Well...I ended up losing two auctions that I really wanted to win...I thought I set high enough max bids and the listings ended at a time I wouldn't be available.
I was trying to get my hands on the Savage Streets Australian one sheet and the License To Drive Australian video promo poster.
So instead of those two I ended up getting a poster I had my eyes on but wasn't going to go out of my way to win. I placed a bid with no maximum bid and just let it play out...and the poster ended up selling for much less that I thought it would. There seemed to be a lot of interest and I thought it would go for more. It's the Sleepaway Camp video store poster. I'm not really a fan of the poster's design, but I love the movie and its soundtrack so owning this poster is another way to show my love for it. I also own the Shout Factory poster so it's great to have one more to go with it. This is another I didn't even know existed until it showed up on eBay, but I'm happy to be its owner now. Hoping to be able to get my hands on the posters for the other two films someday.
Here's one that I am really happy with. It's the original one sheet for Friday The 13th. The first film had a much better poster than any other film in the franchise as most were just text with no artwork. I'm also just a huge fan of the first film and the franchise in general!
I've wanted to own one of these for a while now, but in the last few months the price on this one seems to have jumped up from just over $100 to the $500+ range, at least from listings I see on eBay. I just couldn't justify spending that much, but I was able to get this one at a pretty great deal!
The poster has definitely seen some love over the years as it's not in perfect condition (you can still see where the poster was hung up in the theater from leftover tape/pin holes) but it looks beautiful in person and in a frame. The picture I took does not do it justice! (It looks stained, but that's just lighting/shadows in the picture.)
I'm going to meet Adrienne King and Ari Lehman next month and I'm going to have them autograph this one for me, which was one of my main motivations for getting one now!
Someday I'll collect the rest of the posters I need for the first eight Friday The 13th films as they seem to be more reasonably priced compared to this one and it'll be great to display them together!