Saturday Matinee

A couple of classic zombie posters. The bottom one is a Spanish poster for Night of the Living Dead, a much more traditional old-school design than the usual black and white photo montage version you see. The top one is for a 1977 Italian film with the English title The Child. It sounds a hoot, judging from the IMDB plot summary: 'A newly-hired housekeeper in a remote area is alarmed to discover that her boss's eleven-year-old daughter is using her supernatural powers to take revenge on the people she holds responsible for her mother's death, with the aid of her flesh-eating zombie 'friends'...'

Saturday Matinee

Somewhat late for a matinee, but ay me, it's been a hell of a week, what with two magazine deadlines to cope with - and I've got more work to do tomorrow. Anyway, in deference to the first enjoyable episode of Mark Gatiss's horror series, here is a cool art deco poster for one of Val Lewton's films, one I've wanted to watch again for a long time - and missed that it was on BBC 4. Bugger.