Hi Everyone,

Hope you’re all keeping cool through this awfully hot summer. I’ve been busy with family matters, but I managed to have a little time to make a new collage.

This one is called “Carried Away” and I’ve been meaning to create it for a long time. It’s based on one of the oldest tropes in sci-fi/monster movie history – the damsel being carried away by the monster! In my research I wasn’t too surprised to see how often this trope was used in advertising — sometimes even when it doesn’t happen in the movie! But when you consider the audience of mostly young men, it’s not too surprising!

I had fun finding variations of the theme too – men carrying women, monsters carrying women, robots carrying women, women carrying women and sometimes women carrying men! I included many classics (King King, of course) as well as horror, sci-fi, some obscure movies, and even romantic comedies!

See how many you can find on the list below the picture! Enjoy and stay cool! – Therese

1. King Kong
2. Superman and Lois (2)
3. Tarzan and Jane (one is very tiny)
4. Mummies carrying Women (2)
5. The Colossal Man
6. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon
7. Fly Man
8. Cary Grant (3)
9. The Creature from the Black Lagoon (4)
10. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
11. A Headless Robot carrying a Woman
12. This Island Earth Creature
13. Women carrying Women (2)
14. Wonder Woman (3)
15. Dracula
16. Snow White
17. Jaws
18. Sea Creature with Scuba girl
19. Barbarella and the Angel
20. 3 characters from The Philadelphia Story
21. Martians carrying Women (2)
22. Rhett Carrying Scarlet
23. Wasp Woman
24. The Mysterian
25. Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin
26. Mandingo
27. Indiana Jones and Marian
28. Gorilla Robot with Woman
29. Green Dude with Sunglasses carrying Woman
30. Werewolf carrying Woman
31. James Cagney and Betty Davis (the Bride Came COD)
32. The Swamp Thing carrying Adrienne Barbeau
33. Gene Kelly (2)
34. Red Helmet Guy
35. Errol Flynn in San Antonio