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comes a classy and trashy collection of popular culture artifacts for those who love the terrors and treats in movies, books, and Halloween. About Me Cheeky Magazine Morgue Prof. Kinema Movie Pressbooks Mexican Lobbies Halloween Paper Bad Movies Graphic Books Fearful Fiction My Book My Interviews Collectors Weekly Interview Dark Fiction Roundtable Final Girl Chat KIndertrauma Interview The Commentator Interview Dark Phantom Interview Strange Kids Club Interview Movie Reviews Mexican Lobby Cards Copyright Notice by John Michael Cozzoli is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License . Based on a work at http://www.zomboscloset.com . Copyright© 2006-2019 ’s fictional characters and personal blog posts are created and copyrighted by JM Cozzoli. Additional content is copyrighted by the respective contributors and owners of that content. is a non-commercial site for the enjoyment of fans of the fantastique, the horrifying, the trashy, and the sublime. Zombos’ Closet...a vast trove of endearingly cheap thrills, including movie and book reviews, and scans of his collections of cinema pressbooks, goofy paper-cutout Halloween decorations, and his amazing collection of Mexican lobby cards from B-grade films. If you have time to descend into a serious rabbit-hole of marvelous trash-culture nostalgia, visit that site just as soon as you possibly can. (DangerousMinds.net) about this blog ... Wednesday, April 29, 2015 in Reflections | Permalink | Comments (0) Thursday, October 31, 2019 The Monster Times Issue 33, 1974 Issue 33 of The Monster Times really does go ape. The Planet of the Apes movie franchise gets most of the bananasI mean coveragein this issue, but other apes in movies aren’t left with just the peel. I had hit a local theater with a bag of McDonald’s, back in Brooklyn, circa 1970s, to catch a Planet of the Apes marathon. Ah, memories. I’d do it again faster than someone hitting the floor after slipping on a banana peel. To read issues 1 through 48 of The Monster Times, including two specials and the merchandise catalog, slip on over to the magazine morgue . Comic book reader version: Download The Monster Times Issue 33 Continue reading "The Monster Times Issue 33, 1974" » Thursday, October 31, 2019 in Magazine Morgue | Permalink | Comments (0) Tuesday, October 29, 2019 Untamed Mistress (1956) Mexican Lobby Card Two men go into the jungle to search for a woman kidnapped by murderous apes. Much monkey-business ensues. Sure, complain about today’s movies, I dare you. Directed by Ron Ormond. He made Christian movies, too. He also directed Mesa of Lost Women . I’ll leave the innuendo up to you. Tuesday, October 29, 2019 in Azteca/Mexican Lobby Cards | Permalink | Comments (0) Wednesday, October 23, 2019 Jungle Man-Eaters (1954) Pressbook The good old days, when the only thing you had to worry about in the jungle was what was going to eat you. I’m nonplussed about that tagline: "Johnny Against the Cannibals! as the flames lick her lovely legs." Did Johnny have lovely legs? The sentence logic here is atrocious. So is Johnny Weissmuller’s acting throughout the Jungle Jim series, in spite of his lovely legs. But there is a strange fascination for me with these jungle adventures, I admit. Comic book reader version: Download Jungle Man-Eaters Pressbook Continue reading "Jungle Man-Eaters (1954) Pressbook" » Wednesday, October 23, 2019 in Pressbooks (Non-Horror) | Permalink | Comments (0) Tuesday, October 22, 2019 Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) Pressbook Black Camel (with Bela Lugosi) and Charlie Chan at the Opera (with Boris Karloff), are two of the best Chan movies. Currently, you can see both on YouTube. I strongly recommend them. I realize for many that Charlie Chan reflects a less politically correct age, but I would only recommend you re-evaluate this very large body of work, especially with Warner Oland, arguably the best Charlie Chan (even though he was Swedish). An essential reference work to aid you is Charlie Chan at the Movies:History, Filmography, and Criticism by Ken Hanke. Comic book reader version: Download Charlie Chan at the Opera See more high-brow pressbooks . Continue reading "Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936) Pressbook" » Tuesday, October 22, 2019 in Pressbooks (Non-Horror) | Permalink | Comments (0) Monday, October 21, 2019 The Monster Times Issue 32, April 1974 The latest issue of Little Shoppe of Horrors , issue 43, has a fascinating oral history of The Monster Times , plus a near-complete listing of who did what for each TMT issue. It also has extensive histories on Children of the Damned and The Blood Beast Terror , so don’t miss it. And speaking of TMT, issue 32 shouldn’t be missed either. With Marvel’s Mightiest Monsters , A Profile of the Late Bruce Lee , Questor (some of you may recall when we kind of laughed at robots and thought no way, right?), and Attack of the Mexican Monsters (scoop of some brains with Brainiac and wrestle some mummies works for me). Comic book reader version: Download The Monster Times Issue 32 See more in the magazine morgue . Continue reading "The Monster Times Issue 32, April 1974" » Monday, October 21, 2019 | Permalink | Comments (0) Friday, October 18, 2019 Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Pressbook This very impressive pressbook, at 36 pages for Five Graves to Cairo , plays up Erich von Stroheim, an impressive director and Hollywood presence himself. Comic book reader version: Download Five Graves to Cairo Pressbook Continue reading "Five Graves to Cairo (1943) Pressbook" » Friday, October 18, 2019 in Pressbooks (Non-Horror) | Permalink | Comments (0) Thursday, October 17, 2019 Forbidden Planet (1956) Pressbook With a completely electronic soundtrack and Robby the Robot, nicely centered around a creepy ID monster, Forbidden Planet is a great movie. One can only wonder at how theater marquees and lobbies, that employed the promotional items shown in this 20-page pressbook (like the standee and the fluorescent valance), must have looked to genre fans when the movie aired on the big screen. Oh, and there was Anne Francis to oggle at too, which the crew of the C-57D starship easily do for a good portion of the movie, in the usual 1950s cinematic mating process. A pulp fantasy come true, to be sure. Robby’s designer, Robert Kinoshita, also created another favorite: B-9 in Lost in Space . Unfortunately, someone actually used the pressbook as intended and cut out an ad mat or two. Luckily, it didn’t affect the readability much. Comic book reader version: Download Forbidden Planet Pressbook More other worldly pressbooks . Continue reading "Forbidden Planet (1956) Pressbook" » Thursday, October 17, 2019 in Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) | Permalink | Comments (0) One Million Years B.C. (1966) Movie Herald Here’s the tabloid newspaper herald for One Million Years B.C. I love the tongue in cheek approach. Raquel Welch’s fur bikini pin-up was quite a seller after this movie came out. This was Hammer Studios first prehistoric movie. I’m not sure why Hollywood had a fascination with prehistoric period dramas back then, but I doubt many in the audiences went to see the dinosaurs. Continue reading "One Million Years B.C. (1966) Movie Herald" » Thursday, October 17, 2019 in Pressbooks (Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy) | Permalink | Comments (0) Enter the Dragon (1973) Movie Herald My favorite movie heralds are the comics-style ones. Here’s the one for Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee. (See Black Belt Jones herald.) I fondly remember catching the early Lee movies in a Chinatown theater in New York City. After hearing all the hype, it was breathtaking to watch him on the big screen. Continue reading "Enter the Dragon (1973) Movie Herald" » Thursday, October 17, 2019 in Pressbooks (Non-Horror) | Permalink | Comments (0) Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Mars Attacks the World and Planet Outlaws Movie Herald Here’s a 1974 double bill herald for a re-release of the Flash...