A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Playgirl Killer (1967)

PLAYGIRL KILLER 1967

“Artist or killer? Temptress or playgirl?”

Please don’t move or he’ll kill you!!!!!

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“It’s a fascinating eerie story of a mad killer, who loved to paint beautiful women and then…and then murder them only because they moved!”

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This exploitation film is directed by Erick Santamaria. And stars William Kerwin as Bill an unstable artist who is haunted by nightmares and driven to kill his female models when they move while posing. He’s obsessed by an unattainable beauty that he can’t seem to capture. He finally loses it and goes on a rampage, creating a collection of macabre trophies from his kills. As the tagline says–Playgirl Killer…paint it red for passion, red for rage, and red for his beautiful but bloodied victims. The film also stars Jean Christopher as Arlene, Andree Champagne as Nikki, who knew Neil Sedaka as Bob perhaps singing in the rain with the one he loves, and Linda Christopher as Betty.

Insane artist Bill: “They… always… move!”

Don’t you move a muscle, I’ll be back–your ever lovin’ MonsterGirl

 

A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away- The Fiend who Walked the West (1958)

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THE FIEND WHO WALKED THE WEST (1958)

This is a western remake of the film noir masterpiece Kiss of Death (1947

Hugh O’Brian plays Daniel Slade Hardy a convicted bank robber who just wants to get back to his wife and live a peaceful life. But fellow inmate, the homicidal psychopath Felix Griffin writer/producer (Robert Evans- executive producer on Rosemary’s Baby) makes his life a living hell when he starts terrorizing his wife Ellen (Linda Crystal) and begins a killing rampage… Co-starring Dolores Michaels as May, Stephan McNally as Marshal Frank Emmett, Edward Andrews as Judge Parker. Directed by Gordon Douglas (Them 1954, In Like Flint 1967) and scripted by Ben Hecht.& Lederer who did the ’47 screenplay for Kiss of Death.

“ANYONE HE CAN’T SCARE IS A LIAR!”

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Never a fiend, just your ever lovin’ MonsterGirl

A Trailer a Day Keeps the Boogeyman Away! The Sniper (1952)

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“Hungrily, he watched her walk down the street…and then he squeezed the trigger!”

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There’s a crazed sniper picking off brunettes, as the police scramble to try and profile the psychology of the killer on the loose!

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Gritty psycho-sexual film noir based on a story by Edna & Edward Anhalt. Screenplay by Harry Brown (A Place in the Sun ’51, The Man on the Eiffel Tower ’49) Director of Photography is the great Burnett Guffey (From Here To Eternity ’53, Private Hell 36, NIghtfall ’57, The Strange One ’57, Screaming Mimi ’58) With music by George Antheil (uncredited stock music compose)And film editing by the great Aaron Stell (Human Desire ’54, Beginning of the End ’57, Touch of Evil ’58, Lonelyhearts ’58, The Giant Gila Monster & The Killer Shrews ’59, To Kill A Mockingbird 1962).

Directed by Edward Dmytryk  marking his return to Hollywood after he was named on the blacklist and served time in jail for contempt of court.

Starring Adolphe Menjou as Police Lt. Frank Kafka, Arthur Franz as Eddie Miller, Gerald Mohr as Police Sgt. Joe Ferris. Noir’s sassy Marie Windsor as Jean Darr, and Mabel Paige as the landlady.

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Richard Kiley as Doctor James G. Kent “I’d look for somebody that’s been getting tough with women from the very beginning… maybe he started small slugging them on a dark street or something like that… maybe some woman did something mean to him when he was a kid. Whoever it was, he’s been killing her over and over again!

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Eternally Yours-MonsterGirl

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! Invaders from Mars/Oz 1953

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INVADERS FROM MARS 1953

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“Mankind’s oldest fear comes to life!”

William Cameron Menzies’ nightmarish ground hogs day tale of alienation, colonization, loss of identity and good old fashioned sci-fi alien goodness. Bearing a storyline and set design that could be considered analogous to The Wizard of OZ… that for a later post. My brother used to tease me every time the picture came on tv that the aliens looked like they each were walking like they had taken dumps in their pants monster costumes.

Here’s a little Saturday morning pre-Halloween treat for you to enjoy!!!! Grab a quick cold cola before it goes disappearing down that sandy hill o’re yonder.…

Don’t worry it’s only a dream… or is it? MonsterGirl

A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Ghost of Frankenstein

“The King of all Monsters strikes again! No chains can hold him! No tomb can seal him in!”

THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN 1942

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When Bela Lugosi as Ygor brings the wounded Frankenstein’s monster to Dr. Ludwig Frankenstein (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) to help restore his strength, the good doctor tries to replace the monster’s abnormal brain, with a normal one. The cast is fabulous with Lon Chaney Jr. as the Monster, Lionel Atwill, Evelyn Ankers as Ludwig’s daughter Elsa, Ralph Bellamy and Doris Lloyd!

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Coming to you from Trailer Land-The Ghost of MonsterGIrl!

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Alligator People (1959)

We’re still in our pre-celebration mode for our upcoming Chaney Blogathon in November! And cause Halloween’s sneaking up on us, right around the dark corner, I thought I should offer you yet another Lon Chaney Jr. teaser… here’s a snappy little film by Roy Del Ruth

The Alligator People

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Lon Chaney Jr as Manon: “I’ll kill you Alligator Man! Just like I’d kill any four-legged gator!”

THE ALLIGATOR PEOPLE 1959

You get under my skin!-MonsterGirl

A Trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! – The Haunted Palace (1963)

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In honor of the upcoming Chaney Blogathon …

I thought it appropriate to offer you this peek into Roger Corman’s slant on H.P. Lovecraft’s short story “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”,using an Edgar Allan Poe title…Starring Vincent Price and… screenplay by Charles Beaumont!

Co-staring our very special man of the month Lon Chaney Jr. as Simon Orne.

“Carrying on a family tradition of masterful motion picture horror!”

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Photo courtesy of Wrong Side of the Art Lon Chaney Jr with Vincent Price in The Haunted Palace 1963

THE HAUNTED PALACE 1963

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Haunting you all month- MonsterGirl