New York: Liveright, 1933. First Edition. Boldly INSCRIBED by the author opposite the title page: "Best wishes of / A. Merritt." Basis for the 1936 film, "The Devil Doll," directed by Tod Browning, written for the screen by Garrett Fort, Guy Endore and Erich von Stroheim, and starring Lionel Barrymore and Maureen O'Sullivan. Fine in a strong Very Good plus.....
![Hellbound [Voices] (Original screenplay for the 1994 film). Aaron Norris, Anthony Ridio Ian...](/pictures/thumb/141881.jpg?v=1638076186)
Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video / Cannon Films, 1994. Draft script for the 1994 film. Here under the working title, "Voices." Chuck Norris does his vigilante thing as no one else can in the this Cannon quickie, but with a horror twist. Two Chicago police officers are investigating the murder of a local Rabbi when their search leads them to.....
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 near Manhattan's Puck Building and Keith Haring's Pop Shop by filmmaker Shade Rupe. Struck in 2020 from Rupe's original negatives, these being the only.....
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two photographs from the 1915 film). Abel...](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck from the original negative circa 1936. With holograph annotations and agency stamps on the verso. Dr. Tube develops a powder that distorts reality after ingestion. He tests it out on himself, a dog, and a two couples. An early experimental film that uses distorted lenses and.....
Tokyo: Dentsu Music and Entertainment, 1992. Draft script for the 1993 film. Based on essays by Hyakken Uchida. Following World War II, a retired professor finds late in life that his quality of life is greatly reduced in war-torn Tokyo. Denying despair, he pursues writing and celebrates his birthday with a group of his adoring students. Yellow titled wrappers, perfect bound.....
Burbank, CA: A.J. Films, 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of actor Alain Delon, nude along with various members of the cast on a beach location during shooting of the 1973 film. With holograph annotations on the verso. After a breakup, Helene Masson (Annie Girardot) takes her vacation at a rejuvenation clinic run by Dr. Devilers (Alain Delon) and his partner Dr.....
Los Angeles: Carolco, 1987. Vintage photograph of Alan Parker and Mickey Rourke on the set of the 1987 film, sporting the fashions of the day. With holograph annotations and agency stamp on the verso. Private detective Harold Angel (Mickey Rourke) is hired by a mysterious Louis Cyphre (Robert De Niro) to track down the whereabouts of a popular singer, Johnny.....
![The Chosen [Holocaust 2000] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio...](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1638075908)
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1941 film, "Horror Island," along with a script for a "Double Bill Trailer" in which this film was featured with another George Waggner film of the same year, "Man Made [Man-Made] Monster." The latter film was based on a story called "The Electric Man," written by H......
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1963. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1963 film, showing director Alfred Hitchcock and screenwriter Evan Hunter walking along the pier which would be used later in the film for Melanie Daniel's (Tippi Hedren) visit to the Brenner farm, with what appears to be Hedren herself visible to the far left, in a fur coat at.....
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Collection of five vintage lobby cards from the French release of the 1960 US film. With the stamps of a French distributor on the versos. Far and away the highest grossing film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy awards, including Hitchcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key film in expanding allowable depictions.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1960. Vintage studio still photograph of director Alfred Hitchcock between takes on the set of the 1960 film, standing in front of the Bates Motel front porch set. Far and away the highest grossing and best known film of Hitchcock's career, nominated for four Academy Awards, including Hitchcock's fifth and final Best Director nomination, and a key.....
![Demonoid [Demonoid: Messenger of Death] (Two original photographs from the 1981 film). Alfredo...](/pictures/thumb/150753.jpg?v=1637907262)
N.p. American Panorama, 1981. Two vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1981 film. With holograph ink annotations on the bottom right corner of the recto, noting production No. 82-617. A British couple inadvertently release a demon from its ancestral home in a Mexican mine. Shot on location in California, Nevada, and Mexico. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Thrower, Nightmare.....
![The] Secret of My Success (Original photographs from the 1965 film). Andrew L. Stone, Stella...](/pictures/thumb/148068.jpg?v=1637907115)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1965. Vintage studio still photograph of Shirley Jones, Honor Blackman, and Lionel Jeffries from the 1965 film. Arthur Tate 's (James Booth) career takes an astounding leap from lowly constable to the ruler of a Banana Republic in South America, thanks to his mother (Amy Dalby), and three women: dressmaker Violet Lawson (Stella Stevens), Lily.....
![Blue Blood [Blueblood] (Original photograph from the 1973 film). Andrew Sinclair, Alexander...](/pictures/thumb/132849a.jpg?v=1637906972)
London: Mallard Productions, 1973. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1973 UK release of the 1973 English-Canadian film. Mimeograph snipe and cropping annotations on the verso. Oliver Reed stars as a satanic butler who kills his lord's son during his acid trip. 8 x 10 inches. Some toning and tiny corner creases, else Near Fine...
![Flesh for Frankenstein [Andy Warhol's Frankenstein] (Original pressbook for the 1973 film). Andy...](/pictures/thumb/152859.jpg?v=1638505569)
N.p. Bryanston Pictures, 1973. Vintage pressbook for the 1973 film. An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel, featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as Baron von Frankenstein, a man obsessed with creating a new Serbian race to obey his every command. Shot on location in Rome, Italy and Vojvodina, Serbia. Three pages, partially bound with a single.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1973. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1973 film. An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel, featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as Baron von Frankenstein, a man obsessed with creating a new Serbian race to obey his every command. Shot on location in Vojvodina, Serbia. 7 x 9.25 inches. Near Fine.....
![Flesh for Frankenstein [Andy Warhol's Frankenstein] (Original screenplay for the 1973 film). Andy...](/pictures/thumb/154484.jpg?v=1638078859)
New York: Sarx, 1972. Draft script for the 1973 film. Single holograph ink annotation to the title page, noting copy No. 3. Small typed note stapled to the bottom edge of the inside rear wrapper, noting the film's German title, "Fleisch fur Frankenstein." An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's classic 1818 novel, featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as.....
![Flesh for] Frankenstein (Collection of four original color photographs from the US release of the...](/pictures/thumb/150738.jpg?v=1637907251)
Beverly Hills, CA: Bryanston Pictures, 1974. Collection of four vintagestudio still photographs from the 1974 film. Three with the stamp of a Canadian film distributor on the verso. An X-rated, Andy Warhol-produced take on Mary Shelley's 1818 classic novel, featuring Warhol superstar Udo Kier as Baron von Frankenstein, a man obsessed with creating a new Serbian race to obey his.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. INSCRIBED to Richard Lupoff on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "For Dick Lupoff / Best of luck to a fellow Creature-Feature fan / Anne Rice / May, 1976." Anne Rice was still attending school in San Francisco at this time. The year also happened to be Lupoff's most prolific year.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the front flyleaf. Foxing to the top page edges, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine dust jacket.
N.p. Sundown Productions, Inc., 1988. Rainbow Second Draft script for the 1990 film. In a sleepy town, a colony of vampires live peaceably, with sunscreen and bottled synthetic blood to get by, until their blood making facility breaks down, leading one vampire to stage an uprising to resume feeding on humans. Shot on location in and around Moab, Utah. Blue titled.....
London: ITC Entertainment, 1979. Collection of 6 vintage full color British lobby cards from the 1979 international film. Produced in Italy, the UK, Brazil, and the US. Jewel heist gone wrong in piranha-infested waters, with a band of thieves struggling to find cohesion. Shot on location in Brazil. Hot on the tail of Joe Dante's satirical horror film, "Piranha," itself.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1943. Vintage keybook reference photograph of Arthur Lubin and camerman on a crane above the opera house audience from the 1943 film. Mimeo snipe on verso. Loosely based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux. The second Universal film based on the story, following Rupert Julian's 1925 silent film. Nominated for four Academy Awards and winning.....
![The] Phantom of the Opera (Original post-production screenplay for the 1943 film). Arthur Lubin,...](/pictures/thumb/146472.jpg?v=1638076660)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1943. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1943 film. With two small holograph notations to the first page. Loosely based on the 1910 novel. The second Universal film based on Gaston Leroux's story, following Rupert Julian's 1925 silent film. Nominated for four Academy Awards and winning two, including one for Best Cinematography. Set in Paris. White titled self wrappers.....
![Madhouse [There Was a Little Girl] (Original screenplay for the 1981 play). Arthur Marx, playwright](/pictures/thumb/147491.jpg?v=1638076916)
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: Triune Films, 1980. First Draft script for the 1980 horror film. Accompanying the script is a bi-fold two-color card program issued to the press upon the film's release. One of the strangest American horror films of 1980, largely unseen until a pair of restorations brought it back to light in the late 2010s. Featuring actress Barbara Bach during.....
![Haxan [Witchcraft Through the Ages] (Collection of 15 original photographs from the 1968...](/pictures/thumb/151342.jpg?v=1638078036)
N.p. N.p., Circa 1968. Collection of 15 vintage reference photographs from the 1968 rerelease of the film, a 76-minute version of the 1922 Scandinavian silent film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. A documentary-style horror anthology film charting the history of witchcraft in the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century, intersected with dramatized horror segments.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1970s. Draft script for an unproduced film. With holograph pencil annotations to the title page. In a small, majority Black bayou community in Louisiana, a white priest suffers a psychotic break which convinces him that he has been called by God to violently purge the community of all evildoers. Set in Louisiana. Beige titled wrappers, with credits.....
![Empire of the Ants [Empire of Ants] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Bert I. Gordon, H G....](/pictures/thumb/148808.jpg?v=1638077119)
N.p. N.p., 1976. Revised Draft script for the 1977 film, here with the slightly different working title "Empire of Ants." Loosely based on the 1905 short story by H.G. Wells. American International Pictures (AIP) third and final film in their H.G. Wells trilogy, beginning with "The Food of the Gods" (1976), directed and written by Bert I. Gordon and starring.....
![Earth vs. the Spider [The Spider] (Original screenplay for the 1958 film). Bert I. Gordon, George...](/pictures/thumb/145977.jpg?v=1638076528)
Los Angeles: American-International Pictures, 1958. Draft script for the 1958 film, here under the working title "The Spider." SIGNED by director Bert I. Gordon. With holograph pencil annotations throughout. Fodder for for an episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Season 4, Episode 13, Sept 14, 1991), where Gordon was resurrected as a master of bad taste. Small-town teenagers and their high.....
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.....
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1981. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1981 US film. A troubled tattoo artist (Dern) becomes obsessed with a model (Adams) he meets when he's hired to paint temporary tattoos on a group of women for a photo shoot. His obsession grows increasingly dangerous, and he is determined to leave his mark on the model forever.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1934. Vintage oversize reference photograph of actors Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff playing chess between takes on the set of the 1934 film. INSCRIBED by Karloff to the top right corner: "To Violet / with every good wish / Boris Karloff." Printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, along with the stamp of photographer Roman Freulich.....
N.p. Self published, 1978. Draft script for an unproduced film titled "Dracula," written and originally to have been directed by Ken Russell. Based on Bram Stoker's 1897 classic novel of vampire vengeance. Copy belonging to editor Rik Friday, who worked with Russell in post-production on "Altered States" (1980). Blue wrappers with paper spine label. Title page present, dated July 21.....
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.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1984. Vintage reference photograph of Brian DePalma on the set of the 1984 film. The fourth of a quartet of films made by Brian De Palma in the 1980s that paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock while adding elements of pop culture and the grotesque. "Body Double" was by far the funniest of these, though no less compelling.....
New York: Brut Productions / AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1973. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the US release of the 1973 UK film. Cropping annotations on the versos. Based on Lucille Fletcher's play, about Ellen Wheeler (Elizabeth Taylor), a rich widow recovering from a nervous breakdown. She witnesses a murder one day, but it appears that no one will believe.....
Universal City, CA: Steve Krantz Productions / American International Pictures [AIP], 1977. Third Revised Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on a story by producer Steve Krantz. Jennifer (Pelikan) is a young woman just entering a new private school, where the other students torment her to the breaking point. Her only course of action is revenge, which she enacts.....
London: National Broadcasting Company [NBC], Circa 1978. Collection of 8 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1978 release of the 1976 US television film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, with distributor rubber-stamps and cropping annotations. Mardi Gras is interrupted by African killer bees! Ben Johnson is cast as the local sheriff, and would reprise his tenure with the bees.....
![Scream [Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker] (Original screenplay for the 1981 film). Byron...](/pictures/thumb/149493.jpg?v=1638077389)
Burbank, CA: Cougar Films, LTD., 1979. Draft script for the 1981 film, here under the working title "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker." Annotations on several pages, in holograph marker and pencil, on all dialogue and action for the character Ross Walters, played by Greg Palmer. Laid in is a Call Sheet, dated for "Mon. May 12, 80," with annotations in holograph.....
London: John Lane, 1917. First Edition. A classic of horror fiction from Robbins, about a trio of circus freaks who escape captivity in the circus, open a curiosity shop, and use it as a base from which to launch a devastating crime wave. Basis for two films, the first a silent classic in 1925 directed by Tod Browning and starring.....
N.p. N.p., circa 1974. Two vintage borderless photographs of model and actress Caroline Munro, circa 1974. A successful career as a major model and cover girl quickly led Munro to small film roles in the late 1960s, such as "Casino Royale" and "Where's Jack?." By the early 1970s Munro was on contract to Hammer Films and became a full time actress.....
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.....
N.p. 5 Continents, 1976. Vintage oversize borderless studio still photographs from the 1976 film. Bizarre 1970s softcore sci-fi film about disembodied aliens from the dying planet Spermula who take the form of Earth women to collect semen to save their planet. featuring Udo Kier 9.5 x 12 inches. Very Good plus, pinholes at the corners else clean and bright.
London: London Weekly Television, 1980. Two Draft scripts for the 1981 television showcase "Dark Secret," which ran split into two episodes of "Sunday Night Thriller." This listing contains the combined Camera Script draft for both episodes, and the Film Script draft for the first half. Copies belonging to make-up artist Teresa Kelly, with her holograph name on the front wrapper.....
![Dracula A.D. 1972 [Dracula Today] (Original screenplay for the 1972 film). Peter Cushing...](/pictures/thumb/152753.jpg?v=1638078470)
London: Hammer Film Productions, Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1972 Hammer film, here under the working title "Dracula Today." An unusual contemporaneous Xerographic duplicated script, with copied line annotations on every page, except one script page and title page, with annotations in holograph marker on versos of last three pages. The seventh Hammer Dracula film, the sixth starring Christopher.....
Los Angeles: Paramount Pictures, 1965. Collection of eight vintage studio still photographs from the 1965 film. Two with printed mimeo snipes on the verso. Five passengers in a train carriage are joined by a mysterious doctor, who predicts the destinies of each passenger using his Tarot deck. Intended as a successor to "Dead of Night," a wildly successful Ealing Studios.....
London: Hammer Films, 1964. Collection of four vintage borderless reference photographs taken on the set of the 1964 film. One with a printed mimeo snipe specific to the film's German release affixed to the verso, noting the film's German title, "Die brennenden Augen von Schloss Bartimore." A small village in the early twentieth century is terrorized by Megaera the Gorgon, a......
Glendale, CA: Roy A. Squires, 1974-1977. First Xiccarph Editions, each copy number No. 20 of variously sized limitations, and each in the original publisher's titled envelope with the corresponding limitation number. Laid in to Volume Five is a "Notes to accompany The Fanes of Dawn and Seer of the Cycles ..." from publisher Squires regarding changes to design and type. Each.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1971. Vintage borderless reference photograph of director-actor Clint Eastwood and actress Donna Mills looking through the viewfinder of a Panavision camera on the set of the 1971 film. Mimeo snipe on the verso. A womanizing disc jockey's life is disrupted by the arrival of a young fan named Evelyn, whose amorous attentions become homicidal over the.....
Los Angeles: Morgan Creek Productions, Inc., 1990. Vintage studio still photograph of David Cronenberg from the 1990 film. Based on Clive Barker's 1988 novella "Cabal." Craig Sheffer stars as a man who stumbles upon an underground city of peaceful monsters, becoming a monster himself in the process, and who must help protect them from other humans including his serial killer.....
![Vampira [Old Dracula] (Collection of 74 original photographs from the 1974 film). Clive Donner,...](/pictures/thumb/152517.jpg?v=1638078428)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1973, 1974. Collection of 74 vintage photographs from the 1974 British film, 44 studio still photographs and 30 reference and promotional photographs, including one, on set photograph, of Clive Donner, David Niven, and Linda Hayden, all housed in archival sleeves and bound in a red leather three-ring binder. The vast collection includes photographs of David.....
![Vampira [Old Dracula] (Original photograph from the 1974 film). Clive Donner, Jeremy Lloyd,...](/pictures/thumb/152646.jpg?v=1637907353)
Culver City, CA: Columbia Pictures, 1974. Vintage studio still photograph featuring Teresa Graves and Peter Bayliss from the 1974 British film. Dracula, portrayed by the typically charming Niven, attempts to revive his great love, the Countess Vampira, by collecting blood from Playboy models touring his castle, but when Vampira awakens, she is now a powerful Black woman, in a delightful performance.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1971. Draft script an unproduced film by Curt Siodmak, based on his 1971 novel of the same name, about a scientist who discovers how to induce ESP in people. Sidomak was the screenwriter for such horror classics as "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "The Beast with Five Fingers" (1946), as well.....
N.p. N.p., 1982. Draft script for an unproduced play. A play about an author attempting to write a story starring Jack the Ripper. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), "Donovan's Brain" (1953), and many other science fiction and horror classics. His work consistently revealed an imagination that combined.....
N.p. N.p., 1986. Draft script for an unproduced film. Based on the 1964 novel by Curt Siodmak, with a typed letter SIGNED by Siodmak written to "Sid," discussing the possibility of joint European and American backing for the film. Curt Siodmak is best known for writing the "The Wolf Man" (1941), "I Walked with a Zombie" (1943), and "Donovan's Brain".....
![The Devil is a Woman [Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore] (Complete set of eight original color...](/pictures/thumb/150626.jpg?v=1638077838)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Complete set of eight vintage color studio still photographs from the 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 Rome.....
![The Devil is a Woman [The Tempter, Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore] (Collection of five original...](/pictures/thumb/150627.jpg?v=1637907184)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1975. Collection of five vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 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 new.....
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.....
New York: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1979. Original Program for the classic 1979 science fiction film. A striking program for what can easily be described as an essential Scott film, if not his finest. This deluxe program reflects Scott's use of H. R. Giger's alien designs throughout the film, with landscapes just as seemingly cold as the creatures that inhabit them, evolving.....
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1970. Collection of seven vintage studio still photographs from the 1970 film. Based on H. P. Lovecraft's 1929 short story. A young graduate student is stalked by a would-be necromancer, who hopes to use her as a pawn in an occult ritual. Set in the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts, and shot on location.....
Pittsburgh and Rome: ADC Films, 1992. Second Draft script for the 1993 film, INSCRIBED by screenwriter and author T.E.D. Klein, on the title page, "To Stanley - / Avoid this movie!!! / T.E.D. Klein." Theodore 'Eibon' Donald Klein (T.E.D. Klein) is an American horror writer and editor, who, despite his sparse output, is highly regarded for his meticulous prose and.....
N.p. UMC, 1970. Two vintage studio still photographs from the US release of the 1970 Italian film. With a stamp noting production No. 71-621 on the verso. A US expatriate witnesses the murder of an art gallery owner in Rome, and decides to find the culprit himself. Set and shot on location in Rome. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good, with.....
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.....
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.....
Universal City: Universal City Studios, 1983. Vintage reference photograph of David Cronenberg on the set of the 1983 film. Cronenberg's first release from a major Hollywood studio (Universal Pictures), a paranoid, surreal, disturbing masterpiece of body horror and a rumination on the potential malevolence of technology and mass media, one of most prescient and influential films of the 1980s. A......
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1969. Collection of eight vintage black and white studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune, but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic, murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1969. Collection of seven vintage color studio still photographs from the 1969 film. A young man and his girlfriend make plans to kill the man's aunt in the hopes of receiving her large fortune, but their nefarious plans are waylaid by the aunt's dozens of psychic, murderous cats. Shot in San Francisco. 10 x 8 inches. Very Good.....
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], 1977. Collection of four vintage oversize borderless double weight photographs from the 1977 film. All four with labels specific to the film's French release affixed to the bottom right corner of the recto, noting the film's French title, "Labyrinth Man." Three with provenance stamps on the verso, and one with the stamp of Cinemagence. David.....
Los Angeles: American Film Institute [AFI], Circa 1973. Vintage borderless photograph of director David Lynch, actor Jack Nance, and cinematographer Herbert Cardwell on the set of the 1977 film. holograph annotations on the verso. "Eraserhead," Lynch's first feature film, was was shot piecemeal on an AFI backlot in Los Angeles over a period of five years beginning in 1972. In.....
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.....
N.p. N.p., 1980. Draft script for the 1982 film. Title page contains "#40" written in holograph pencil on the upper right, likely a copy number, as well as several pages with annotations, again in holograph pencil, commenting, circling and striking scenes, action and dialogue. From the estate of film producer Elliott Kastner, whose best known credits include "The Long Goodbye”.....
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 revision pages bound in at the rear. 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 his name in holograph pencil or ink at the top right corner.....
London: Harbour Productions / Cineman Films, 1973. Collection of six vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1973 UK film. In a film tailor made for his unique screen presence, Price plays a Shakespearean actor who exacts bloody revenge on the critics who denied him an acting award, using scenes from the Bard's plays as inspiration for each murder. An undeniably.....
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.....
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1941. Draft script for the 1941 film. The 1941 version of "The Black Cat" is neither a remake of Edgar G. Ulmer's 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear much relation to the Edgar Allan Poe story (though, in fairness, neither did the 1934 version). It is more of a horror-comedy.....
N.p. Mid Century Films, 1951. Vintage post-production script for the 1951 film, trimmed at two edges and in a later supplied wrapper. A mysterious planet is on a collision course with earth when an extraterrestrial visits scientists stationed on a remote Scottish island. Yellow titled wrapper, supplied later. Title page present, dated September, 1951. 47 leaves, with last page of text.....
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1934. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the set of the 1934 film. Snipe in manual type on the verso, mentioning Karloff in "his latest picture for Universal, The Black Cat," and rubber stamps crediting photographer Roman Freulich, noting that the struck print is for an archive, and that the photo is.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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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.....
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Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1972. Draft script for the 1974 film, here seen under the working title "Deadly Honeymoon." A single holograph notation to the first page. Based on the 1967 novel Deadly Honeymoon by Lawrence Block, about a newlywed husband who seeks bloody revenge on a pair of killers after they beat him unconscious and assault his bride.....
N.p. N.p., Circa 1981. Vintage borderless reference photograph from the 1981 film, showing actress Lynn Hancock. An unpopular, orphaned military cadet seeks revenge on his bullies by summoning demonic spirits through his computer. Shot on location in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles. 8 x 10 inches. Near Fine. Nightmare USA.
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1944. Vintage photograph from the 1944 film. Universal Pictures' follow up to "Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man," ups the ante on its predecessor with the addition of Dracula (John Carradine), a mad scientist (Boris Karloff) and a hunchback (J. Carroll Naish). Glenn Strange takes up the role of the creature (the fourth actor to play the part).....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1946. Post-production Continuity and Dialogue script for the 1946 film. With a single holograph pencil annotation to the first page. A reporter believes a long-dead woman's soul has been reincarnated into a black cat, which seeks justice for her wrongful death. Yellow titled wrappers, noted as CONTINUITY AND DIALOGUE / MASTER COPY on the front wrapper, noted as.....
Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1945. Vintage photograph of Onslow Stevens lighting Lon Chaney, Jr.'s way up a macabre stone stairway from the 1945 film. The last entry in Universal's famed "monsters" canon, a direct sequel to 1944's "House of Frankenstein," which appropriately hosted Universal's "big three" monsters, all in Dracula's house, including the Prince of Darkness himself (John Carradine), the.....
N.p. King Brothers [Bros.] Productions, 1961. Two vintage reference photographs from the 1961 US Poverty Row film, an attempt by the notorious King Brothers to capitalize on the fame Toho Studios "Godzilla" films in Japan. With a mimeo snipe on the verso. Sailors on a salvage ship capture a giant lizard and sell it to a London circus, leading the.....
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.....
Paris: Ferenczi, 1935. First French Edition, preceding all others. Text in French. According to "Zombies," Julien Betan and Raphael Colon's comprehensive 2009 survey of the sub-genre, Miomandre's novel represents the first modern zombie novel, while 2015's "Z pour Zombies" by Bernard Perron, Antonio Dominguez Leiva, and Samuel Archibald notes "part of the novel takes place in the head of the.....
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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.....