My friend Andrew who is a huge Who fan has been asking me blog about this poster, as he also owns a copy. This is the UK “Quad”(!) I think I got this for free from a bookshop window display back when the movie came out. It was damaged badly at one edge and I…
Eyes Without A Face
I am not sure but I do not believe I have ever seen Eyes Without A Face. This 1960 movie was realised by French director Georges Franju, a former documentary film-maker. The plot concerns a plastic surgeon who is obsessed with performing a face transplant upon his daughter, who has been badly disfigured in a…
Apocalypse Now
This is the US one sheet poster for one of the most epic and ambitious war movies ever. I distinctly remember seeing Apocalypse Now in the cinema. It was at an arthouse cinema in Nottingham, which did not have the best sound. Consequently it was impossible to understand a word of Marlon Brando’s dialogue. At…
Valentino / Women In Love
Here are a pair of French ‘grande’ posters for two Ken Russell movies. Flamboyant British ‘enfant terrible’ Russell made a wide range of ‘extreme’ censor and critic baiting movies – from The Devils to Whore. His movies tend to be love them or hate them affairs, and he made a number of undeniable stinkers in…
Vampire Circus
Sometimes there are movies whose title and concept far exceeds the execution. Vampire Circus IMHO is one. Now, admittedly some horror fans love this movie, and it is a great title, but if you have seen the movie you will know it is cheaply made and poorly acted, like much of Hammer’s 1970s output. Sadly,…
Notorious / Under Capricorn / The Paradine Case
This is a trio of original Belgian posters for Alfred Hitchcock movies from the late 40s that I bought last year. Notorious is one of Hitchcock’s most famous classic thrillers, with great set-pieces and fantastic chemistry between leads Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Mint copies of this poster have sold for over $1000 at auction….
Never Say Never Again
I remember seeing this the Summer it was released. The press had amped up “The Battle of the Bonds” between the “official” Roger Moore release Octopussy and this, Sean Connery’s return to the role after 12 years at the age of 52. NSNA is a loose remake of Thunderball, and came about due to a…
Sudden Impact
Sudden Impact was the point when the Dirty Harry series lost it for me. I love the first two movies in the series, but after 1973’s Magnum Force, the quality of each film dipped and the character of Harry became progressively both more reactionary and all-conquering – with the movies differentiated as much by the…
The Pit and the Pendulum / The Premature Burial
This is a pair of Belgian posters for two of the series of loose Edgar Allen Poe adaptations that legendary producer Roger Corman directed in the 60s. These followed on the success of Corman’s House Of Usher adaptation for American International Pictures. All starred Vincent Price, who is the one in the cowl in…
Movie novelisations
The movie “novelisation” is a concept that really took off in the late 70s. Movies adapted from novels have been a thing since the birth of cinema. A few selected movies also were published in book form way back when, notably the original King King. But the popularity of novelisations based on original movie scripts…