Your Most Prized Poster

[eatbrie]

I do love Fearless Vampire killers, it's a great film one of my top 10 all time films. So an excellent choice poster.

"In August Manson sent Atkins, "Tex" Watson, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian to the home of Sharon Tate. They entered the home and rounded up the eight-month-pregnant Tate and all of her guests. In a killing frenzy, Tate and the rest were butchered to death and the word "Pig" was written in Tate's blood on the front door of the home."

Tate's fate certainly gives the Fearless Vampire poster an added macabre dimension.  In more psychological ways than can ever be told, Polanski's ongoing legal pains are tightly linked to the murder.

T

[MoviePosterBid.com]

how many people here, like myself, are old enough to remember the Manson murders  and everything else that was going on at the time

[Dr Hackenbush]

Far too young, thankfully

[eatbrie]

A friend of mine, who happens to be a well known French photographer, is putting a book on famous murder/death scenes.  Last year, we went to Marilyn's house on 5th Helena (here in L.A.), O.J.'s house on Bundy Dr. and we tried to find the Manson/Tate murder scene.  Unfortunately, the houses on Cielo Dr. have been moved around, the numbers have been changed, and there is no way to know for sure anymore.  They did it on purpose at the time of the murders to avoid an outflow of onlookers.

T

PS: Rich, I don't think I was walking yet  :.

[Ari]

can anyone tell me what (in)famous film maker lived and worked on the ranch before Manson took over?

[MoviePosterBid.com]

A friend of mine, who happens to be a well known French photographer, is putting a book on famous murder/death scenes.  Last year, we went to Marilyn's house on 5th Helena (here in L.A.), O.J.'s house on Bundy Dr. and we tried to find the Manson/Tate murder scene.  Unfortunately, the houses on Cielo Dr. have been moved around, the numbers have been changed, and there is no way to know for sure anymore.  They did it on purpose at the time of the murders to avoid an outflow of onlookers.

T

PS: Rich, I don't think I was walking yet  :.

Thierry, when I partially managed Grafitti comic shoppe in Westwood, OJ came in with Nicole one day. It was before they got married - about 1981-82 or so.

so here I am pricing comics and here they come, OJ first. He-stops-right-at-the-footstop, but does not step at, craning his head in the doorway. I look up & say "Hey.. OJ!" and he picks up a leg and steps in like a Tex Avery cartoon character with a big bounding step. Like a vampire.. he couldn't come in until you greeted him!! Nicole came in behind him.. she must have been 19 years old or something I told myself

anyway, I tell him how much I enjoyed seeing him on screen and etc.. Then he says "what about my football career?" and I told him his career was ending as I was beginning to watch football and that I didn't see him enough to appreciate him.

he turned on his heels and left so fast it was like he wasn't even there to begin with.. what an egomaniac..

you know, his current apartment isn't all that far here in Nevada.. maybe I can stop by and asks if he remembers me??

[eatbrie]

Are you talking about this apartment?

http://www.doc.nv.gov/lcc/index.php

Yeah, you should visit him.  Tell him I said hi!   

T

[MoviePosterBid.com]

yeah that's the one.. it's about a 5 hour drive. maybe 6. I understand his rent is very cheap, but he's locked into a contract for the next 9 years or so with no buyout option. The landlord did indicate if he behaves well while on property, he may let him out of his contract a year or two early. OJ is appealing the contractual obligations, but so far the arbitrator hasn't judged in OJ's favor.

But hey look... OJ has a chef that prepares 3 meals a day for he and his party pals and I also hear that he's been playing his old position - wide reciever - so they must have football games in the entertainment rooms...

[brude]

Oh, that's harsh Rich.  I guess the Ol' Juicemeister is learning how to fold linen pretty well by now.  I would just hope that some of his younger roommates are teaching him lessons in the finer arts of self defense.  I hate to say it, but I'm hoping he'll end like Dahmer... boing to the head...

I remember the Tate-LoBianco murders well, Rich.  Real bad karma.  It was so disturbing that even us New Yorkers were locking our doors tightly for fear that the crazies responsible could show up here.

[Ari]

can anyone tell me what (in)famous film maker lived and worked on the ranch before Manson took over?

Anybody?
he's still making movies.
regarded as inventing a subgenre.

[MoviePosterBid.com]

I remember the Tate-LoBianco murders well, Rich.  Real bad karma.  It was so disturbing that even us New Yorkers were locking our doors tightly for fear that the crazies responsible could show up here.

being from NYC.. I also remember walking every gal I knew who I partied with and hung out with right to their doors when they would go home during the Son of Sam craziness..

[Carson]

Did you see Spike Lee's Son of Sam, Rich? Was it anything like that?

Schan, where would you put my odds on one of those 40 x 60 Blade Runners. I can't get over that one. The one 80s poster I'd take over all 80s posters.

There's no way of knowing on a poster like that, though I'd guess  I could count on seeing, at least one, over the next 5 years.

[kovacs01]

That's where I was at Carson.  It was that image that drew me towards collecting in the first place, and it is in my top 5 favorite movies of all time. 

I would say you will see a few come up for sale in the next 5 years.  I did not see one after keeping watch for 4 years (not in a condition I would be happy with), and then I saw 3, i think, surface in the past year.  I was the underbidder on one Dave (cinemasterpieces) sold on ebay, and then I believe he sold one in his store as well.  Then the one I picked up.  There was one other a couple of years ago, but it had the crinkles and a 2 inch tear.  If I come across one, I will let you know.

Schan

[MoviePosterBid.com]

and I have one too.

to answer the son of sam question.. I didn't see the movie, but I doubt it could capture the fear that gripped NYC during that time

[Ari]

Ahh you all suck, Herschell Gordon Lewis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ecstasies of Women (1969) and Linda and Abilene (1969), a lesbian western which remains notorious for having been shot on the Spahn Ranch only months before it became inhabited by the Manson Family.

Gahh get some taste people

[eatbrie]

I knew that, but I was actually looking for someone famous, based on your question.

T

[Ari]

Beeeyatch, HGL invented GORE (well not really but he likes to think so), Master of Exploitation, true legend of US Cinema. NOT FAMOUS? I know (hope) you jest.

[brude]

Man, I never knew that...HG Lewis' ranch...you pullin' our leg, Ari?
That adds another bizarre angle to the Manson myth.

[Ari]

nope true story,  he rented it just prior,

[MoviePosterBid.com]

Spahn Ranch was actually a common filming location and I believe some of the Bonanza TV show was filmed there as well as the Lone Ranger TV shows

[sergmark]

how many people here, like myself, are old enough to remember the Manson murders  and everything else that was going on at the time

When was that in the 70's ?? I seem to remember seeing it on the news. Pretty scary to me.

[Dr Hackenbush]

When was that in the 70's ?? I seem to remember seeing it on the news. Pretty scary to me.

August 1969

[holiday]

bump

[theartofmovieposters]

These two:

[eatbrie]

Ted posted it before, but since this thread has been bumped, this is still my favorite poster I own.  Not the most expensive (or even rarest), but the fact that Sharon Tate got murdered a couple years later, that she was so freakin' drop dead gorgeous, married to Polanski and 8-months pregnant, gives the poster an added dimension I cannot look past.



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