I’m loving going through the Yorkshire Evening Post’s archives to reveal the ads used to publicise a film’s release. I fondly remember seeing these as a kid- little glimpses into a film’s grittiness and sleaziness when I was too young to actually see the film.

 

The other day I stumbled upon the original ads for one of my favourite films, Halloween.

I also came across the original film review which was very positive (which it should have been!)

In fact it appears that the film ran for quite a few weeks here in Leeds. The folks here have great taste!

But I’m especially loving the fact that a competition was run in the newspaper to publicise the film. I’m just astounded that the prices couldn’t have been more topical for the film’s content- a new set of knives, an endless supply of coat hangers, driving lessons (although Michael Myers seemed to get by without these when he escaped from Smiths Grove).