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Auction History Result 3x055 GIANT CHILLER-DILLER SCREAM SHOW Benton Spook Show WC 1960s Dracula, Wolf Man & Frankenstein! Date Sold 9/18/2012 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Benton Spook Show Window Card Movie Poster (WC; measures 13 3/4" x 22") (Learn More) The Giant Chiller-Diller Scream Show, the circa 1960s Spook Show horror theatrical stage show window card ("On Stage In Person"; "All-New Triple-Terror Thrills"; "Alive!! In Person!" "Direct from Hollywood!"; "Dare you see it!"; "On the loose!"; "GIRLS! It separates the MEN from the BOYS!"; "NOTICE: Manager reserves the right to turn on the lights at anytime."; "Year's best on screen HORROR PICTURE"; "Tickets on sale in advance at the box office NOW! Don't be turned away") featuring in-person performances by Dracula, The Wolf Man, and The Frankenstein Monster. This was a poster for a "spook show" of the 1930s ("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. NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: This card is made by the Benton Card Company which is a different company than the one that printed most of the window cards at that time. The Benton Card Company made mostly two-color window cards that used blown up newspaper ads. They sold their window cards cheaper than the regular ones, so many theaters used them. In the 1970s, someone bought the company and made reprints of earlier titles, but those are clearly marked. The window card offered here is from the original release of this movie! This window card was never folded. Often window cards would be folded across the middle, because that would make them 11" x 14", and they could then be sent with standard folded posters. Most collectors put an added value on a window card that has never been folded. Condition: very good. The card has darkened but is otherwise in pretty good condition! Learn More about condition grades 
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