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Auction History Result 1m221 GIANT SCREAM SHOW Spook Show WC 1967 five all new units of blood-curdling thrills, cool art! Date Sold 11/4/2018 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Unfolded Window Card Spook Show Poster (WC; measures 14" x 22" [36 x 56 cm]) (Learn More) an undated (probably 1967; see below) spook show horror compilation ("5 all 'New' Units of Blood-Curdling Thrills!," "Girls!! Discover if your boyfriend is a man or a mouse!"; "Alien beings. Monsters in person! Escape from the screen and meet you face to face."; "$10,000 free insurance against death by fright!!! Rejected... it's so scary!"; "Hypnoscope. Weird psychedelic orgy! You live the thrills... as if you were there in person!"). Note that this poster only lists two of the five films they were showing, which were La Momia Azteca Contra el Robot Humano (released in the U.S. in 1959 as "Robot Vs. the Aztec Mummy"), the 1957 Rafael Portillo Mexican science fiction (sci-fi) horror adventure starring Ramon Gay, Rosa Arenas, Crox Alvarado, Jorge Mondragon, Luis Aceves Castaneda, and Arturo Martinez AND El Ataud del Vampiro (released in the U.S. as "The Vampire's Coffin"), the 1958 Fernando Mendez Mexican vampire horror thriller sequel starring Abel Salazar, German Robles (in the title role as the Vampire, Count Karol de Lavud), Ariadna Welter, Yerye Beirute (billed as "Yerye Beyrute"), Alicia Montoya, and Carlos Ancira. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("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 specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that the dates on this window card correspond to either 1961, 1967, or 1972. Since we know there was an actual double bill release of The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy and Vampires Coffin in 1964, we think it is more likely this is from 1967, so we are saying it is from that year, but we are not certain. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: good to very good. The window card was never folded. The card has light water staining in the bottom right and in the top play dates area. There is darker water staining in the top left corner. Otherwise, the window card is in pretty nice condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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