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... (read more)
![Ultraviolet - Episode 2: In Nomine Patris [Crossing the Line] (Original screenplay for the 1998 television episode). Joe Ahearne, Jack Davenport Idris Elba, Susannah Harker, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/135816.jpg?v=1492979179)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Filmworks, 1982. Working Draft script for the low-budget 1985 film. Predicting the contemporary advent of vigilante hackers who blur the lines of legality in the name of justice, this film depicts a masked secret society of hackers on a college campus who personally dispense punishment to those they deem guilty of crimes. Set on a small college campus... (read more)
London: EMI Film Distributors Ltd., 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... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1977. Original treatment 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. The... (read more)
![Tenebre [Tenebrae] (Original program for the 1982 film, international edition). Dario Argento, Christian Borromeo Anthony Francios, Veronica Lario, Mirell D'Angelo, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/137182b.jpg?v=1492979525)
Rome, Italy: Intrafilms, 1982. Original program for the 1982 film, "Tenebre," here under the title used for distribution in the United Kingdom, "Tenebrae." This is an international edition, used for distribution of the film in various European countries, with English, French, German, and Spanish text. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-color photographs from the film, including a gatefold. Argento's thriller film... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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 (20 x 25 cm)... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989. First Draft script for the 1990 film. Based on director 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 therapist. This version of the... (read more)
![The Return of Chandu [the Magician] (Original Pressbook). Maria Alba Bela Lugosi, Sol Lesser, starring, producer.](/pictures/thumb/121914.jpg?v=1434404410)
Los Angeles: Sol Lesser Productions / Principal Distributing Corporation, 1934. Original pressbook for the 1934 film. This feature was not only composed by editing together the first 4 chapters of the same-titled 12-chapter serial (the last 8 chapters were released as "Chandu on Magic Island" in 1935), but in this case the episodes were specifically written so that, spliced together... (read more)
London: Amicus Productions, Circa 1970. Draft script for the 1971 film. SIGNED by screenwriter Robert Bloch on the title page in 1982. Brief notations 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... (read more)
N.p. N.p., 1983. Original treatment 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 past... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: N.p., N.p. Treatment script for an unproduced film. A monster comedy in which a life insurance salesman stumbles upon a welcoming subdivision of undead monsters. Set in the suburbs of Los Angeles. Blue titled wrappers. Title page present, with credits for screenwriter Bob Kaufman. 16 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Fine, wrapper Near Fine bound with two gold brads..... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1976. Draft script for the 1977 film. Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) is tormented with nightmares four years after her exorcism. The demon still hides within her, and Vatican priest Father Philip Lamont (Richard Burton) is assigned to investigate the death of her exorcist to learn more about the demon. Shot on location in Arizona, New York... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1942. Revised temporary 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. Tan titled wrappers, noted as REVISED TEMPORARY on... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1935. Collection of 4 vintage single weight reference photographs from the set of the 1935 film. One photo is a warm, candid shot of actors Jean Hersholt and Elizabeth Allan on the set, with a mimeograph snipe on the verso noting the film under its working title, "Vampires of Prague." The other three photos are... (read more)
![The Revolt of the Dead [The Revolt of the Savage] (Original treatment for an uproduced film). Tod Browning, Gerrit Lloyd Gouverneur Morris, story, screenwriters.](/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 notations in pencil on one page, and in blue pencil on two pages. Story set in Africa, where an..... (read more)
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... (read more)
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) throughout. Bound in at the rear are a crew list (humorously titled "Crue List") 2-page cast list, a "suppliers" list, a weather information... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1986. First Draft script for the 1986 film. An early draft, attributed solely to James Cameron as screenwriter (Walter Hill would later provide revisions). Copy belonging to special effects designer Colin Cantwell, who worked prior to this film on "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) and "Star Wars" (1975), with his name in black marker on the... (read more)
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... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1939. Post-production Continuity and dialogue script for the 1939 horror film. Self-wrappers, production No. 946, dated April 29, 1939, with credits for director Joe May, and William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Alan Dinehart, Harvey Stevens, and Walter Woolf King. 125 leaves, mimeograph. Pages Near Fine, wrapper Near Fine, with a hint of toning... (read more)
![Night Shadows [Mutant] (Original screenplay for the 1984 film). John Cardos, Michael Jones Peter Z. Orton, John C. Kruize, Cary Guffey Lee Montgomery, Bo Hopkins, Wings Hauser, director, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/139199.jpg?v=1492980206)
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 notations throughout, in holograph ink. Stewart is notable for having also worked on... (read more)
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... (read more)
Los Angeles: 187 Corp / Artisan Entertainment, 1993. Shooting script for the 1993 television film. An anthology film directed by two masters of horror, Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter, and sporting a cameo by a third, Wes Craven. Three separate vignettes, each with increasing tension, and featuring many celebrity cameos. John Carpenter was commissioned by The Showtime Network to compete... (read more)
![Someone's Watching Me [High-Rise] (Original screenplay for the 1978 television movie). John Carpenter, Lauren Hutton Adrienne Barbeau, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/130336.jpg?v=1492802383)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1978. Final Shooting script for the 1978 television movie "Someone's Watching Me!," here under the early working title, "High-Rise." Airing on NBC in the same year as Carpenter's runaway hit "Halloween," made-for-television thriller "Someone's Watching Me!" still has the typical Carpenter characteristics, in which a woman being stalked in her ultra-modern high rise apartment must confront her... (read more)
Moore Park,Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1980. Collection of seven vintage photographs of director John Carpenter with writer Debra Hill and actors Adrienne Barbeau, and Jamie Lee Curits on the set of the 1980 film. With holograph notations on both recto and verso. Carpenter's followup to his breakthrough hit "Halloween," about paranormal events that begin happening when a mysterious fog descends on a.... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Ealing Green: Ealing Studios, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 British horror anthology film. Original typescript and carbon typescript leaves bound throughout. Studio file copy, rubber-stamped SCENARIO DEPARTMENT on the front wrapper. Brief notations throughout in holograph pencil. An architect named Walter (Johns) hosts a party with guests that he has never met but has seen in dreams. He is... (read more)
![Mockery [Terror] [The Harelip] (Original screenplay for the 1927 film). Lon Chaney, Benjamin Christensen, Joseph Farnham Bradley King, Barbara Bedford, starring, story writer director, screenwriters.](/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... (read more)
london: Vestron Pictures Ltd., Circa 1988. Vintage black-and-white still photograph from the 1988 UK release of the 1988 US film. Steve Buscemi has Jennifer Jason Leigh in a stranglehold! Carol (Leigh) inherits her weird uncle's night club, where she starts to remember the disturbing relationship she had with him that she had repressed. Creepy, and visually stimulating, with taps dripping blood... (read more)
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 stitched, 9.5 x 14 inches. A couple of tiny closed tears, and a hint of rubbing, else Near Fine. (read more)
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... (read more)
London: Hammer Films, 1971. Draft script for the 1972 British horror film. A brooding, dissonant film entry in the great Hammer canon of the 1970s, about a naive young woman who travels from Liverpool to London thinking she is going to meet the man of her dreams, only to wind up with a psychotic killer. Green wrappers, with a die-cut... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Culver City Studio / United Artists, 1980. Revised Draft script for the 1980 film. Vincent (Calhoun) is the proprietor of a hotel, where he and his family bring kidnapped victims and bury them alive in a garden. The victims are kept alive and fattened up for the meal they are to become: Farmer Vincent's Fritters. A low-budget... (read more)
![Deadly Friend [Friend] (Original screenplay for the 1986 film). Wes Craven, Diana Henstell, Bruce Joel Rubin, Kristy Swanson Matthew Labyorteaux, Anne Twomey, Michael Sharrett, director, novel, screenwriter.](/pictures/thumb/129193.jpg?v=1533577557)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1985. First Draft script for the 1986 film. Based on the 1985 novel "Friend" by Diana Henstell. Teenage science genius Paul (Laborteaux) builds a robot called BB and garners friendships with the local paperboy (Sharrett), and the girl next door (Swanson), whom he subsequently falls in love with. His robot is destroyed by a cranky old... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer [MGM], 1977. Draft script for the 1978 film. Based on the novel of the same name by Robin Cook. This early Crichton film plays on a powerful combination of a fear of hospitals and of certain real elements of the medical industry, depicting a decidedly feminist protagonist who discovers a black market organ harvesting plot and... (read more)
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.... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Montreal: Canadian Film Development Corporation [CFDC], 1975. Collection of three vintage borderless photographs from the 1975 film. With holograph notations 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 (17.75 x 12.75 cm). Near Fine. Arrow 1497. Canuxploitation Complete. Weldon 1983. (read more)
Los Angeles: Columbia Broadcasting System [CBS], 1974. Post-production Export script for the 1974 television movie. Represents the full European version screened in the UK upon release. An edited version later screened in the US on television only. Written by noted novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson. Pink and blue clip-bound titled wrappers, noting 10 reels and footage of 8,957 feet. Mechanically reproduced. Near Fine. 145 leaves. (read more)
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 notations 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... (read more)
![House of the Black Death [The Widderburn Horror] (Original screenplay for the 1965 film). Harold Daniels, Reginald Le Borg Jerry Warren, Richard Mahoney, Lora Crozetti, Lon Chaney John Carradine, Andrea King, Jr., director, directors, screenwriter, novel, starring.](/pictures/thumb/140926.jpg?v=1492980634)
Los Angeles: Medallion Pictures, circa 1965. Draft script for the 1965 film "House of the Black Death," seen here under the title "The Widderburn Horror." Based on the novel "The Widderburn Horror" by Lora Crozetti. A bizarre Poverty Row second feature (the only script we've ever seen from Medallion Pictures) starring Lon Chaney, Jr. and John Carradine as two warlock... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1989. ? (read more)
Los Angeles: AVCO Embassy Pictures, 1981. Collection of 3 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1984. Collection of eight vintage color still photographs from the 1984 film. The film’s mix of horror and comedy, which surprised audiences looking for family oriented holiday fare from producer Steven Spielberg, led, along with Spielberg’s "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," directly to the creation of the MPAA’s PG-13 rating. 8 x 10 inches..... (read more)
Los Angeles: Comworld Pictures, 1980. Draft script for the 1983 film. Seen here under the title "Bump in the Night." A low-budget slasher in which a group of friends go camping in the woods only to find that someone has begun picking them off (spoiler alert: it's one of the camper's mothers). Originally shot in 1981, the film would be... (read more)
![Dark Night of the Scarecrow [The Night of the Scarecrow] (Wardrobe department archive for the 1981 television film, with Polaroids tipped in throughout). Frank De Felitta, Butler Handcock J D. Feigelson, Robert F. Lyons Charles Durning, Tonya Crowe, Lane Smith, Claude Earl Jones, director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143723.jpg?v=1541362779)
Los Angeles: CBS, 1981. Shooting schedule and wardrobe breakdown script 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 notations on every page throughout. 94 Polaroid photographs tipped onto pages throughout. A cult classic. Charles "Bubba" Ritter (Larry Drake) is wrongfully accused... (read more)
![Holocaust 2000 [The Chosen] (Original screenplay for the 1977 film). Alberto De Martino, Ennio Morricone, Michael Robson Sergio Donati, Martin Herbert, Michael Nelson, Simon Ward Kirk Douglas, director, composer, screenwriters, starring.](/pictures/thumb/133020.jpg?v=1418081486)
Moore Park, Australia: Embassy Pictures, 1977. Draft script for the 1977 British film. Laid in are additional 18 pages on legal size blue, pink, and goldenrod stock, including call sheets, unit arrivals and agenda, movement order, schedule, revised schedule, Italian personnel accommodation list, and a cast list, About as good as 1970s exploitation gets. Kirk Douglas is a wealthy industrialist... (read more)
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... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Bryan Foy Productions / Warner Brothers, 1953. Vintage oversize borderless black-and-white double weight matte finish photograph by Jack Woods from the US release of the 1953 film. A classic image from the film, with Vincent Price's vengeful, murderous shadow overtaking a terrified Phyllis Kirk. 11.5 x 9.5 inches. Pinholes at the corners, else Very Good plus. Complete collation details available on request. (read more)
Universal City, CA: Unviersal International Pictures, 1960. Collection of six vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1960 film. Mimeo snipes affixed on the versos. Based on a story by Ben Pivar and Francis Rosenwald. Dr. Paul Talbot (Terry) journeys to Africa with his aging wife, June (Gray), hoping to obtain an anti-aging drug promised him by a native woman. With... (read more)
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... (read more)
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 notations 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... (read more)
Los Angeles: Tony DiDio Corp. / 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... (read more)
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... (read more)
Milan: Poligono Societa Editrice, 1948. Later printing. Book three in the second series of "Biblioteca Cinematografica" publications, each focusing on a different film. The complete screenplay for Dreyer's 1932 film, his first sound feature, profusely illustrated with stills from the film throughout. Text in Italian. Very Good in illustrated wrappers. Wrapper chipped overall, with bruise to the front wrapper, and... (read more)
London: Jupiter Books, 1979. Thin quarto. First Edition. Near Fine and unread in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Spine ends lightly bumped, and a touch of soil at the top edge of the front board. Jacket extremities lightly rubbed, with a tiny chip at the bottom edge of the rear panel, and a hint of laminate lift at the... (read more)
Canada: Aeteas, circa 1975. Draft script for the 1975 film. Later generation photocopy, not vintage, for reading or research purposes only. Ilsa runs a Nazi death camp that conducts human experiments based on the idea that women can suffer and endure more pain than men and thus should be allowed to serve on the front line. A film which blurs... (read more)
Toronto: Copperheart Entertainment, 1999. Fifth Draft for the 2000 film. Letter attached from the letter head of producer Steve Hoban addressing Gordon Smith at special effects house, FX Smith about potentially working together on the project, holograph pencil and ink notation recto and verso. Synopsis included, all bound by single banker's clip. Director John Fawcett convinced screenwriter Karen Walton to... (read more)
London: Hammer Films, 1961. Vintage photograph from the 1961 film. With holograph notations on the verso. Based on the 1933 novel "The Werewolf Of Paris" by Guy Endore. Set in Eighteenth Century Spain. A child is adopted by a wealthy man and his maid who learn years later that he is in fact a werewolf whose only chance of breaking... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1944. Draft script for the 1945 film. Studio file copy, with "Central Files" in holograph pencil on 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 studio's film series. Sadly, the film's failure superseded its... (read more)
![[Inner Sanctum] Pillow of Death (Post-production script for the 1945 film). Wallace Fox, George Bricker, Dwight V. Babcock, Clara Blandick Lon Chaney, director, screenwriter, story writer, starring.](/pictures/thumb/128918A.jpg?v=1418080460)
Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1945. Post-production Continuity & Dialogue script for the 1945 film. 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 studio's film series. Sadly, the film's failure superseded its potential, even with all the right elements of a chilling... (read more)
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... (read more)
Middlesex: Amicus Productions, Circa 1971. Draft script for the 1972 British film. Based on the comic book series by Al Feldstein amd William M. Gaines, published by EC Comics from 1950 to 1955. In a pun-filled style of ironic horror, told in a series of episodes, the film stars Sir Ralph Richardson as the cheery Crypt Keeper who spins tales... (read more)
Culver City, CA: Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985. Collection of 8 vintage color double weight still photographs from the 1985 film, a US-UK co-production. Inspired by the Burke and Hare case of 1828, a story of two graverobbers who dig up corpses, and eventually begin to commit murder in order to provide an ongoing supply of bodies for a doctor who teaches... (read more)
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... (read more)
Paris: Champs-Elysees Productions, 1960. Vintage Belgian theatre poster for the 1960 French film. Based on the novel by Jean Rendon. Prompting controversy with its release, despite efforts during production to minimize offensive and grotesque content, Franju's classic French horror film envisions the extreme lengths a guilty surgeon will go in order to restore his daughter's horribly disfigured face. 14 x.... (read more)
Hollywood: Paramount Pictures, 1966. Two vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1966 film. Both are reference photographs featuring director Frankenheimer on the set: one from a scene at the beach with his shooting crew, the other in a social setting with the film's star Rock Hudson. Middle-aged banker Arthur Hamilton is given the opportunity to start a completely new life... (read more)
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1972. Vintage oversize borderless double weight black and white photograph from the 1972 film. An amazing image, showing Max von Sydow looming above--and seemingly beyond--a very possessed young Linda Blair. One of the great genre films of the 1970s that accomplished the uncommon feat of being an over-the-top sensation upon its release and gaining subsequent status... (read more)
![City of the Living Dead [Paura nella citta dei morti viventi] (Collection of 10 original photographs from the 1980 film). Lucio Fulci, Dardano Scachetti, Catriona MacColl Christopher George, screenwriter director, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143088.jpg?v=1541282496)
Rome: Dania Film, 1980. Collection of 10 vintage borderless color photographs from the 1980 film. Most with brief holograph notations on the verso. A reporter and a psychic try to close the gates of Hell after a priest's suicide on holy ground causes the dead to rise, from the "godfather of gore" Fulci. 9.5 x 7 inches (24 x 18 cm). Fine. Arrow 1459. Blue Underground. Weldon 1996. (read more)
London: FAB Press, 1999. First Edition. One of 693 copies (this being No. 426) SIGNED by Stephen Thrower. A typically exhaustive and definitive production by Thrower, covering every imaginable aspect of the great director's canon. Along with Mario Bava and Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci is considered one of the fathers of the "giallo" style of filmmaking, beginning with Westerns and... (read more)
Beverly Hills, CA: United Artists / Caralan Productions Ltd., 1961. Draft script for the 1961 British horror film, here under the working title "The Lady is a Snake," with the release title in holograph pencil on the front wrapper. Though made in the UK, the film was a US co-production, and this is a US draft of the script, noting... (read more)
![The Madness of Dr. Tube [La Folie du Docteur Tube] (Two original photographs from the 1915 film). Abel Gance, Albert Dieudonne, screenwriter director, starring.](/pictures/thumb/144596.jpg?v=1544116790)
France: Le Film d'Art, 1915. Photograph from the 1915 French experimental short film, struck circa 1936. With holograph notations 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 mirrors to create special... (read more)
![Mind Ripper [Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost] (Original screenplay for the 1995 film, round robin copy signed Lance Heriksen, director Joe Gayton, and many others). Joe Gayton, Jonathan Craven, Wes Craven, Phil Mittleman, Giovanni Ribisi Lance Henriksen, John Diehl, director, producer screenwriter, producer, screenwriter, starring.](/pictures/thumb/143834.jpg?v=1529008216)
Beverly Hills, CA: Outpost Productions / Multicom Entertainment, 1994. Revised Shooting script for the 1995 film "Mind Ripper," seen here under the title "Wes Craven Presents: The Outpost." Round robin copy, SIGNED on the front wrapper by director Joe Gayton, producers Jonathan Craven and Peter Shepherd, cast members Lance Henriksen, Adam Solomon, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Giovanni Ribisi, and Dan Blom... (read more)
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 notations. Mardi Gras is interrupted by African killer bees! Ben Johnson is cast as the local sheriff, and would reprise his tenure with the bees... (read more)
New York: Cannon, 1972. Draft script for the 1972 film, here under the working title "Zora." Something of an arthouse predecessor to what became a cavalcade of holiday slasher and horror films. The film's cult status was helped by featuring Warhol superstars Mary Woronov, Candy Darling, and Ondine, experimental film icon Jack Smith, and artist Susan Rothenberg, as well as... (read more)
London: Marron Films Ltd., Circa 1974. Collection of 4 vintage black-and-white still photographs from the 1974 UK release of the 1973 US film. Mimeograph snipes affixed to the versos, and 1 still with cropping notations. A horror-comedy, about a reporter who has had an affair with the daughter of the US President. He is sent to Hungary, where he... (read more)
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.... (read more)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1962. Original Pressbook for the 1962 film, double-billed with "Invasion of the Star Creatures" (1962). "The Brain That Wouldn't Die": a doctor keeps his girlfriend's head alive by experimenting with brain transplants, and he goes hunting for a new body. "Invasion of the Star Creatures": two soldiers discover a crater where beautiful vixen aliens... (read more)
New York: Rinehart, 1949. Advance Copy, preceding the First Edition. An uncommon state of the second of Gresham's two novels, written 3 years after "Nightmare Alley," an examination of the lives of the inhabitants of the ninth floor of a city hospital, where the most seriously diseased patients are gathered. Very Good in publisher's illustrated wrappers (the same design as... (read more)
New York: Rinehart, 1949. First Edition. The second of Gresham's two novels, written 3 years after "Nightmare Alley," an examination of the lives of the inhabitants of the ninth floor of a city hospital, where the most seriously diseased patients are gathered. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is very slightly faded at the spine, with a.... (read more)
Los Angeles: American International Pictures [AIP], 1973. Original Pressbook for the 1973 film "Scream Blacula Scream." The sequel to the infamous 1972 film "Blacula" was every bit as appealing an entry into the Blaxploitation canon of the 1970s as its predecessor, enjoyable as both an escapist horror entertainment and cultural comedy. It even one-ups the other films in its category by... (read more)
Universal City, CA: Dino De Laurentiis Company, Circa 1976. Vintage borderless black-and-white double single reference still photograph from the 1976 film. Fifth in the "Kong" series of films, and the second to be titled simply "King Kong." Fred Wilson (Grodin), an oil magnate from Petrox Oil, is looking for new petroleum deposits on a recently discovered Pacific island. Jack Prescott... (read more)
Burbank, CA: British Lion / Warner Brothers, 1973. Original pressbook for the 1975 US release of the 1973 UK film. 11 x 14 inches (28 x 36 cm). Eight pages, saddle stitched. Lightly soiled and Near Fine. Weldon 1983. (read more)