Category: Movie memorabilia

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…


Hammer presents Dracula / The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

Once upon a time I used to listen to this pair of records quite a lot. The Dracula album has one side with an original vampire story narrated by Christopher Lee, whilst the other has ominous theme music from various Hammer films. The story had an intro that began with something like “you think you…


Dance With A Stranger

I have written elsewhere about how I am not normally a fan of photographic posters, but for this one I will make an exception. I really like the bold tinting and the minimalist, dramatic use of black space between the two main characters. I also remember the film (about Ruth Ellis, the last woman to…


Marnie

This is another poster I thought I had sold at auction and was glad to discover I hadn’t.   Marnie isn’t the greatest Hitchcock by a long way. There’s been a great deal of debate about whether TIppi Hedren’s performance in the title role is deliberately mannered or just plain bad, and there have been…


Raiders of the Lost Ark

Here’s an original UK quad and a US re-release poster for this Steven Spielberg classic. I still have these, but neither are in the greatest condition, unfortunately.   The UK quad is in the condition I bought it in – some tears and missing paper at the edges, which would be repairable if I were…


Film stills

I have never been particularly excited by film stills in the same way as I am for posters, but many people love to collect them. They are relatively cheap to pick up and easy to display. Back in the day, there was a thing called a ‘lobby card’, which was basically a hand tinted still…


The Curse of the Werewolf

This is one of my favourites of the posters I still own.   I remember first seeing this image in an 80s magazine called ‘The House of Hammer’, which featured rather cool black and white comic strip versions of the classic Hammer films.  These were really well illustrated and I have still got what I…