I’m not sure the Hot Dog editors understood the punk ethos (bright blue eyeshadow and silver glitter?) all that well, nor does Genevieve look anything like Cyndi Lauper, but the innocent failure sure makes a fun article.
(Images via AnnainCA/Flickr)
Archive Page 19
Hot Dog Magazine, 1985: ‘Have a Rockin’ Halloween!’
Published October 28, 2015 '80s Decor/Design/Fashion , Halloween , Halloween Costumes , Magazines/Zines Leave a CommentBoard Games: Bats in Your Belfry (Mattel, 1964)
Published October 27, 2015 Board Games/Tabletop Games 2 Comments
More beautiful toy art.
(Images via From Zombos’ Closet, Church of Halloween, and Crypt of Wrestling)
TV Guide Ads for TV Movies (1978): Special Halloween Edition
Published October 27, 2015 '70s Movies/TV , '70s Music , Horror Movies/TV , TV Guide 5 Comments
Highlights from the week of October 28 through November 3, 1978, via Garage Sale Finds, where you can see a lot more.
Kiss Meets the Phantom is actually Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park, and it’s one of the more notorious TV productions of the 1970s. Produced by Hanna-Barbera, it plays like a demented, less well-acted, live action Scooby-Doo episode with a hard rocking soundtrack, and for all those reasons is a must watch. A slightly different, slightly more coherent version titled Attack of the Phantoms was released in theaters outside the U.S. in 1979, and you can watch it (as of now) here. Incidentally, if there’s a place to put your “Get Your High School Diploma” ad, it’s underneath a Kiss promo.
I talk about Devil Dog: Hound of Hell here. Stranger in Our House is a fun chiller directed by Wes Craven about a satanic, teenage witch who infiltrates and terrorizes a suburban family, with Linda Blair playing the good girl. (1981’s Midnight Offerings was another TV movie with the same theme). Both films aired on Halloween night.
Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Alien Glow Putty (Larami, 1979)
Published October 26, 2015 Fantasy Art , Larami Toys , Universal Monsters 3 Comments
Blessings upon you, Larami, for these and your many other contributions to my wasted and wonderful childhood.
(Images via Horrorpedia and eBay)
Universal Monsters Iron-On Transfers (Roach Studios, 1980)
Published October 26, 2015 '70s Decor/Design/Fashion , Iron-on Transfers , Roach Studios , Universal Monsters Leave a Comment
There are more, thankfully, and I’ll do a follow-up post when I have better images. The transfers were probably meant to coincide with the 1980 release of Remco’s massive Universal Monster toy line.
Lots more iron-ons and Roach Studios here.
Sound Effects: Death & Horror (BBC Records & Tapes, 1977)
Published October 23, 2015 Music from Outer Space , Records (LPs) and Cassettes , Sound Effects 5 Comments
There were three horror-themed LPs in the BBC’s long-running sound effects series: Sound Effects: Death & Horror (Vol. 13, 1977), More Death and Horror (Vol. 21, 1978), and Even More Death and Horror (Vol. 27, 1982). Some editions of the second title (Vol. 21) were released “in blood red vinyl,” as advertised on the LP cover. These are not, you may have guessed, your standard “chilling sounds,” including tracks such as “Arm Chopped Off,” “Red Hot Poker Into Eye,” “Death By Garrotting,” “Body Put Into the Acid Bath,” and “Self Immolation,” to name just a few. The gruesome cover art on the first two records is by Andrew Prewitt, who talks about the project at Horrorpedia, where you’ll find a good write-up. Many of the sound effects on the albums are available on iTunes.
There are lots of other interesting volumes in the BBC sound effects series, including Disasters (Vol. 16, 1977)—“Erupting Volcano With Lava Whooses,” “Radioactive Burn,” “Reprisal Air Strike,” etc.—and the extraordinary Out of This World (1976), a compendium of sci-fi, fantasy, and “supernatural” atmospherics. Hewitt did the covers (below) for those volumes as well.
John Holmes Cover Art for T.L. Sherred’s First Person, Peculiar (Ballantine, 1972)
Published October 23, 2015 Books , Cover Art , John Holmes Leave a Comment
Harry Borgman Cover Art for The Dracula Horror Series (Pinnacle, 1973)
Published October 22, 2015 Books , Cover Art , Occult/Supernatural 2 Comments
Borgman illustrated the first four volumes of the nine-volume series, which you can read about at Too Much Horror Fiction and Monster Memories. The Groovy Age of Horror reviews all of the books here. Images are via Monster Memories.
Borgman talks about the covers here.
Great Tales of Horror and Suspense (Galahad Books, 1974)
Published October 22, 2015 Books , Cover Art , Occult/Supernatural 3 Comments
Great Tales of Horror and Suspense would be a superfluous anthology of famous horror stories if not for the extraordinary illustrations of Norman Nodel and Harry Borgman. Nodel painted the cover and did interior art for the first half of the book, while Borgman handled the exquisite line art for the Dracula section. See more of Borgman’s Dracula at And Everything Else Too. The black and white pages are from Borgman’s blog, where he talks about the assignment:
The art was rendered with a Crowquill pen with brush accents using India ink. It was a fun assignment and a real break from some of the Detroit automotive work that I was involved with at the time. Randy Mulvey, my New York [agent] during that period, landed this assignment for me as well as a series of Dracula paperback covers.
He goes into more detail about the gig in another post. I’ll post his Dracula covers later.
ThrillerVideo Ads Featuring Elvira (1985 – 1989)
Published October 21, 2015 Elvira , Home Video , Horror Movies/TV , Mistress of the Dark Leave a Comment
ThrillerVideo was a home video series released between 1985 and 1989. Most of the schlocky horror flicks were narrated by Elvira, but she refused to host a number of the more graphic titles, which were released in a less sexy format. You can see the full catalog here.
(Images via Monster Memories and Zombie Logic)
2 Warps to Neptune 