live stage show performed by Frank Chan, a Chinese-American magician who performed from the 1940s to the 1960s. The "spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s (with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this movie, please e-mail us and we will post it here.

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Important Added Info: Note that we have a 1950s window card version of this same titled Spook Show offered elsewhere. Based on the printing and design of that card and this card, we feel pretty certain that the other card dates from the 1950s, and that this card dates from the 1960s. This window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded.

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