The original 1933 King Kong has always been one of my favourite movies. I love everything about it, from concept to execution, and IMHO it still holds up nearly 90 years later. It was – and remains – a technical marvel of stop-motion animation. Animator Willis O’Brien managed to bring real pathos to an…
Live And Let Die/You Only Live Twice
One of these James Bond posters is an original, the other is a reprint. Can you tell which one is which? I bought these 2 posters together from a shop in Singapore, when I was living there. It was very unusual to find any places selling movie posters there, so when I saw these I…
La nuit du loup-garou
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…
Monster Mag
Ok, another guilty pleasure – I was a big fan of Monster Mag back in the 70s. Monster Mag was a UK publication for horror fans, which revelled in showing ‘full gloss gore’ images from the movies – hence the tag-line “open it out if you dare!” (It was designed to fold out into…
Tightrope
Guilty pleasure time: I have a soft spot for this moody 1984 Clint Eastwood noir thriller. I remember the UK reviews at the time were not particularly kind (“Trite rope” was the headline on one I recall). Tightrope is far from perfect, but I think its one of Clint’s better films from the 80s…
Moonraker / A View to a Kill
Here are a couple of original posters for two of the lesser Roger Moore Bonds. Moonraker IMHO is a low point in the franchise – honestly, what the hell is James Bond doing in space? It seemed then and still does a rather pathetic attempt to cash in on the success of contemporary sci-fi…
The Deer Hunter
I’ve posted elsewhere about lousy films that were promoted with great posters. This is the other way around – great film, really awful (IMHO) poster! This is the UK quad original release poster. I’m not a huge fan of photographic posters in any case, but what really bugs me about this poster is that the…