ROCKET DVD ARTWORK

In late 2009 Rocket Entertainment started a DVD label which was designed to highlight cult movies from the past which had largely been ignored by the Australian Market. The main areas of focus were Science Fiction and Horror films which had played a big part in the life of many Australians when they were played on Awful Movies With Deadly Ernest and Science Fiction Theatre in the sixties. The label would also focus of film serials which were originally played as a support screening to the main feature on Saturday afternoons, intended to lure children back to the cinema to catch the next installment the following week. Australian children of the sixties would also enjoy many of these which were screened on afternoon television by ATV 0 in the mid to late sixties. Other cult areas of interest are the hundreds of juvenile delinquent films to have never been seen on these shores as well as the many Mental Hygiene films which were shown in classrooms of the fifties and sixties to keep our youth on the straight and narrow. Mental Hygiene genre films include Drug education, Sex Education, Dating and etiquette films and some industrial and road safety films.

 

RKT 038

ADVENTURES OF SIR GALAHAD

RKT 037

INSANE SCIENTISTS AND MAD PROFESSORS

(Released: 23rd September 2011)

RKT 036

JUNGLE GIRL

(Released: 19th August 2011)

 

RKT 035

THE WEIRD WEIRD WEST

(Released: 22nd July 2011)

RKT 034

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL

(Released: 17th June 2011)

I tried to add a bit of local feel to this cover by placing Captain Marvel

in front of Melbourne's West Gate Bridge.

 

RKT 033

MYSTERIOUS ISLANDS

AND FATEFUL JOURNEYS

(Released 20th May 2011)

RKT 032

CAPTAIN AMERICA

(Released: 24th April 2011)

 

RKT 031

THE WRONG CROWD

(Released: 18th March 2011)

 

 

 

 

RKT 030

THE DEVIL AT WORK

(Released: 18th February 2011)

 

RKT 029

PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO

(Released: 18th February 2011)

 

RKT 0028

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT #2

(Released: 21st January 2011)

 

RKT 027

PIRATES HARBOR

(Released: 21st January 2011)

 

 

RKT 026

DERANGED KILLERS

(Released: 10th December 2010)

 

RKT 025

THE BLACK WIDOW

(Released: 10th December 2010)

 

 

RKT 024

ROGER CORMAN COLLECTION

VOLUME 2

(Released: 19th November 2010)

 

RKT 023

THE CRIMSON GHOST

(Released: 19th November 2010)

 

 

 

RKT 022

THE ARCH HALL COLLECTION

(Released: 20th October 2010)

 

RKT 021

HORNY

SEXPLOITATION FILMS FROM THE 30'S TO THE 50'S

(Released: 20th October 2010)

 

RKT 020

WOMEN FROM SPACE

(Released: 22nd September 2010)

 

There was a price increase involved with producing the booklets which made them too expensive to produce. I had already done the booklet cover for Women From Space when we made the decision to drop them. 

RKT 019

COMMANDO CODY

SKY MARSHAL OF THE UNIVERSE

(Released: 22nd September 2010)

 

 

RKT 018

THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT #1

(Released: 1st July 2010)

 

RKT 017

THE PURPLE MONSTER STRIKES

(Released: 1st July 2010)

 

 

RKT 016

PLANETA BUR

(Released: 1st June 2010)

 

RKT 015

ZOMBIES OF THE STRATOSPHERE

(Released: 1st June 2010)

 

RKT 014

BLOOD SUCKERS

(Released: 25th August 2010)

 

RKT 013

ROGER CORMAN COLLECTION

VOLUME 1

(Released: 25th August 2010)

 

RKT 012

KING OF THE ROCKETMEN

(Released: 7th April 2010)

 

RKT 011

ED WOOD JR. COLLECTION

(Released: 7th April 2010)

 

RKT 010

UNDEAD

(Released: 6th January 2010)

 

RKT 009

HOOKED VOLUME 2

(Released: 6th January 2010)

The menu for disc one used a early version of the cover of Hooked 1.

RKT 008 

VOYAGES TO DISTANT PLANETS

(Released: 9th December 2009)

 

RKT 007

VERY BAD GIRLS

(Released: 9th December 2009)

 

                                    

 

RKT 006

INVADERS FROM OUTER SPACE

(Released: 25th November 2009)

 

Buzz thought my original alien was a little meek looking and suggested that I make him a little angrier and perhaps add some aspect of an invasion. He was right, I much prefer the second version. I had based the alien on one I saw in an old science fiction pulp magazine the aliens looked friendly but ended up wanting to eat the people of earth. I couldn't make that concept clear on the cover.

I really liked the idea of taking the aliens from each film and placing them in a typical earth settings. Disc 1 had Zontar and Gor sitting on the couch watching television. Both had picked up the bad habits of smoking and drinking.

Disc 2 had The Saucerman and The Master Of The Moon using the hotel urinal.

Disc 3 had Robot Monster and The Phantom From Space enjoying a BBQ in the backyard. I loved the idea that their dog had an ear infection and that they would have had to have gone to the vet to get it seen to. Unfortunately the company that was doing our authoring at the time cut the dog out of the menu. The house in the background has the fountain from Mon Oncle in their back yard.

 

The character on the cover of the booklet is Gwyllm from the Outer Limits episode; The Sixth Finger. That program is not on the DVD I just love drawing him. He only has four fingers in my version.

RKT 005

PREHISTORIC WOMEN

(Released: 25th November 2009)

 

RKT 004

JUVENILE

SINISTER SONS AND DANGEROUS DAUGHTERS

(Released: 28th October 2009)

 

The final cover for Juvenile was considered more suitable for release. It was mentioned that the first cover was too violent for the disc's rating and that I should tone down the violence a bit. The two girls are based Angela Elphick and Betty Pondikakis/Perrier who I worked with at Shock Records. Although Betty wasn't pregnant and didn't have a beehive hairstyle.

Below is the original version

RKT 003

WILD WOMEN OF WONGO

(Released: 28th October 2009)

 

RKT 002

RADAR MEN FROM THE MOON

(Released: 29th September 2009)

 

It was during the making of this cover that we decided to use original art on all our covers. We were going to use the original poster for the serial but couldn't get a copy that was good enough to reproduce. A day before the deadline I copied the poster, making a few alterations and changing the colour scheme.

 

RKT 001

HOOKED

(Released: 29th September 2009)

ANTI-DRUG FILMS FROM THE 30'S TO THE 70'S

                                                                        

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