For Christmas, my friend, Mel, gifted me a new set of 8" x 10", lobby-card reproductions, commemorating one of my favorite, drive-in/UHF submissions: Ken (Festus) Curtis/Ray Kellogg/Jay Simms' 1959 opus, The Killer Shrews (depicted for this post in a series of succinct, "stock" shots).
The first, as featured above, spotlights one of the ravenous creatures in full, snarling-facial form. Ah, cutely frightful, ain't it?
The second is a barrel-protruding shrew, in one of the movie's most nerve-wracking moments.
The next features hero James Best hoisting sexy Ingrid Goode (Miss Sweden 1956) to safety, followed by a tense shot of frantic Goode pointing at an evident, furry foe.
The Killer Shrews is one of those low-budget gems that just gets more pleasing with each passing view. These wondrous, lobby cards remind me of how much I love Killer Shrews, enough so that I'll soon revisit it yet again. Thanks, Mel, for once more satisfying my cult-movie cravings. 😊
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