Cavalcade of Awesome

For most of it’s life, Fangoria ran full page color ads for movies that are either in the theater or about to be released on videocassette. Last time I did Fangoria back in 2014, I talked about a few of them. So let’s take a look at a few more. It’s easy to pull the “big ones” with Ghostbusters or Gremlins. Let’s try to find some more obscure, culty movies. Shall we?

From Fangoria #50 (1985). I’ve never been a huge Godzilla fan but I’m very aware of this particular movie, even if I’ve never seen it. It was marketed pretty heavily here in the states.  It’s a heavily redited version of the Japanese Toho film Return of Godzilla.  I should sit down and watch some of these sometime.

From Fangoria #52 (1986).  An ad for The Stuff on VHS.  I have seen this movie and it terrified me. The scene where the kid eats shaving cream to avoid having to eat The Stuff sticks with me to this day.

From Fangoria #70 (1988). An ad for the sequel to one of my favorite zombie movies of all time, Return of the Living Dead. And I’ve still not watched any of these Return sequels. I need to get on that.  I love the art for this poster, but it feels like it’s ripping off the Fright Night/Fright Night II posters.

Also from Fangoria #70. It’s not often that Fangoria has two full page movie ads, but issue #70 did. And it’s another sequel.  House II is an interesting animal.  It’s odd, for sure.  But it’s fun.  I like that it sort of becomes a western at the end.  I may remember this movie better than I remember the original House.

From Fangoria #91 (1990). I’ve not watched any of these Basket Case movies. It’s funny, when I graduated college in 1997, a guy I graduated with gave me a VHS with the first three Basket Case movies on it and told me I had to watch them because they were awesome. In fact, he gave it to me the night we graduated.  And I was due to fly out to Dallas, TX in two days for my new job! Yes, I still have that VHS and have still never watched those movies.

From Fangoria #149 (1995). Castle Freak is directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton. Last time I did Fangoria in 2014, I covered this trio in another movie called From Beyond. I had uncovered this little gem back then, but have not watched it. It sounds interesting.

I’ve looked at these full page movie ads a few times before.  As I mentioned earlier I did it back in 2014.  And in 2013.

Also, check out the blog Countdown to Halloween for more Halloween-y, bloggy AWESOMEness.

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