Discussion of sexy film posters always brings me back to Ronald Ashcroft'sTHE ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER (1957), which just sends me and has from the first time I saw it. (I've only seen the poster and have never actually seen the movie itself.) This girl's got everything... she's leggy, got some meat around her middle, breasts not condescendingly over-large and above all nice wrists. Wrists get short shrift on the sexy scale but to me hands and their connections are one of the most important attributes on a woman. No matter how pretty, I don't think I could be with a woman who had clubby fingers. And yet I don't like dainty hands either; I like purposeful hands that look as though they do practical things and I would rather have a woman with man-hands than superfluous digits good for little more than attaching to press-on nails. (I'm making an assumption that the Astounding She-Monster doesn't wear press-on nails.) I think it was Psychotronic Video who ran a pic of the model used for the ASTOUNDING SHE-MONSTER onesheet years ago (I don't know if this was Shirley Kilpatrick, who played the AS-M or just a session model used before the movie was even made) and as I remember the poster artist didn't have to invent much.
Monday, December 10, 2007
SHE's still got it
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The poster artist was Albert Kallis, and I consider this poster his masterpiece. The photo he used for reference was printed in the back pages of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS #12, now a much sought-after collectors item. I don't know if Kallis himself took the photo, or if it came from another source; I only know that when I saw the poster in a lobby display when I was no more than 5 or 6 years old, it got my blood pumping in an enjoyably scary way (and it still does)... I felt self-conscious even at that age to be seen admiring it openly, so I loitered in the lobby and stole furtive glances at it that gave me more for my ticket money than whatever since-forgotten feature I was there to see.
You know, in the back of my mind I thought it might have been Little Shoppe of Horrors I'd seen that photo in but it made no sense to me that that Hammer-specific mag would run a non-Hammer-related picture. Thanks for the clarification, Tim, and thanks for the personal history. That could have been a page out of my adolescence, too!
"she's leggy, got some meat around her middle, breasts not condescendingly over-large..."
If I'd had any idea I was being condescended to all these years...
-Jeffrey Allen Rydell
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