Here are two very different posters I own for the same film.
The first is a French ‘grande’ poster, which I bought many years ago at a movie poster fair in London. I always liked it but had nowhere to display it. (When they call it ‘grande’ they are not kidding – its 120 by 160cm – so it needs a large space to display it adequately.) When I moved to live in France, I remembered I had it folded in a drawer somewhere and decided it might be cool to display a French poster in France. In my house, I created a ‘man cave’ (literally – the ceiling is about 6m high, most of the walls are bare stone and in winter its freezing cold and damp). I have a pool table in there I barely use, and I got this poster framed to loom over it. (Plus my wife refused to have it displayed anywhere else in the house!).
It is in so-so condition – there’s some tears along the folds and it doesn’t sit particularly flat within the frame. (I learnt to my cost it can be a false economy to use a cheap picture framer – the one I chose for this had the major advantage that they agreed to deliver the huge framed poster for free, but the frame itself isn’t study enough and the poster would benefit from linen-backing). There’s been various reprints of this poster for re-releases in the 60s but this one is from the first release. (You can tell because of the Universal distributor logo bottom right).
The other much smaller poster is from Belgium and is one of the more collectible of the Hammer Belgian posters. This one features star Peter Cushing prominently, while curiously the French one (and the UK quod, which is hard to find and very expensive) does not.
Brides of Dracula is one of my favourite Hammer Horror films, even though the title is misleading – it doesn’t actually feature Dracula at all, but it does bring back vampire hunter Van Helsing from the 1958 film. It has a great climax, where Cushing traps the evil vampire baron by jumping onto the blades of a windmill to make the shadow of a cross, and it has some of the best cinematography of any of the gothic Hammer movies. I recently found a Blu-ray copy at a flea market here in France so watched it all over again.
UPDATE: I recently also bought the above poster as a consolation to myself. I had been looking for a long time for a French ‘moyenne’ for Hammer’s 1958 Dracula, but was unable to source one for less than €1000, which is too rich for me. Then I saw this for rather less and thought “what the hell…” So now I have three posters framed for Brides of Dracula! I’m still on the look-out for a 1958 French Dracula poster at a reasonable price. Maybe some day….