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Offline peckinpah

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Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« on: April 09, 2012, 05:57:45 PM »
I love the 'fantastic film' genres. I'll  start with Corman / E.A. POE, Hammer, Harryhausen, Apes, misc. 50s/60s. I wanted to make reference stills of my archive for a long time. So I started...

(4 CORMAN/POE - films had a late release in Germany: HAUNTED late 60s; MASK early 70s; RAVEN in 1979 and LIGEIA (ugly poster I don't even have) in 1980. The early ones are great, I think:


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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2012, 06:15:34 PM »
First 3 are AMAZING Mike! Keep em coming!  thumbup
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2012, 06:29:49 PM »
Wow! Those are great, this forum always introduces me to stuff I have never seen.
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« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2012, 06:33:18 PM »
First 3 are AMAZING Mike! Keep em coming!  thumbup

Agree with this very intelligent Argentinean observation
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #4 on: April 09, 2012, 09:16:41 PM »
Agree with this very intelligent Argentinean observation

We're sharp people down here, you know?  ;)
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #5 on: April 09, 2012, 10:17:32 PM »
all great, love PENDULUM best. I do love german posters, the print quality is amazing, and the paper stock.
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #6 on: April 09, 2012, 10:47:18 PM »
Wow! Those are great, this forum always introduces me to stuff I have never seen.

Agree...Aint it cool?

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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #7 on: April 10, 2012, 06:05:44 AM »
I myself prefer the HOUSE OF USHER 1-sheet, the atmosphere is hard to top I think.

Yes I think we were quite lucky in Germany regarding the quality (most of the time). I love Spanish posters, but the paperstock...
German size 59x84cm are ideal for framing (frames for 1-sheets or Quads are really expensive over here). In Germany we especially love the old lobby cards: on thick 'real' photographic paperstock, superb image quality and large sets, sometimes up to 40-50 different cards! It is much more difficult to collect these, sometimes it takes decades to get a set complete (if so) because they are spread out all over the country or were destroyed for good by the distributors in the 60s or 70s before the scene started here and we could save the material. In the US or the UK one 'just' has to have the money and a set of eight can be added to a collection.

Anyway, here are all German Harryhausen posters (no re-releases included, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA was not released in Germany, shame). only BEAST FROM 20.000 FATHOMS I do not have, only one copy is known, no need to talk about its value :(
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #8 on: April 10, 2012, 08:01:08 AM »
In Germany we especially love the old lobby cards: on thick 'real' photographic paperstock, superb image quality and large sets, sometimes up to 40-50 different cards! It is much more difficult to collect these, sometimes it takes decades to get a set complete (if so) because they are spread out all over the country or were destroyed for good by the distributors in the 60s or 70s before the scene started here and we could save the material. In the US or the UK one 'just' has to have the money and a set of eight can be added to a collection.

You are absolutely right Mike. A few years ago I was lucky to get 2 of these german lobby cards for an argentinean film (a local version of Lang's "M"). One is numbered "19" so I assumed there was a lot of them left to complete the set. Been looking for another one to show up since then, with no luck  :(
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2012, 08:51:47 AM »
Let me know the German title, I'll try my berst :)

An example for a German set. 20.000 MILES TO EARTH. Took me 20 years to find all 24 cards. The US 11x14 features no image of the Ymir, over here we had him 8x in the set :)


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« Reply #10 on: April 11, 2012, 01:06:57 AM »


Rarely does a horror poster look so classy.  I love this one.
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #11 on: April 11, 2012, 10:55:10 AM »
Well, damn it all to hell.  Now I have to get serious and start collecting German posters.  Is there no mercy!!  Great stuff Mike.

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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #12 on: April 11, 2012, 12:24:15 PM »
Gotta love those Harryhausen's both the posters and the stills. Jollyfine stuff thumbup
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2012, 12:36:24 PM »
Well, damn it all to hell.  Now I have to get serious and start collecting German posters.  Is there no mercy!!  Great stuff Mike.

Lynn

No, no mercy. Just a lot of fun :)
Please go ahead  ;) After all I'm also a dealer, 'looking forward to meet you at my eBay store :)

I understand there are some Splatter fans here. How about some ZOMBI-fun ?
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #14 on: April 11, 2012, 11:09:45 PM »
Love the zombies, the german CANNIBAL film posters are what I want to see (well I own or have owned a lot, but they are the best).

ALSO ... Have any MARK OF THE DEVIL variations? I had 3 different German A1's.
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2012, 05:40:50 AM »
OK Ari, I hereby delay HAMMER for more disgusting (partly) beautiful artwork. Growing up in a movie theater and watching ZOMBI HOLOCAUST and ZOMBI FLESHEATERS at the age of 13 must have had some affect on me. Maybe Zombies (and for some: Cannibals) are the Godzillas of my generation :)




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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2012, 06:04:37 AM »
Danke.
I love the posters and the films.
I was similar, had rented All the Fulci's I could get my hands on by the time I was 12 and bought Dawn of the dead by then also. Its good for your health I am sure.
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2012, 06:10:17 AM »
Danke.
I love the posters and the films.
I was similar, had rented All the Fulci's I could get my hands on by the time I was 12 and bought Dawn of the dead by then also. Its good for your health I am sure.

I think so too, at least it works for us :). Great humorous people like Romero showed me early on that some of the nicest and honest people are in the horror (and heavy metal) genre. My experience anyway.
DAWN to me still is the most frightening horror film ever made. With a lot of help by Argento (or rather: GOBLIN !).

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« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2012, 08:52:54 AM »
OK Ari, I hereby delay HAMMER for more disgusting (partly) beautiful artwork. Growing up in a movie theater and watching ZOMBI HOLOCAUST and ZOMBI FLESHEATERS at the age of 13 must have had some affect on me. Maybe Zombies (and for some: Cannibals) are the Godzillas of my generation :)

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Never been a fan of cannibal flicks, but I really like these two (for obvious reasons).
Add two more to my want list.
Very nice collection, Mike!  thumbup

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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2012, 11:53:22 AM »
watching ZOMBI HOLOCAUST and ZOMBI FLESHEATERS at the age of 13 must have had some affect on me.

Looks like we are about the same age!
I also saw ZOMBI HOLOCAUST and ZOMBIE FLESHEATERS in the cinema in Germany when I was around 13. Way too young to legally see these films, but our local cinema didn't care as long as you bought a ticket.
Even saw DAWN OF THE DEAD in the same cinema when I was twelve. Made quite an impression on me.

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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2012, 01:05:05 PM »
Never been a fan of cannibal flicks, but I really like these two (for obvious reasons).
Add two more to my want list.
Very nice collection, Mike!  thumbup

I'm not a fan either. I also miss the fantastic element.
And we all should eat less meat. Especially us non-cannibals and non-zombies, the world suffers tremendousely because too many people want too much cheap flesh.
(Those two posters I can organize, price range is $30 - $50 I estimate.

Let's go home Debbie, HAMMER always sounds like 'home' to me ...

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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2012, 09:21:28 PM »
I'm not a fan either. I also miss the fantastic element.

Cannibal Holocaust IS fantastic ;)

And we all should eat less meat. Especially us non-cannibals and non-zombies, the world suffers tremendousely because too many people want too much cheap flesh.

Can't disagree, but it would be difficult for me to eat less meat ;)


Let's go home Debbie, HAMMER always sounds like 'home' to me ...


HAMMER TIME! Danke.
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2012, 09:29:55 PM »
Oh man!  Love those Hammer Mummies!
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Re: Mike's German SCI-FI / HORROR posters
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2012, 05:05:34 AM »
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