horror

  • Behemoth the Sea Monster

    Behemoth the Sea Monster

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    This is a pretty decent monster on the rampage movie with some nice stop motion sequences and effects from Willis H. O’Brien, Irving Block, Louis DeWitt, Phil Kellison, Pete Peterson and Jack Rabin who all go uncredited. The UK’s answer to ‘Beast from 20,000 Fathoms’, with director Eugène Lourié at the helm again and London…

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  • I Don’t Want to be Born

    I Don’t Want to be Born

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    Yet another feature from our second contract with Rank Film Distributors. This  production from 1975 is also known as ‘The Monster’, ‘It Lives Within Her’ and ‘Sharon’s Baby’. Joan Collins, Eileen Atkins, Ralph Bates and Donald Pleasence are the stars of this ‘exorcist’ inspired tale of a woman who gives birth to a baby, a…

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  • The Woman Eeater

    The Woman Eeater

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    One of the titles we picked up from Stan Hart at Supreme Films situated in Old Compton Street. Not the greatest title, but the quality was very good…. better than the some other titles in the contract ‘The Trollenberg Terror’ and ‘Behemoth, The Sea Monster’.  Another label designed by Marianne Frost. Box art courtesy of…

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  • Movie Magazine #2: Hammer House of Horror

    Movie Magazine #2: Hammer House of Horror

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    Due to the surpeising success of ‘Movie Magazine No1’ issuing a second volume was a no brainer and as both Derek and I were big fans of the Hammer horrors it was decided that this would be the suject of number two. There were sequences from ‘Scars of Dracula’, ‘Horror of Frankenstein’, ‘Countess Dracula’, ‘Quatermass…

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  • Quatermass II

    Quatermass II

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    We’d issued The Quatermass Xperiment on standard 8 well before I’d joined the company and it had never been released on Super 8. Years later while on a business trip to Pinewood studios we’d bumped into an old friend and business colleague, I don’t remember the name, however he had the rights to a number…

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  • Plague of the Zombie

    Plague of the Zombie

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    This was one the titles chosen for our second contract with EMI. The contract was a trail blazer and contained some cracking titles, ‘Spare a Copper’, 1940; ‘Dracula Prince of Darkness’, 1966; ‘Quatermass and the Pit’, 1967; ‘The Lavender Hill Mob’, 1951; and ‘Godzilla Vs the Thing’, 1964, which was never released and was replaced…

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  • The Ghoul

    The Ghoul

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    This 1975 horror was directed by Freddie Francis and starred Peter Cushing, John Hurt, Alexandra Bastedo and Veronica Carlson. It was a title we picked up from Rank Film Distributors and for reasons I can’t recall, it took us some time to release.  Artwork from Marianne Frost. and a printed by yours truly. Label courtesy…

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  • Creatures From Beyond  

    Creatures From Beyond  

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    This 200′ short was the edited from the feature ‘Night of the Big Heat’ and had been available for several months prior to me joining the team in mid 1975. The label was introduced sometime in 1976.  Artwork from Marianne Frost and a printed by yours truly. Labels courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’  …

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  • Horror of Frankenstein

    Horror of Frankenstein

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    A title from our first EMI contract and in all truth not one of Hammers best Frankenstein outings, but the market was starved of Hammer horrors and this filled that gaping hole admirably. Atmospheric artwork from Marianne Frost and a label that I printed with some satisfaction. Labels courtesy of Peter Brooke at ‘SPROCKETS’  …

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  • The Dead of the Night

    The Dead of the Night

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    This 1945 horror drama was made by the studio that had given us so many wonderful comedies and has become a classic of this form of multi story genre, one that Amicus revived in 1965 with ‘Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors’. It was decided to completely omit the golfing tale altogether (for possible release as…

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