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Jan 12, 2023 · This 1970 legendary horror film (I saw it when I was 8) left an impression on everyone who saw it back in the day. Actually rated V for violence, you were g...
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Mar 4, 2014 · This 1970 film was notorious for scenes of torture – and much was made of the film’s most disgusting elements – if you aren’t familiar with this film, you have missed out on a “euro-sleaze” classic! Here is the trailer: “Rated V For Violence!”. “Mark Of The Devil” advertised itself as the first film “rated V for violence!”.
- Psycho-Rama // My World Dies Screaming
- Fright Insurance // Macabre
- Hypno-Vista // Horrors of The Black Museum
- No Late Admission // Psycho
- Fright Break // Homicidal
- The Punishment Poll // Mr. Sardonicus
- Free Vomit Bags // Mark of The Devil
- Duo-Vision // Wicked, Wicked
In order to truly become a classic, a horror movie can't just work on the surface; it has to get deep inside of your head. That's what Psycho-Rama tried to achieve when it was first conceived for My World Dies Screaming, later renamed Terror in the Haunted House. Psycho-Rama introduced audiences to subliminal imagery in order to let the scares sink...
Director William Castle didn't make a name for himself in the film industry by directing cinematic classics; instead, he relied on shock and schlock to help fill movie theater seats. His movies were full of what audiences craved at the time: horror, gore, terror, suspense, and a heaping helping of camp. But his true genius came from marketing—and t...
How do you make your routine horror movie stand out from the crowd? Hypnotize your audience, of course. Thus Hypno-Vista was born. For this gimmick, James Nicholson, president of American International Pictures, suggested that a lecture by a hypnotist, Dr. Emile Franchel, should precede Horrors of the Black Museum, which had a plot focusing on a hy...
Though this isn't the most gimmickiest of gimmicks, Alfred Hitchcock's insistence that no audience member be admitted into Psychoonce the movie started got a lot of publicity at the time. The Master of Suspense's reasoning is less about drumming up publicity and more about audience satisfaction, though. Because Janet Leigh gets killed so early into...
Another classic William Castle gimmick was the "fright break" he offered to audience members during his 1961 movie, Homicidal. Here, a timer would appear on the screen just as the film was hurtling toward its gruesome climax. Frightened audience members had 45 seconds to leave the theater and still get a full refund on their ticket. There was a cat...
The most interactive of William Castle's schlocky horror gimmicks put the fate of the film itself into the hands of the audience. Dubbed the "punishment poll," Castle devised a way to let viewers vote on the fate of the characters in the movie Mr. Sardonicus. Upon entering the theater, people were given a card with a picture of a thumb on it that w...
Horror fans are mostly masochists at heart. They don't want to be entertained—they want to be terrified. So when the folks behind 1970's Mark of the Devil gave out free vomit bagsto the audience due to the film's grotesque nature, how could any self-respecting horror fan not be intrigued? It wasn't just the bags that the studio was advertising; it ...
Duo-Vision was hyped as the new storytelling technique in cinema—offering two times the terror for the price of one ticket. Of course Duo-Vision is just fancy marketing lingo for split-screen, meaning audiences see a film from two completely different perspectives side-by-side. In the 1973 horror film Wicked, Wicked, that meant watching the movie f...
Mark of the Devil ( German: Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält, lit. Witches Tortured Till They Bleed) is a 1970 West German historical horror film directed by Michael Armstrong, and starring Olivera Vučo, Udo Kier, Reggie Nalder, Herbert Fux, and Herbert Lom. Its plot follows a witch hunter in 17th-century Austria who begins to questioning his ...
Apr 5, 1972 · Mark of the Devil: Directed by Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven. With Herbert Lom, Udo Kier, Olivera Katarina, Reggie Nalder. In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
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- Drama, History, Horror
- Michael Armstrong, Adrian Hoven
- 1972-04-05
The next day there was an article in the newspaper about the theater allowing kids to see it. There was a bit of notariety associated with having seen it. On top of that, for the next few weeks I carried my lunch to school in the vomit bag. The bag finally fell apart. I don't plan on carrying my lunch to work in the bag I just got...
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THIS IS FOR (10) BAGS. SHIPPING, $6.50. THANKS, JAMES. Items in the Price Guide are obtained exclusively from licensors and partners solely for our members’ research needs. ORIGINAL ACTUAL PROMOTIONAL VOMIT BAG FOR THE MYTHIC WEST GERMAN HORROR/GORE FILM "MARK OF THE DEVIL." THESE BAGS WOULD BE FROM 1972 WHEN THE FILM WAS RELEASED IN THE US.
