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1s028 DR. MACABRE'S FRIGHTMARE OF MOVIE MONSTERS 40x60 Spook Show poster '50s live in person!

Date Sold 8/8/2013
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An Original Vintage Theatrical Folded Forty by Sixty Movie Poster (40x60; measures 40" x 60" [102 x 152 cm]) (Learn More)

Dr. Macabre's Frightmare of Movie Monsters, the circa 1950s horror science fiction (sci-fi) live stage spook show ("See monsters torture beautiful girls!"; "So scary - we dare you to sit through it all! If you do - you win free 2 for 1 passes to a future movie"; "SEE Slave maidens at the mercy of hideous live beasts!"; "In person shock shows"; "First time on stage - 2 all new horror shows combined - imagine seeing most of the scariest movie monsters alive! And right in the audience!"; "Mad monster impersonator Dr. Macabre's Frightmare of Movie Monsters - blood curling character portrayals of screen's scariest monsters"; "See what happens when Teen Age Frankenstein... meets Dracula's Daughter!"; "Plus stage show No. 2 - new concept in spook shows! 'Spooks-a Poppin' not like anything you've ever seen!"; "Sights so horrible, never before seen with human eyes"; "Girls bring an escort to protect you when the lights go out! Don't dare see it alone!") featuring the movies The Fly, Teen Age Frankenstein, and Daughter of Dracula. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1950s ("spook shows" started in the 1930s, and continued into the late 1960s, with their greatest prominence in the late 1940s and 1950s). Local theaters would book three to five low budget movies, and then advertise them as a late night "spook show". Often they would have "live" acts on stage (sometimes famous actors who had appeared in monster movies would appear on stage in full make up, and sometimes it would be local actors dressed as monsters), and often the posters would make outrageous promises (sometimes they might say a person would be beheaded on stage, etc!). Not too many of these spook show posters survive (almost all the known surviving ones are window cards, some of which are 14" x 22", and some of which are 22" x 28", and the shows certainly had very limited runs). The few "spook show" window cards that DO survive are rarely in even "very good" condition. If anyone knows more about this specific spook show or this poster, please e-mail us and we will post it here.
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Important Added Info: Note that we have sold a lot of Spook Show posters over the years (and they tend to be quite rare and quite often don't come up for sale again), but we have never seen this particular Spook Show poster before!

Condition: good. There are brown dot water stains scattered through parts of the poster.
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