Giant From the Unknown She Demons Jack Pierce Make-Up Monsters Horror IPressbook

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Giant From the Unknown She Demons Jack Pierce Make-Up Monsters Horror IPressbook
Giant From the Unknown and She Demons Jack Pierce Make-Up Monsters Horror 1958 Vintage Original 4-page Huge Pressbook
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Giant From the Unknown and She Demons Jack Pierce Make-Up Monsters Horror 1958 Vintage Original 4-page Huge Pressbook
Giant from the Unknown
is a 1958 horror film released by Astor Pictures and directed by Richard Cunha. The film stars Ed Kemmer, Sally Fraser, and Buddy Baer. It was theatrically released in March, 1958 on a double bill with She Demons.
The make-up effects were done by Jack Pierce, known for the classic visages of Boris Karloff's Frankenstein (1931), The Mummy (1932) and Lon Chaney Jr.'s The Wolf Man (1941). Baer, who played Vargas the Giant in this film, also played a giant in Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. The film was shot in San Bernardino National Forest.
The citizens of Pine Ridge, a small California town set in the mountains, are concerned about a series of livestock mutilations that have taken place. A local man named Harold Banks is found dead and had been killed in a manner similar to the livestock. These incidents had been happening around an area known as Devil's Crag and the local sheriff orders everyone to stay away from there. Some citizens speculate that the deaths have a supernatural cause and a local Native American man known as Indian Joe confirms their fears of a curse before being driven away from town by the sheriff. A local geologist named Wayne Brooks enters town and is told of the death by his friends Anne and Charlie Brown, two young siblings living in the area. The sheriff has heard about a confrontation that took place between Brooks and Banks several days before and is suspicious of Brooks. While the sheriff is informally questioning Brooks about the death, Dr. Cleveland and his daughter Janet enters town. Cleveland is planning on conducting archaeological research in the area. While Brooks helps Janet get supplies at the store, the sheriff warns Cleveland about the recent murder. Brooks informs Cleveland that he was formerly his student at college and offers to be his guide in the area. Brooks, Cleveland and Janet agree to have dinner at the lodge later that day.
While waiting for their dinner at the lodge, Brooks and Cleveland discuss the recent killings. Brooks tells Cleveland that the killings have taken place near Devil's Crag and that the local Native Americans have a legend that the area is cursed and one day evil spirits will rise in that area. Brooks also informs Cleveland that Native American artifacts have been found in the area and that he has a collection of them. Cleveland asks to see the artifacts and Brooks agrees to show them to him. Cleveland then tells Brooks about his reason for coming to the area. He is searching for the remains of a Spanish Conquistador expedition he believes reached that area 500 years ago. The expedition was led by a man named Ptolemy Firello but the specific group Cleveland is looking for is a small group known as the "Diablo Brigade" that split off the main group. This group was led by a giant named Vargas, also known as the "Diablo Giant." Janet then joins the two men and agrees to accompany Brooks to the local cinema after he takes Cleveland to see his laboratory.
Brooks takes Cleveland and Janet to his field laboratory to show them his artifacts. While Cleveland is examining artifacts, Janet cries out is fear. She had opened a box and found a small lizard inside. Brooks tells them that he found the lizard inside a rock and that the lizard had been in a state of suspended animation for a very long time. Brooks and Janet then leave to go to the cinema while Cleveland continues examining the artifacts. Indian Joe can be seen peering through the window.
As soon as Brooks and Janet arrive back at the laboratory from the cinema, Cleveland excitedly calls them inside. He had pieced together broken fragments into a cross. He theorizes that the Conquistador group he is after had influenced the natives of the area hundreds of years before and that is why they had made a cross. Brooks offers to take them to the spot where he had found the cross at in Devil's Crag and Cleveland agrees to go there the next morning.
The next morning, Brooks, Cleveland, and Janet leave town to go to where the broken cross was found. The sheriff sees them and follows them in his police car. When the group reaches Devil's Crag, Janet sees someone watching them in the undergrowth. The two men dismiss it as just a deer. The sheriff pulls up just then and chastises Brooks for leaving town and tells them Devil's Crag is off limits due to the danger. Cleveland produces a permit from the Commissioner of Public Lands that allows him to do his research and assumes full responsibility for Brooks. Cleveland also assures the sheriff that they are armed and can defend themselves from any danger. The sheriff then leaves and the group set up their camp.
The next day, while Brooks is examining the area, Indian Joe fires his rifle in Brooks' direction. Indian Joe then approaches Brooks and tells him that he is hunting rabbits. Indian Joe asks if they are there to rob Native American graves and Brooks assures him that they are only after Spanish artifacts. Indian Joe agrees to hunt elsewhere and warns Brooks that the place is evil.
Brooks returns to camp and tells Cleveland that the area is changed from how he remembers it. He theorizes that a recent electrical storm disturbed the area. The men discuss their plan to use metal detectors to search for Spanish artifacts and avoid Native American graves. They leave Janet to take care of the camp.
Brooks and Cleveland use their metal detectors to search the area all day without success. Janet encourages Cleveland to give up the search and he sadly agrees to do so. She wants to try to use a metal detector before they pack up camp and does so until accidentally detecting something. The group excavates the spot and find Spanish artifacts such as armor, weapons and bones. Cleveland plans to bring the artifacts to the museum and publish his findings. Brooks finds rock similar to the rock the lizard was entombed in and the handle of a massive axe he believes belonged to the "Diablo Giant." Brooks is forced to go back to camp because an electrical storm is beginning. As Brooks leaves, the "Diablo Giant" rises from the forest detritus.
The next day, the group examines the spot where Brooks found the axe. The axe is gone but they find giant-sized armor and other artifacts as well as a large indentation in the earth. They discuss the possibility that Vargas was in a state of suspended animation like the lizard and is now alive. At camp, the group arranges the artifacts on tree branches. Charlie Brown approaches the group and sees the artifacts. Brooks asks him not to tell anyone about what he has seen there because lots of people coming to Devil's Crag to see the artifacts would make their work impossible. Charlie agrees and leaves.
Later that night, a lightning strike revives the body of the 500-year-old Vargas, who stalks the three searchers and eventually kills a young woman. Sheriff Parker, the town Sheriff accuses and arrests Wayne for the murder of the young woman because a medallion from the search was found in the girl's hand. But later, it is revealed that Vargas is roaming around the forest causing another brutal death. The local town men, with the help of the three searchers and the sheriff go out to find and kill the giant, which causes more damage and deaths. Wayne finally kills the giant by causing him to fall off a bridge and into a waterfall
Ed Kemmer as Wayne Brooks
Sally Fraser as Janet Cleveland
Buddy Baer as Vargas the Giant
Bob Steele as Sheriff Parker
Morris Ankrum as Dr. Frederick Cleveland
Oliver Blake as Cafe Proprietor
Jolene Brand as Anne Brown
Billy Dix as Indian Joe
Gary Crutcher as Charlie Brown
Ned Davenport as Townsman
Ewing Miles Brown as Townsman
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A unique brand of entertainment in American Movie House history was known as the Midnight Ghost Show.  From its rise in the late 1920's to its eventual demise in the late 60's, the Spook Show captured imaginations and thrilled audiences in movie houses and drive-ins around the country.
Midnight Ghost Shows or Spook Shows, later called Midnight Horror Shows, were orchestrated by a magician or "Spook Master," and occurred live in the theatre before, between and after feature horror films.  Spook Show operators would take their shows on the road to small theaters across the country. Thousands of dollars could easily be made with a good routine and the willingness to live a somewhat transient existence. Theater operators made easy money booking these shows, with little out of pocket expense. Because the shows typically began at midnight, when the theater would otherwise be closed, the theater owners risked nothing by booking them and were all but guaranteed a profit.
Elaborate advertising and posters were provided way in advance by the Spook Show operators, who mailed them to the theater with instructions about how to build up interest and suspense in their patrons. Intriguing posters often bearing shocking claims were placed in the movie house lobbies weeks before the show rolled into town for its one- night- stand.
Trailers for these events were shown with the feature films in the weeks leading up to the Spook Show, generating intense interest and advance tickets sales. Gimmicks such as give-aways and free passes were employed to great success, as was radio advertising.  Advertising included such blurbs as, "SO SCARY WE DARE YOU TO SIT THROUGH IT ALL!  IF YOU DO---YOU WIN FREE 2 FOR 1 PASSES TO A NEAR FUTURE MOVIE!"  Another promised, "MONSTERS AND WEIRD BEAUTIES." Or from the Ahmen Ra and His Weird Tomb of Terrors featuring the Mummy in Person, "MONSTERS GRAB GIRLS FROM THE AUDIENCE!"
The Spook Show phenomena began in the lavish theaters of the 1920's where they were billed predominantly as midnight Magic Shows complete with magicians, seances, floating phantoms, illuminated spirits and often comedy as well. One of the unique aspects of these shows was the "blackout" where at the end of the show the theater lights would be turned off and glow-in-the-dark ghosts would appear to materialize overhead and on the stage, thrilling and terrifying audiences. Everything and anything could happen. Spiders would fly from the balcony, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe or Elvis Presley might materialize, if you were brave enough to sit through the whole show you might win a "dead body." Then the feature film, generally a horror film, would be shown.
Some would consider one man to be the king of the Spook Show Circuit- Jack Baker.
John Kessler, later known as Jack Baker, was born in Detroit Michigan in 1914.  He started his career in show business as a teenager, doing magic.  He later went on to sell trade magazines and in his travels he was invited to a Midnight Ghost Show. When the mentalist, Mel-Roy didn't show, Jack was tapped to do his magic act for the expectant audience.  He was hooked.
In time young Kessler joined up with Wyman Baker. Adopted by Baker's parents, (thus the change from Kessler to Baker)  the two "brothers" teamed up to create "Dr. Silkini's Spiritualistic Séance and Ghost Show in 1938: what would become the long-standing,  "Asylum of Horrors."
The advertising for the "Asylum of Horrors" promised Monsters and Fright but leaned towards a "Hellsapoppin' type show, replete with laughs as well as shrieks.  Typical Baker poster advertisement 'ballyhoo' for the Asylum of Horrors Show consisted of blurbs such as: "Eerie! See it Happen-right before your startled eyes- IN PERSON!…And on a rampage. DIRECT FROM HOLLYWOOD…THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER."
The show was a big hit. In fact it broke box office records. Over the years, real movie actors from Universal Films such as Glenn Strange, Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr., made guest appearances in Jack's show.  Universal even gave Baker special permission to use their Frankenstein character in the show because they felt that it contributed to the popularity of their monster. At one point there were 7 "units" like franchises, doing the show around the country. For many years Asylum of Horrors was the most successful and lucrative Spook Show on the circuit and Jack Baker became known as the King of the Spook Shows.
The decline of Spook Shows had many causes; greed for profit, jaded audiences, television and cinemascope, (resulting in the removal of stages from movie theaters.) But perhaps there was more. In the advent of Abbott and Costello meeting all the monsters, the Addams Family and The Munsters, there was a saturation of comedy into horror that spelled doom for the whole shebang.   Or perhaps too, the world was growing up, becoming more cynical, unwilling to suspend their disbelief even for a few short hours, when the Magic could happen.
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