I thought I was done with buying movie posters, but this one I just could not resist. This is a French ‘moyenne’ (ie ‘medium size’) poster for the 1961 Hammer film The Curse of the Werewolf. I have already blogged about my Belgian poster for the same film here, which has now been supplanted as…
Crimes of Passion
This film is cinematic Marmite – you either love it or hate it. I am in the former camp, although quite what that says about me I don’t know. I remember going to see this while at university, with my friend John. We both really enjoyed it, to the point that he recommended it highly…
The Company of Wolves/An American Werewolf
Here are a couple of dramatic werewolf transformation stills from two very different movies. You can see elsewhere on my site that I am rather partial to a good werewolf movie. However, I never particularly liked The Company of Wolves. Director Neil Jordan made some cracking films (including Interview with the Vampire and Mona Lisa),…
The Two Jakes
This poster is the US one-sheet for the largely forgotten sequel to Chinatown. Chinatown is one of my all-time favourite movies. It is a fabulous evocation of a place and era, with a terrific twisty storyline, wonderful performances all round and a real sting in the tail. Chinatown wasn’t exactly crying out for a…