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Johkr8

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Original US one-sheet “Don’t Look in the Basement”

Entertainment & Multimedia

Exploitation

Grindhouse

Horror movies

I felt extremely luck to have won this poster on an Ebay auction. I absolutely love grindhouse films and especially the posters who will write and photograph or draw explicit things (within reason for public display) to get you into the theater and pay to watch the movie.

This poster is definitely the epitome of trying to get you into tge theater. For those who were too young to understand, this was before the internet, youtube abd imdb where you could find out anything about a movie. Advertising on tv and radio were very expensive, especially for low budget exploitation films like this. You might see a quick trailer after 11 pm on a local station, but that was it. It would be preview of coming attractions before another movie would start and the newspaper in the movie section would have ads with showtimes and names of the theaters was how you’d find out about it.

Even though there’s writing on the poster, I feel this is a great win for my collection.

Any Grindhouse Exploitation movie fans out there?

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