Pulp International

Our formulation for Pulp Intl. is that everything from 1979 and before counts as vintage, so even though Alien feels modern—at least to us—it counts as a vintage movie. Therefore this Kenner board game based on the movie counts as vintage too. You notice it’s supposed to be for ages seven and up? That means no blood and gore, first player to the escape pod wi...

Here’s another digest novel, this time from Griffin Books, Office Playgirl by Eliot Brewster, with cover art by Fred Rodewald. We use the terminology “digest” a lot, so maybe it’s time to reiterate what they are—to ...

There are hundreds of wife-prostie novels, mainly from the 1960s. Housewife Call-Girl was written by William Kane, aka Ben Haas, for Bedside Books in 1962. We’ll get back to this theme a little later. The cover art here is by Harold W. McCauley.

The post

Romanian actress Tala Birell makes sure to not see a handgun she’s accusatorily presented with by a disembodied hand in this promo photo made for 1937’s She’s Dangerous. Birell was a stage and screen star in Europe before making the leap to Hollywood, after which she accumulated more than thirty acting credits. One Dangerous Night, Jungle Queen, and ...

This is a simple but effective poster. You know the movie it promotes will usher you into disturbing territory. If you watch it, you might afterward see the door in the art as a portal between realist cinema and genre cinema. That genre? Sexploitation. La casa sperduta nel parco was known in English as The House at the Edge of the Park. It’s a clash betw...