Which Are Your Favourite 'B' Team Artwork Monster Daybills?
Do you have a personal favourite from the above daybill selection of some monster featured 'B' team produced artwork? I also am interested in your best fun and fugly choices as well
The contenders are -
The Snow Creature
Godzilla King Of The Monsters
Fire Maidens From Outer Space
Behemoth The Sea Monster
Perseus Against The Monsters
Reptilicus
Curse Of The Faceless Man
The Creeping Unknown ( two versions a & b )
It The Terror From Beyond Space
Revenge Of The Creature
Night Monster
Son Of Frankenstein plus the Invisible Man Returns
Son Of Frankenstein
House of Dracula
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
My choices from the above sixteen daybills are as follows -
Best Artwork - Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man
Most Fun - Godzilla King Of The Monsters
Most Fugly - so so many and almost all of them, but I finally settled for The Creeping Unknown ( the busier A version )
F. Cunninghame was the only printer to own up to the poster artwork for two daybills. The other fourteen printers names remain anonymous.
Anyone care to name their selections in the above three categories ? Love to hear your thoughts.
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Fugly-The Creeping Unknown (b)
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However, I completely get where you are coming from as far as Godzilla is concerned.
I think this one brings a whole new dimension to FUGLY!
How then does this first release Polish Godzilla poster appeal to everyone then? Why are they both so happy ?
That Polish makes it look even more like a kiddy movie!
A bonus F. Cunninghame image to admire.
Now I thought I would include on the thread two monster films, Terror In The Midnight Sun ( 1959 ) and Island Of Terror ( 1966 ). Both films were distributed in Australia by Regent Films and the daybills solely featured distressed female images with no monsters to be seen. Adverting & Commercial was responsible for the Terror In The Miidnight Sun daybill, but Island Of Terror wasn't credited with a printer's name. I have included some overseas poster images featuring a monster that one would have thought would have appeared on the Australian posters. What do you think - was it censorship related or just a case of plain laziness that they didn't appear on the Australian artwork ?
The Monster And The Ape ( 1945 ).
Another entry of below par artwork here with this poster. Not the worse artwork though comparing it to earlier examples that appeared earlier on this thread. One would think a 1950's reprint, but interestingly the censorship rating logo is in the censorship style presentation only introduced on Australian film posters in November 1971.
From a pressbook a silkolene valence produced for the U.S.A, 1956 re-release.
The Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell daybill image certainly rates up there with the Godzilla image as being a favoutite of mine.
The amazing thing to me is that Roadshow Distributors distributed the film in Australia. They certainly dropped their standard with the commissioning of this one.
How the original monster looked.
The Australian daybill monster image. As I had previously mentioned is acceptable artwork.
The Australian one sheet duotone poster effort is certainly a different story though. I am thinking there should have also been be a similar duotone daybill printed as well. This artwork has to be top five FUGLY. Your thoughts?
The above Australian daybill image was previously featured here on this thread in September 2019, but has since disappeared.
An original Roadshow released daybill image courtesy of John not previously shown here, and an image showing what the monster actually looked like.
The Godzilla, Destroy All Monsters ( one sheet ) and Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell daybilll posters depictions of monsters are my favourite three. Anyone agree?
Are you referring then to the one sheet poster or do you per chance have a daybill version of this design?
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Peter
Two original 1957 Australian first release Paramount daybill posters.
A similar designed daybill without a distributor's credit. Most likely a follow up design for Paramount. The film's Australian distribution appears to have been handled only by Paramount between 1957 ansd1962.
This non credited distributor daybill would appear to have been a 1963 printing, Regent ( RFD ) took over the distribution of Godzilla from Paramount in 1963, so this poster should then be a RFA daybill.
Peter
With the interest shown here on the forum alone. a nice little bidding war would certainly take place if Bruce was to ever auction one.
Unfortunately it isn't the favourite crappy re-release RFD 'Incredible Tital Of Terror' tagline fan daybill that everyone seems to like.
I will be interested in seeing how this version fares. Have a feeling it will perform well,