Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1963, 1986. Archive of three title card maquettes hand lettered by Harold Adler for the 1963 film. Also included are two fascinating autograph letters, both elaborately designed and executed in a calligraphic style, from Adler to author, illustrator, and editor Fridolf Johnson relating to Adler's work with Hitchcock. Harold Adler was a calligrapher who created.....
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London: World Productions, 1997. Shooting script for the 1998 British television miniseries "Ultraviolet," seen here as "Crossing the Line," episode 2: "In Nomine Patris." Accompanied by 114 pages of call sheets, scene breakdowns, shooting schedules, and detailed notes on hair and makeup for each character. A six episode miniseries in which Jack Davenport plays a Detective Sergeant whose best friend.....
London: The Readers Library, 1926. First UK Edition. Photo-illustrated with stills from a performance of the play. A novelization of the 1924 stage play by Arnold Ridley and Bernard Merrivale, about an aging engine driver who believes his engine has become alive and evil. A film version was released in 1929, directed by Geza von Bolvary, and starring Carlyle Blackwell.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Shooting Final Draft script for the 1978 film. One of "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen's last disaster films (his penultimate film as director), following up on his success with "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), and "The Towering Inferno" (1974), and featuring an enormous star-studded cast, which included seven Academy Award winners (Michael Caine, Olivia de Havilland.....
Los Angeles: Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1969. Vintage color studio still photograph from the 1969 film. Based on the novel by Peter Miles. The feature film that brought Robert Altman to the attention of the film world, giving him the break he needed to make "MASH" in the year that followed. A gothic, psychological thriller that explores a spinster's depth of.....
London: EMI Film Distributors, Circa 1977. Collection of 16 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1977 UK release of the 1977 US film. Produced by Dino de Laurentiis. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos. Made to capitalize on the success of the first "Jaws" film, about a fisherman eager to pay off the mortgage on his boat who decides to.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original Treatment script for the 1977 horror film, here under the alternate title of "Orc." A blatant attempt to cash in on the popularity of "Jaws" two years earlier, the film follows a fishing vessel being stalked by a killer whale bent on avenging the death of its pregnant mate at the hands of the crew.....
Los Angeles: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1974. First Draft script for the 1975 episode "The Deadly Volley" from the television series "The Wide World of Mystery," first aired on January 27, 1975. An unliked professional tennis team owner is nearly murdered and the team members are all suspects. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, dated 10/10/74, noted as SECOND DRAFT.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1955. Vintage still photograph from the set of the 1955 film "Revenge of the Creature." Featuring a comical image of the film being shot in the water at Marineland, Florida while a dolphin show takes place in the background. Half of the gathered crowd watches the dolphin show, while the other half has turned to.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Draft script for the 1973 play "There Was a Little Girl," here under both that title and the working title "Madhouse." With a holograph pencil notation of copy No. 18 on the title page. Laid in with the script is a four page copied budget proposal. Nothing is known about whether the play was produced, but it.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1977. Original scenario artwork for the 1978 horror film. Depicting the interior of Peggy Ann Snow's Catskills home. Based on the 1976 novel by William Goldman, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A young Anthony Hopkins plays a mentally disturbed magician who rises to fame when he begins utilizing a ventriloquist dummy. He rekindles.....
London: Warner-Pathe, 1966. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 UK release of the 1966 US film. Mimeograph snipes and distributor rubber-stamps on the versos. Patrick O'Neal stars as a vengeful killer who escapes death-by-execution, ravaging the city of Baltimore on the hunt for those responsible for his incarceration. 8 x 10 inches. Faint toning and creasing.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1981. Draft script for the 1981 film. Script belonging to sound mixer Les Lazarowitz, with his name in holograph ink on the title page, and three pages of annotations in holograph marker and ink with reference to sound work laid in. Also laid in is a separate Sound EFX Breakdown with sections underlined in holograph.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1946 film. Phyllis Allenby (Lockhart) has an ancient curse on her family, cast by a pack of wolves. After a series of local murders, she is convinced she and her werewolf curse are to blame, for she finds her belongings muddied, torn, and streaked with blood almost.....
London: Amicus Productions, 1973. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 UK film, based on the novel "Fengriffen" by David Case. The ghost and severed hand of a 18th century servant terrorizes the descendant of the nobleman who maimed him, along with the descendant's new wife. A darker and more serious film than the typical Amicus horror.....
N.p. American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 British-American film. Based on Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 novella, "Carmilla." An erotic, vampire horror entry in which a beautiful, seductive vampire befriends a young woman and begins to feast off her blood. The lesbian relationship between the vampire and her young victim concerned the censor, who.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Vintage studio still photograph of director Roy Ward Baker and cinematographer Moray Grant on the set of the 1970 Hammer horror film. With holograph annotations on the verso. Based on the 1872 story, "Carmilla," by Sheridan Le Fanu, about a female vampire named Marcilla Karnstein (Ingrid Pitt) who comes back from death, renamed.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, Circa 1948. Vintage publicity photograph from the 1948 film, showing actors Bud Abbott and Lou Costello facing off against Lon Chaney Jr., Bela Lugosi, and Glenn Strange (as the Wolf Man, Dracula, and Frankenstein's monster, respectively). Freight handlers come across the remains of Frankenstein's monster, and soon find themselves caught in a battle between Dracula, who.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1963. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1963 Italian anthology horror film, two showing actress Michele Mercier from the episode "The Telephon" and two showing Boris Karloff from the episode "The Wurdalak." One with the stamp of still photographer Gianni Assenza on the verso. A collection of three horror stories, each.....
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N.p. N.p., Circa 1963. Collection of 12 vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1963 Italian anthology film, including 8 photographs from "The Wurdulak," 2 photographs from "The Telephone," and 2 photographs from "The Drop of Water." Three with the stamp of still photographer Gianna Assenza on the verso. A collection of three horror stories, each introduced by Boris Karloff as narrator.....
Culver City, CA: Associated Producers Inc., 1959. Draft script for the 1959 film. Sequel to Kurt Neumann's "The Fly," and taking place one year after the conclusion of that film. Phillipe Delambre (Brett Halsey) takes up his father's work of matter transmission, and with his uncle Francois (Vincent Price) they accidentally produce a monstrous creature, a man with the head.....
London: Warden Productions, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 British film, with notation of underlined "A-9" in holograph ink on top right of title page. Young couple Robert (David Hemmings) and Claire (Gayle Hunnicutt) tragically lose their 6-year old son David (Adam Bridge) in an accidental drowning. Claire, traumatized, breaks down, and after multiple suicide attempts is committed to a......
Los Angeles: T.A.T Communications Company, 1977, 1978. Three original scripts for two episodes from the short-lived gothic horror sitcom which aired on NBC in 1979. First Draft and a Second Draft scripts for the pilot episode "The Blacke Death," which aired on April 12, 1979, and a First Draft script for the third episode "The Evil from Within," here under.....
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief annotations throughout in holograph ink and pencil. An anthology horror film, featuring four different stories, including vampires, witchcraft, wax ladies, and eerie stranglers. In one story, a writer is haunted by the psychopathic central character of his.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1962. Collection of nine vintage studio still photographs, two borderless, from the 1962 film. Jane Lindstom's (Glynis Johns) car breaks down and she seeks assistance at the home of a man named Caligari (Dan O'Herlihy), where she soon finds herself prisoner, and none of the other residents seem willing to help. Not a remake of the.....
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1986. Revised Third Draft script for the 1987 film. INSCRIBED by actor Kristy Swanson on the title page to an unknown crew member. Based on the 1979 Gothic novel by Virginia C. Andrews, about the incestuous plight of four unlucky siblings whose mother abandons them in the attic of her family's decaying ancestral home after their.....
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original Treatment script for an unproduced film. Written by film producer Richard Bluel (best know for his work on the 1966 television series "The Green Hornet") and screenwriter Pat Fielder (best known for the 1962 film "Geronimo"). "The Summoning" follows a man who seeks psychiatric help for his nightmares, believing that he is seeing visions of his.....
![Exorcist II: The Heretic [The Heretic] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). John Boorman,...](/pictures/thumb/143783.jpg?v=1598502665)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here under a working title, "The Heretic." Illegible name in holograph ink on one page. Dr. Gene Tuskin (Fletcher) works with troubled children, perhaps none more troubled than Regan MacNeil (Blair), who suffers from bad dreams and repressed memories of demonic possession. Dr. Tuskin's hypnotism reveals that the.....
![The Devil's Female [Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil, Beyond the Darkness] (Original poster for...](/pictures/thumb/147023.jpg?v=1580356696)
N.p. Constantin-Film, 1976. Vintage French-Canadian poster for the 1974 German film, "Magdalena, vom Teufel besessen," released in the US as "Beyond the Darkness," "Magdalena, Possessed by the Devil," and "The Devil’s Female." With the latter title tipped on to the poster, demonstrating the ad hoc distribution process for grindhouse and exploitation films, which often saw titles change at a moment’s.....
![La Bete [The Beast] (Collection of five original photographs from the 1975 film). Walerian...](/pictures/thumb/149356.jpg?v=1597965787)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France: Argos Films, 1975. Collection of five vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1975 French film, showing actress Lisbeth Hummel and parts of Guy Trejan. Originally a short segment that functioned as the final installment of Borowczyk's "Immoral Tales" (1973), expanded in 1975 by the director into a surreal chamber drama. Loosely based on Prosper Merimee's 1869 novella "Lokis." A......
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised Final Script for the 1942 horror film, based on the 1936 novel by Jessie Douglas Kerruish. A well-crafted (and in some ways, superior) variation on Universal's "Wolfman" films of the 1930s and 1940s, released as a double-feature with the equally intriguing "Dr. Renault's Secret" in 1942, in the heat of the studio's incredible run.....
![The Prey [Prey] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film). Edwin Scott Brown, Summer Brown, Steve...](/pictures/thumb/144562.jpg?v=1559339001)
Los Angeles: Essex Productions, 1979. Final Draft script for the 1984 horror film. Copy belonging to makeup artist John Carl Buechler, with his name in holograph ink on the title page and two Polaroid photographs laid in. Six friends are stalked and murdered while on a camping trip. Shot on location in Idyllwild, California. Green titled wrappers. Title page present.....
Los Angeles: Jack Stewart and Associates, Circa 1950. Original radio script for "The Dead Are Never Lonely," episode 474 of season 10 (Sept. 25, 1950) of the popular radio program, "Inner Sanctum Mystery." The series aired from January 7, 1941 to October 5, 1952, and was created by producer Himan Brown. A total of 527 episodes were broadcast, most of.....
![The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment script for an uproduced...](/pictures/thumb/133776.jpg?v=1418081706)
N.p. N.p., 1932. Treatment script for tan unproduced film called 'The Revolt of the Dead," with an alternate title, "The Revolt of the Savage," written for screen by Gouverneur Morris and Gerrit Lloyd, from a story suggested by Tod Browning. Holograph annotations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. In Africa, an Englishman named Trelawney.....
N.p. Millimeter Films, 1988. Vintage First Re-Write script for the 1989 film. A rare example of a sequel that rivals its predecessor. Following up on the cult horror classic "The Stepfather," Terry O'Quinn reprises his pitch-perfect role as a psychotic killer escaped from an insane asylum who, obsessed with "family values," marries into broken homes and murders his new family.....
Los Angeles: Conquest Productions, 1985. Draft script for the 1987 film, preceding its release by 2 years. Production designer's working copy, with production design material highlighted on nearly every page in yellow (and occasionally underlined in ink). Bound in at the rear are a crew list (humorously titled "Crue List"), two page cast list, a "suppliers" list, a weather information.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942. First American Edition, and first edition under this title. Preceded by the UK edition, titled "Uneasy Freehold" published by Peter Davies in 1941. Basis for the 1944 film classic, directed by Lewis Allen and starring Ray Milland, recently named by Martin Scorsese as his favorite horror film of all time. Near Fine in a Very.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1977 film. Based on the 1973 novel by Dean R. Koontz. British director Donald Cammell's most conventional film, which is not to say it is not incredibly strange and distrurbing. A super-computer named Proteus IV traps Julie Christie in her own home, with the intention of impregnating her.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1976. Final Shooting script for the 1977 film. With 33 blue and gray revision pages bound in at the rear (as opposed to being bound in as replacement leaves). Copy belonging to uncredited cast or crew member Robert Harrison, with his name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper, and.....
N.p. N.p., 1963-1964. Archive of 66 vintage reference photographs from "Las Luchadoras Contra El Medico Asesino" ["Wrestling Women vs. the Mad Scientist"] (1963) and "Las Luchadoras Contra La Momia" ["Wrestling Women vs. the Mummy"] (1964). Prolific Mexican director Rene Cardona and screenwriter Alfredo Salazar developed a series of films following the supernatural-battling antics of "luchadoras," or female lucha libre wrestlers, in.....
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Encino, CA: Laurelwood Productions, 1983. Revised Shooting Script for the 1984 film, released to theaters as "Night Shadows," but retitled on video as "Mutant," retaining that title for all subsequent releases. Copy belonging to special effects personnel Paul Stewart, with his name on the title page, and annotations throughout, in holograph ink. Stewart is notable for having also worked on.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1983. Vintage studio still photograph from the US release of the 1983 film. Based on Stephen King's 1983 novel of the same name. Director John Carpenter was originally not interested in directing this film, which he felt lacked significant horror for the genre. As in the novel, the film follows a daemonic car whose.....
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1980. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1980 film, with director John Carpenter and leading ladies Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curits, and Janet Leigh posing for the camera during a shoot. With a holograph notation in French on the verso. Carpenter's followup to his breakthrough hit "Halloween," about paranormal events that begin happening when a mysterious.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers Television, 1998. Draft script for Season one, episode 11 of the 1998-1999 television series, which originally aired January 29, 1999 on FOX. Copy belonging to actor Brian O'Sullivan who played Brian Reed in the episode, with his name and character on a label tipped onto the front wrapper. A deceased cop is sent back to earth.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. The anemic, undead governor of a nineteenth century prison for the criminally insane conducts cruel, illegal experiments on his inmates, mostly involving blood transfusions. Set in Transylvania. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1945 horror anthology film. An architect spends a weekend in a friend's country house with a number of guests that he has never met but has seen in his nightmares. He soon realizes he is able to predict spontaneous events in the house before they happen, leading the guests to relate.....
![The Black Belly of the Tarantula [La Tarantola dal ventre Nero] (Collection of four original...](/pictures/thumb/150801.jpg?v=1608072610)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Collection of four vintage studio still photographs, all mounted on presentation cards as issued by the distributor, from the US release of the 1971 Italian film. A police detective investigates a string of murders where the victims are paralyzed and disemboweled. Set and shot on location in Rome. Cards 10 x 8 inches. Presentation card.....
![The Black Belly of the Tarantula [La Tarantola dal ventre Nero] (Complete set of eight color...](/pictures/thumb/150718.jpg?v=1609368670)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1972 US release of the 1971 Italian film. A police detective investigates a string of murders where the victims are paralyzed and disemboweled. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.
N.p. N.p., 1945. Vintage reference photograph of actor Lon Chaney Jr. as the Wolf Man for the film "House of Dracula" (Erle C. Kenton, 1945), getting his makeup applied by legendary Universal Pictures makeup artist Jack Pierce, circa 1940s. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Chaney appeared as the Wolf Man in five Universal monster mash-up films.....
![Mockery [Terror] [The Harelip] (Original screenplay for the 1927 film). Lon Chaney, Benjamin...](/pictures/thumb/140438.jpg?v=1492980535)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1927. Draft script for the 1927 silent film "Mockery," seen here under two early draft titles "Terror" and "The Harelip." Lon Chaney is a half-witted Russian peasant who is promised food and a place to live if he escorts a Countess (Bedford) safely home. He does so, despite becoming caught up in the Bolshevik revolution.....
![Madhouse [The Revenge of Dr. Death] [Dr. Death] [The Legend of Dr. Death](Original screenplay for...](/pictures/thumb/152354.jpg?v=1617313968)
London: American International Productions, 1973. Working Draft script for the 1974 film, belonging to uncredited crew member Dennis Maddison, with name and phone numbers in holograph ink on top margin of title page, here under the working titles, "Dr. Death," visible through die-cut window, hand written in holograph marker on partial page, affixed, with what appears to be gauze bandages.....
New York: Paramount Pictures, 1974. Collection of 11 vintage borderless studio still photographs with bottom margins with text from the 1974 film. Mimeo snipes affixed to verso and folded over recto on Paramount Pictures letterhead and "THE SILVER SCREEN ARCHIVES ..." stamp on the verso. Laid in is press release from Paramount Pictures announcing a premiere engagement with "Frankenstein and.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1977. Original Pressbook for the 1974 film, re-released in 1977. An easily scared baby kills, and often. In the vein of "Rosemary's Baby" (1968). 24 pages, saddle stapled, 9.5 x 14 inches. A couple of tiny closed tears, and a hint of rubbing, else Near Fine.
N.p. Arkoff International, 1982. Collection of 2 vintage black-and-white studio still photographs from the American release of the 1982 film. A charming, low budget monster film, complete with a stop-motion animated dragon. Written, directed, and produced by Larry Cohen, whose film "It's Alive!" achieved cult status. Photographs featuring actress Candy Clark and Michael Moriarty, who played Joan and Jimmy Quinn.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1995. Final Shooting script for the 1995 film. Copy belonging to noted crime writer Mickey Spillane, who appeared in a cameo in the film as a personal favor to director Max Allan Collins. With Spillane's name in holograph ink to the front wrapper and annotations highlighting lines to pages 56-59. A woman's increasingly psychotic obsession with her young.....
![From Beyond the Grave [Tales From Beyond the Grave] (Original screenplay for the 1974 British...](/pictures/thumb/151777.jpg?v=1614207195)
London: Amicus Productions, 1974. Draft script for the 1974 British horror anthology film. Copy belonging to actor Ian Carmichael, with his holograph ink and pencil annotations throughout. Laid in with the screenplay is a signed photograph of Carmichael and a manuscript note signed by the actor, dated 18/8/73, giving the script to a Mrs. Mugford for her "celebrity sale." Based.....
Paris: Warner-Pathe, 1964. Collection of four vintage reference photographs from the 1964 horror film, three without borders. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso. Based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, about a cruel Satanist prince who invites the local nobility to a masked ball at his castle in the midst of a deadly.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1972. Collection of eight studio still photographs from the 1972 film. An African prince is turned into a vampire during a visit to Transylvania in the 1790s. 200 years later, he emerges from his coffin and begins attacking the residents of Los Angeles. A classic cult entry in the blaxploitation canon of the 1970s.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1972 film. With holograph ink and pencil annotations on the verso. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. An African prince is turned into a vampire during a visit to Transylvania in the 1790s. 200 years later, he emerges from his coffin and begins attacking the residents.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. First Draft script for the 1983 film. Accompanied by a twenty-page German language program and single-page English promotional synopsis for the film. An early draft, written by screenwriter Jeffrey Boam a year after the novel's release at the request of Lorimar Film Entertainment, before they shuttered their film division and the rights went to Dino De Laurentiis.....
Los Angeles: New World Pictures, 1977. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white photographs from the 1977 horror film. David Cronenberg's fourth film, continuing his meditation of horrific transformations of the human body. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits. The orifice hides a......
Toronto: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1977. Two vintage borderless black-and-white photographs from the Canadian release of the 1977 horror film. David Cronenberg's fourth film, continuing his meditation of horrific transformations of the human body. Chambers plays a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing a surgical operation, develops an orifice under one of her armpits.....
Los Angeles: Embassy Pictures, 1981. Vintage photograph showing director David Cronenberg and crew shooting a scene from actress Jennifer O'Neil's point-of-view on the set of the 1981 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. A shadowy security company seeks to use "scanners," people with various psychic abilities, as weapons, but are opposed by an underground movement vying for world.....
N.p. N.p., 1977. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1977 Canadian film, showing actress Marilyn Chambers. David Cronenberg's fourth feature, continuing his meditation on horrific transformations of the human body. The film follows a woman who, after being injured in a motorcycle accident and undergoing experimental surgery, develops an orifice under one of her armpits. The orifice hides a phallic.....
N.p. New World Pictures, 1979. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1979 film. With the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. Canadian auteur David Cronenberg's sixth film, completed shortly after an acrimonious divorce, following the dissolving relationship between a demonically disturbed man and his mentally ill ex-wife, who is confined in an unorthodox, controversial psychiatric.....
Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph annotations on the versos. A high-rise apartment building is infected by a parasite that turns its victims into sex-crazed maniacs that can infect with the slightest touch. Shot on location in Montreal, Canada. 7 x 5 inches. Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1976. Collection of 3 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1976 release of the 1976 American-Italian film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos of 2 stills, and cropping annotations on the versos of 2 stills. Based on Robert Marasco's 1973 novel, about a haunted house and the summer caretakers moving in with their young son.....
![Roald Dahl's] Tales of the Unexpected (Original photograph from the 1980 television series)....](/pictures/thumb/148094.jpg?v=1598412681)
N.p. Anglia Television, 1980. Vintage studio still photograph of Derek Jacobi from the 1980 British television series, episode 11, "Skin" which aired on March 8, 1980 on ITV. "Tales of the Unexpected," aired on the British television network ITV from March 24, 1979 to May 13, 1988, created by Roald Dahl, based on his dark, comedic short stories. Jacobi is a......
![The Devil is a Woman [Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore] (Complete set of eight original color...](/pictures/thumb/150626.jpg?v=1605860466)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 1975 US release of the 1974 Italian film. A convent's vicious, power-hungry Mother Superior bullies and torments those who stand in her way, but the arrival of an agnostic writer looking for new material threatens to challenge the nun's power. Shot on location in.....
![The Devil is a Woman [The Tempter, Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore] (Collection of five original...](/pictures/thumb/150627.jpg?v=1605860467)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Collection of five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1975 US release of the 1974 Italian film. With the stamp of Consolidated Theatre Services on the verso. A convent's vicious, power-hungry Mother Superior bullies and torments those who stand in her way, but the arrival of a young, agnostic writer looking for.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Vintage borderless reference photograph of producer Steven Spielberg and director Joe Dante on the set of the 1984 film. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. The story of a family besieged by small, troublemaking creatures that wreak havoc on their town over the Christmas holiday. Criticism of the film's blend of horror and comedy caused.....
Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1981. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1981 film. Television newswoman Karen White goes on a retreat after a traumatic incident with a serial killer. But is she really safe? And what should she fear more: regaining her memory or the creepy residents of The Colony? Followed by many unsatisfying and unconnected.....
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists, 1978. Collection of 3 vintage full color lobby cards from the 1978 American-Dutch exploitation film. Corman-produced B movie, about a peaceful resort is terrorized by monster piranhas let loose in the local rivers. Clearly a capitalization on the success of an earlier sea monster movie, "Jaws" (1975), and inspiration for similar films to follow, including.....
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Los Angeles: CBS Television Network, 1981. Wardrobe breakdown pages and shooting schedule for the 1981 television film which originally aired on October 24, 1981 on CBS. Archive belonging to an unknown crew member in the wardrobe department with holograph annotations on every page and 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is.....
![The Chosen [Holocaust 2000] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio...](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1594434846)
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film, here under the working title "Holocaust 2000." Laid in are additional 18 pages of production documents on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock. About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist, a fervent believer in the benefit of nuclear power to all.....
Los Angeles: Filmways, 1980. Vintage reference photograph from the 1980 film, showing director Brian De Palma and actress Angie Dickinson standing at the base of the stairs of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A defining De Palma film, suspenseful in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock, and opening with an homage to the famous shower scene in Hitchcock's "Psycho." The sixth of.....
New York: Pressman Williams, 1970. Draft script for the 1973 film. Copy belonging to cinematographer Gregory Sandor, with his name in holograph pencil on the verso of the title page, and holograph pencil annotations throughout. Danielle is a beautiful model separated from her conjoined twin, Dominique. When her neighbor, an aspiring journalist, suspects Danielle of a brutal murder, the horror of.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 US film. De Palma does "Rear Window" (sort of) in the breakthrough film that would signal his move toward both Hollywood and the psycho-sexual thrillers that would come to be his signature as much as his virtuosic visual style. A story set and shot on.....
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipe affixed on the verso. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. A doctor journeys to Africa with his wife, hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, with short creases.....
Beverly Hills, CA: Orion Pictures, 1989. Collection of 8 vintage full-color lobby cards from the 1991 film. This set dated 1989, two years before the film's official release, produced for press advertisement. Of note is a "tasty" image of Hopkins' bloody mouth, and a shot of director Demme surveying his work, with many images not seen in the film. Based.....
Culver City, CA: Tri-Star [TriStar] Pictures, 1988. Vintage reference photograph of director Pen Densham and Joanna Pacula on the set of the 1988 film. Jet-setter model Felice moves in with her long estranged sister, Hilary, and her family, intent on passing a voodoo curse onto Hillary's daughter, Amy. Set in Albany, New York, shot on location in Quebec, Canada. 10 x......
N.p. Gloria Films, 1972. Vintage borderless photograph from the 1972 film, showing Richard Burton and Raquel Welch in an eerie moment before a kiss. With holograph annotations in black marker and pencil, and three press agency stamps on the verso. Another addition to the many renditions of the Bluebeard tale in which the wealthy Baron von Sepper (Richard Burton) repeatedly.....
Los Angeles: Tony DiDio / Cal-Am Artists, 1977. Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Released theatrically in 1978, released on VHS in the early 1980s, subsequently labeled a "video nasty," and banned in the UK from 1982 to 2000. Quintessential exploitation film about a ski-masked maniac (Mitchell) who wreaks terror on the tenants of an apartment complex, dispatching victims.....
Paris: Film-Production Carl Dreyer, 1932. Vintage double weight matte finish French still photograph from the 1932 film. Shown is Rena Mandel as Gisele. "Vampyr" was a German-French co-production, and Dreyer, who maintained strict creative control over his films, has production companies in both Berlin and Paris. This photo was issued from the Paris office, with a label crediting Film-Production Carl.....
Burbank, CA: American Broadcasting Company [ABC], 1964. Revised Final script for Season 1 Episode 31 of the 1964-1966 television show "The Outer Limits," originally aired April 27, 1964 on ABC. Robert Duvall plays a disaffected CIA agent sent to infiltrate an alien flying saucer that has crash landed. He finds that the genetic material used to alter his appearance has.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Post-production script for the 1943 anthology film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the title page reading UF145. A three-part anthology film with supernatural stories, woven together by a conversation about the occult between two clubmen. The second of the three stories is based on Oscar Wilde's 1891 short story "Lord Arthur Savillle's Crime." White.....
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West Hollywood: Emery Pictures, 1984. Draft script for an unproduced film, with the word "canyon" spelled in Spanish instead of English on the title page. A teenager is killed in a car accident, only to come back as a vampire in order to protect his girlfriend from a serial killer. Untitled wrappers. Title page present, dated 1984, with credits for.....
Hollywood: Republic Productions, 1944. Shooting script for the 1944 film. Single holograph pencil notation to the front wrapper. A physician researching life-after-death is possessed by the spirit of an executed murderer, who uses the doctor's body to exact vengeance on those involved in his death. A Jekyll-and-Hyde-style supernatural horror B-movie, unusual for Republic Productions, who were better known for their Western.....
N.p. N.p., 1994. Collection of 17 reference photographs from the set of the 1995 film featuring Abel Ferrara, Lili Taylor, cinematographer Ken Kelsch, screenwriter Nicholas St. John, and other cast members, photographed in a single evening around Manhattan's Puck Building and Keith Haring's Pop Shop, by writer, editor, and filmmaker Shade Rupe. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives, these.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1983. Draft script for an unproduced Spanish film. Spanish language. "Satanik" written in holograph marker in a large stylized fashion on front wrapper. Stamp of Spanish film company "Copercines" on front wrapper. Title page stamped with "Filmoteca Nacional de Espana" (National Film Library of Spain) "Procedencia" (Origin) with the name Manzanos written in holograph ink, boxed below.....
N.p. Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1959 Hammer film. Based on the 1945 play by Barre Lyndon "The Man in Half Moon Street." 104 year old sculptor Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) maintains a youthful appearance by having a victim's parathyroid glands surgically replace his own, but his partner and friend Dr. Weiss (Arnold Marle) had a......
N.p. N.p., Circa 1958. Two vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1958 film. One with holograph pencil and ink annotations regarding layout on the verso. Based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Hammer Films’ first adaptation of the Dracula story, generally thought to be the finest of the studio’s many horror films to feature the Count, and simply one of the finest.....
N.p. Hammer Film Productions, 1970. Vintage studio still photograph from the 1966 film. Shown is Christopher Lee making a meal of Barbara Shelley. Hammer Film's third Dracula film and the second to feature Christopher Lee in the role. "Dracula: Prince of Darkness" follows "Horror of Dracula" (1958) and "The Brides of Dracula" (1960). Two couples, abandoned by their frightened coach driver.....
N.p. Hammer Film Productions, 1959. Collection of ten vintage photographs (two reference photographs and eight studio still photographs) from the 1959 film. Three photos shown. Please inquire for additional images. Although an ostensible remake of the hit 1932 Universal film, Hammer Film adaptation of this title borrowed its plot largely from Universal's "The Mummy's Hand" (1940) and "The Mummy's Tomb" (1942), with.....
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1979. Collection of eight studio still photographs from the 1958 film, struck and copyrighted 1979 from the original negatives. Three photographs shown, please inquire to see others. Hammer Film's second Frankenstein feature, "The Revenge of Frankenstein" was the sequel to "The Curse of Frankenstein," the 1957 adaptation of Mary Shelly's 1818 novel "Frankenstein." Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) escapes.....
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Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Copy belonging to studio secretary Marion Pecht, with her name in holograph pencil at the top right corner of the front wrapper. The sixth and final Inner Sanctum installment, featuring spiritualists, a haunted house, and a murder by suffocation, in what was seemingly a last gasp from the.....
London: Hammer Films, 1964. Two vintage studio still photographs from the 1964 film. Snipe affixed to the verso. Hammer Films produced this solid little thriller about a young woman haunted by her past. After witnessing her psychotic mother stab her father to death as a young girl, Janet is sent to a boarding school. Years later, she begins to experience.....
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N.p. Grafopress-Ciampino, 1975. Vintage Italian Locandina poster for the 1975 film, here under the title "Le Viziose." "Exorcisme" was released under a number of titles, including "Le Viziose," and "Exorcisme et Messes Noires," as well as an X-rated version, "Sexorcismes." Footage from "Exorcisme" was later re-edited in 1979 as "El Sadico de Notre-Dame." Jess Franco directs here under the pseudonym.....
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London: Strange Attractor Press, 2018. First Limited Edition, one of 500 non-numbered copies, as issued. With a sealed white card envelope containing a set of full-color postcards and an illustrated bookplate signed by author Stephen Thrower, with the currently unknown limitation number stamped in red at the bottom of the plate. Included with the limited edition, as called for, is.....
France: Champs-Elysees Productions / Lux Film, 1960. Archive of 19 borderless reference photographs from the 1960 film. Ten of the photographs depicting crew at work on the set, four of which feature director Franju. Three photographs with the stamp of photographer P. Brard on the verso. Based on the novel by Jean Redon, about a doctor who goes to horrific.....