August 2012 |
Still Hooked On on Horror After All These Years!
Nostalgia Rules...
Thirty Five Years Ago: Horror & Sci-fi collecting... circa 1978 (toy robots were a new interest!) |
44 Years Ago... Teenage Obsession: Part of my growing collection circa 1969
included Hammer posters, press books, stills, monster mags and Aurora model kits; Dracula, King Kong and Godzilla! |
Amazingly, these old plastic kits from the 1960s are now collected through eBay!
One rather special LP vinyl record still remains with me:
Hear the "scream heard around the world!"
And so does my Issue #1 of CREEPY... offers on a postcard please...
Forrest J Ackerman never failed us with these wonderful covers celebrating
FAMOUS MONSTERS
These covers did it for me!
FAMOUS MONSTERS
These covers did it for me!
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Monster Thrills...
Around the same time as 'Thriller' and 'The Outer Limits' UK TV
audiences were treated to "Silents Please", featuring some wonderfully
vintage Famous Monsters. Clips from some of the silent era's best films
were showcased in this series, including scenes with Lillian Gish, Rudolph
Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney Snr, Charlie Chaplin and
Buster Keaton.
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Supernatural Horror Filming (1969) created by Tim Stout (1946-2011) it apparently had its launch party in the basement of the Soho coffee bar, Le Macabre. See earlier blog. |
David Pirie (born 1953) hit the subject on the nail... or should I say, staked out
his arguement? in his 1974 book A HERITAGE OF HORROR
Nostalgia Rules: 1st ever "horror" I saw on TV (1964), the remarkable Charles Laughton in 'The Hunchback of Notra Dame' |
Nostalgia Rules: second "horror" seen on TV (1965), the outstanding
"Quatermass II"
The third TV film treat back then, I recall, was the incomparable
"King Kong"
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For One Week ONLY!
Nostalgia Rules: my first "horror" feature on a big screen (winter 1966), Hammer's double-bill "Dracula - Prince of Darkness" and "Plague of the Zombies" |
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A taste of the past...
And remember those bubble gum cards
and that stale piece of bubble gum?
Ok, I can't resist.... "Fangs For The Memories"...
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NO HOPE for us victims of FAMOUS MONSTERS OF FILMLAND! Fooling around at the Saachi Contemporary Art Gallery, London, 2012 |