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Campaign Manual for the Realart reissue of Universal's 1941 Classic, THE WOLFMAN starring Lon Chaney and Bela Lugosi.  This was signed in 1980 by the film's writer Curt Siodmak,

 

John Andrews played The Wolfman in Ed Wood's Orgy of the Dead.

 

I added another cast member from the super low budget film Robot Monster - Selena Royale (Mother)

- Resident Evil: Afterlife

  Milla's hero metal knife
   

 

Wesker's regeneration pod with blood stains.

 

Hard rubber throwing star.

Celebrity Signings - John Carpenter

 May 1, 2010. I met one of my all time favorite movie directors- John Carpenter. He is perhaps most famous for directing the original Halloween (1978) but I am a huge fan of The Thing from 1982 and They Live from 1988. I met him at The Texas Frightmare Weekend in Dallas and I think it was his first convention appearance. He was very cool and signed this artist print of the monster from The Thing and even wrote the most remembered line from the film "You gotta be fucking kidding!"

 

 This is an original 8x10 still from The Thing that was printed in 1982 to hang in the lobby of a movie theater. I purchased this still and several others over a month before meeting John Carpenter. I knew that if he signed in black across the white ice, the contrast would be great. I also asked him to write the tagline from the film.

 

 I once bought an autographed sketch of a Halloween Jack-O-Lantern by John Carpenter. Please read the article I wrote about collecting celebrity sketches and artwork. When I met him, I couldn't resist asking for a spider head sketch from The Thing

 

 Another nice original 8x10 from The Thing. John Carpenter signed in the dark area with silver marker and he wrote another great movie line. The conventions only had portraits of John Carpenter to sign so I am glad that I planned ahead and brought these for his autograph.

 

   

 

   

 

   

Horror Conventions

 Last weekend I did another display at The Monster Bash in Butler, PA. Since I flew from TX to PA, I decided not to bring any fragile, latex props. This photo shows my Vincent Price display:
  • Screen matched painting from Dr. Goldfoot and The Bikini Machine
  • Vincent's script from This Is Your Life, Vincent Price
  • Horror Hall of Fame award presented to Price by Roddy McDowell
  • 2 Letters that Price wrote while filming Pit and the Pendulum
  • Several photos from his estate with Price's handwriting on the back
  • The first drawing of a fly by Price
  • Original artwork by Vampira of Price from her "People I have Known Series"
This table displayed:
  • The only surviving machete used in Astro-Zombies (fans of Ted V Mikels loved holding it for a photo
  • Critter used in several films that had weights to make it wobble when rolled.
  • Neanderthal Man's wig, original art, and Keybook still from my old friend Harry Thomas
  • 11x14 photo hand signed by Lon Chaney Jr.
  • Ackermuseum treasures
More Vincent Price estate items:
  • Theater of Blood and Comedy of Terrors cast photos (Price wrote the name of each actor on the back)
  • Unpublished photo of Price with Elvira
  • 4 watercolor paintings by Price

And:

  • Peter Cushing's script from At The Earth's Core (packed with his notes and artwork)
  • 2 orignal carbon letters from Bela Lugosi and Ed Wood
  • 2 rare photos from Monster that Challenged The World
Bela Lugosi estate items:
  • Standing up are 3 pages from Lugosi's personal newspaper clipping scrapbook
  • 4 original 11x14 photos
  • Christmas card from Bela Lugosi to Dolores Fuller and Ed Wood
  • 8x10 signed by Lugosi to Alex and Richard Gordon
Boris Karloff estate items:
  • Guestbook from Arsenic and Old Lace
  • 8x10 from "The Raven" hand signed by Karloff with his character name "Bateman"
  • Orig 11x14 from Bride of Frankenstein
  • Orig 11x14 from The Mummy once part of Jack Pierce's scrapbook
  • Other Karloff estate photos. I still have a few for sale at $10-25 each so email me at moviemonstermuseum@gmail.com