Originally posted on Craig’s List, the 6-foot image found its way to Heritage, where it sold for $358,500 in March 2015. A magnificent Style C three sheet for Frankenstein (1931) was discovered when an adventurous film buff, looking for old equipment, excavated a long-boarded up projection booth on Long Island. The consignor of London after Midnight had inherited movie posters from a grandfather who once worked in a theater. New discoveries come with interesting tales. Posters are ephemeral paper, victims of neglect, fire and the ravages of time. Long hidden in a boarded-up projection room, a 6-foot-high three-sheet poster for the 1931 Universal horror classic ‘Frankenstein’ sold for $358,000 earlier this year. Earlier the same year, a one-sheet poster for Chaney’s 1925 The Phantom of the Opera – one of only four known – brought $203,150 that example had formerly been in the collection of actor Nicholas Cage who has made his own contributions to the horror genre. The silent moving picture is now lost, but the poster lived on. Late in 2014, Heritage Auctions in Dallas achieved a record price of $478,000 for a unique full-color stone litho one sheet poster for London after Midnight (1927) starring noted make-up master Lon Chaney (1883-1930) in the dual role of monster and Scotland Yard inspector. At the top of everyone’s wish list are the chilling horror films of the silent 1920s and early 1930s. Possessed by specialist passion, buyers are willing to pay ever higher prices for the most sought-after titles. Demand for rarities rules the marketplace. Heritage Auctions imageĭALLAS – Collectors of horror movie posters relish that frisson of terror generated by classic monsters. Talented poster artist Reynold Brown depicted the beautiful heroine forcibly rejecting the Gill Man’s romantic overtures. This mint condition one-sheet poster for ‘Creature from the Black Lagoon’ (1954) brought over $25,000 at auction.
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