With the two Daleks movies in the news at the moment I was doing a bit of internet browsing and came across these two US drive-in cinema adverts, dating to December 1968.
Apparently it was felt quite appropriate to have Dr. Who and the Daleks share a double-bill (or even a triple-bill) with George A Romero's classic low budget horror Night of the Living Dead (1968).
This movie basically kick-started the whole flesh-eating Zombie genre, which is still going strong with The Walking Dead and its spin-offs.
The advert above is from Chicago, and the one below from San Francisco. There, the two movies were joined by one of the Toho kaiju movies - Gidrah The Three Headed Monster (AKA Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster, 1964). That at least was aimed at a similar audience to the Dalek movie, but the Romero movie is most definitely for adults only.
Images came from the BroaDWcast site, which archives information about Doctor Who from overseas sources (such as TV listings and articles from Hong Kong, Australia etc.).
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