![]() ![]() While posters were the primary way to advertise a film during the age of radio, and even at the dawn of television, the audience and the industry viewed these advertisements as entirely disposable. That rate of survival is pretty typical for horror posters, and other genres haven’t fared much better.Īs soon as poster collecting became fashionable, the scarcity of older titles was always going to be an issue. Sotheby’s The Mummy is one of only three known to exist (one of which is owned by Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett, an avid horror poster collector). The utter scarcity of these posters adds greatly to their value. Even people who don’t know horror have a sense of who Bela Lugosi is, as well as Boris Karloff, and they know Dracula, Frankenstein and The Mummy,” said James Kendrick, professor in the Department of Film & Digital Media at Baylor University. “The Universal cycle of horror movies is ingrained into popular culture. ![]() Part of their appeal is of course their cultural currency -early horror movie quotes, costumes and characters are among the best remembered and mimicked movie motifs today. ![]()
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