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Lady Death: Dark Alliance - Trading Card #24

Power Struggle
In Hell, every duke wants to be king, and no one is content to stay where they are in Hell's unholy hierarchy. Seance is the living example of the ambition for power in Hell, stopping at nothing to claim all power for himself. 

The Food of the Gods (1976) / At the Earth's Core (1976) - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - September 22, 1976
American International Pictures made another admirable and exploitative money grab by re-releasing its biggest moneymaker of 1976 (The Food of the Gods) on a double-bill with another feature that made them some blessed coin (At the Earth's Core).

This is quite the double-bill, I think. Seeing as how the authors of the films respective source materials were contemporaries, it is also kind of perfect. 
Wells' The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth was first published in 1904, while Burrough's At the Earth's Core was first serialized in All-Story Weekly in 1914 and later published as a novel in July of 1922.
The success of both films resulted in a slew of low-to-mid-budget film adaptations of other titles by Wells and Burroughs being made and released throughout the late 1970s and very early 1980s. Good times, fun stuff.

Alien (1979) - Sticker #9

 

Phantasm - 1000 Piece Puzzle by Messed Up Puzzles (with commentary)

The Giant Claw (1957) / - The Night The World Exploded (1957) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - September 19, 1957
Here is an embarrassing admission I will enjoy sharing with the world. The first time I ever watched The Giant Claw, when it aired on some random Saturday afternoon, it scared the living daylights out of me.

Yes, really. That oh-so-laughable snaggletoothed giant bird, to my five or six-year-old self, looked like some surreal horror ripped from a nightmare. The idea that the sky could hold and hide an inescapable gigantic grotesquerie like that terrified me. The spectacle of that weird bird knocking down toy planes and swallowing people attempting to parachute to safety horrified me.

Oh, and do not get me started on when they found its nest and shot the beast's egg!

Nowadays I understand and appreciate The Giant Claw for daring to attempt a straight-faced monster movie with the most cartoonish and goofy looking creature that ever disgraced motion pictures.

This scared me!?!

I have yet to see The Night The World Exploded, which was the second half of this double-feature. In Twice the Thrills! Twice the Chills! Horror and Science Fiction Double Features, 1955 - 1974, Bryan Senn dismisses The Night The World Exploded as a failure suffering from a "dearth of characterization, over-reliance on stock footage, impoverished special effects, and lazy scripting." [P. 59] Ouch.

Both films were directed by b-movie stalwart Fred F. Sears, who also helmed the previous year's superior double-header Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) and The Werewolf (1956). Those two are worth seeking out.

Lady Death: Dark Alliance - Trading Card #23

New Meets Old
Bad Kitty ran afoul of Lady Death in New York during the Diva of Death's mortal days. Showing bravado, Lady Death merely smiled at Kitty's threats, fully knowing she could dispatch the other quickly.

Zombie [Zombi 2 (1979)] - Newspaper Ad

Oakland Tribune - September 18, 1980
While I do not remember seeing this, or any, newspaper ad for Zombie, I do vividly recall being freaked out by this TV spot that most likely aired on KTVU (Channel 2) during Creature Features:

I have no idea where Zombie opened in August, but it opened in the San Francisco Bay Area in mid-September. A brief check of TV listings for the weekend of the 19th suggests that this spot may have been broadcast during the Saturday night broadcast of Creature Features. The movie being shown that night was Die, Monster, Die! (1965).
Or, maybe, the spot was aired the next weekend, when Creature Features aired Comedy of Terrors (1963).
Nothing is ringing the memory bell in my brain, though. So it goes.

Alien (1979) - Sticker #8

 

The Vampire's Ghost (1945) / The Missing Corpse (1945) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - September 17, 1945
In Revenge of the Creature Features Movie Guide (1988), John Stanley contemptuously dismissed The Vampire's Ghost as a grade Z abomination. One notable only for famed writer Leigh Brackett having co-written it.

Stanley changed and softened his tune somewhat when he revised his review for Creature Features Movie Guide Strikes Again (1994). That is where he called The Vampire Ghost, "The closest thing to a Val Lewton movie ever made by Republic Studios." [P. 420] He also praised its literate script and John Abbott's solid performance as the long suffering vampire Webb Fallon.

I thought the movie was pretty good, for its time, budget, and talent involved. You can judge for yourself, as the movie is available to view on YouTube.

At time of writing I have yet to check out the second feature of this double-bill, The Missing Corpse (1945). It appears to be a mystery-comedy of some sort. It is also available to watch on YouTube.

So there is the double-bill, recreated for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy...

Well, I say, "Enjoy." [Wink.]

Lady Death: Dark Alliance - Trading Card #22

Best Dream, or Worst Nightmare?
Best dream, or worst nightmare? Chaos' newest femme fatale, Bad Kitty, has taken her place aside Lady Death, Purgatori, and Chastity as extreme danger wrapped in a beautiful package.