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The Shock-O-Rama Poster Show 2023 Special Edition: Top 10 Poster Purchases of 2023

 

Welcome back! It's getting to be that time o' the year again. A new year is right around the corner and it's time us to reflect on all of the goodness that came our way during the year. Despite the fact that much of what is shown here is on linen (Groan...), the year still ended up being much better for me than it had any right to be. 

So, let's quite the dilly-dallying and go take a gander. Shall we?  Here are the top 10 faves o' mine that I added in 2023:

Runner up) THE MAZE (3-D on linen):

While not the most exciting of posters (Yes, it’s kind of dull.), it’s a vintage 3-D move poster from the first wave in the 1950s. Yahoo! Despite being on linen, it’s still a great find. This actually WAS included in my Top 10 for the year until another poster came along at the last minute that I like better. Instead of cutting it out, I just gave it the title of “runner up”.  I’m still thrilled to have it.

10) DEEP RED: 

This should probably be further down the list as I have been after one of these forever. But why dicker? It made the list, didn’t it? Hooray!


9) THE LAND UNKNOWN (linen):
Yowza!!! This is such a cool poster. What a nice end-of-the-year score for me. (This was one of the last things I got this year…just in time for my last post of new acquisitions for 2023.) It’s so colorful and has so much going on in it…unlike the actual movie. 

8) THE BIRDS (linen):

Another poster I have been trying to get all of my collecting life. On linen—but what the flying f*%#!?! It’s now or never. I ain’t gonna live forever…


7) MONSTER ON CAMPUS (linen):

Zowie! Another Reynold Brown classic! (Also on linen, but…)


6) THE MAD GHOUL (linen):

Somehow I had never heard of this flick until this green and blue beauty of a poster caught my eye. Yes, it’s on linen…but I still love it. 


5) ISLE OF THE DEAD (re-release on linen):

Yowza! I so am thrilled to have this creepy portrait of Karloff on this poster. I said when I originally posted this, despite this being a rerelease—I have always preferred this version to the completely different original release poster.


4) THE RAVEN (linen):
FINALLY! I have one. Do I need to continue my search for one? “Quoth the raven, nevermore…” (Well a swell one without the linen would be sweet, but…)


3) THE INVISIBLE MAN’S REVENGE (linen):
Universal horror? Even if it is just the 5th (and last—until he went comedy with Abbott and Costello) and not scary at all, I will gladly add it to my collection.

2) ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN (linen):
ANOTHER linenbacked poster… Blah! (If you are keeping score, only 1 of the 10 in this year’s list is without linenbacking…) It is such a nice, colorful poster. I love how the Invisible Man is portrayed as well. 


1) SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF (linen): 

While the movie may not be all that good, getting this poster excited me more than any other this year. This year was the year of the tiki bar. While my bar is NOT done yet. I need an electrician--but that will have to wait until next spring as I am “wintering” in California this year (mid-October through mid-February). Yet this poster was framed and up on the wall (on the wall on the first landing leading down to the tiki room). It's sort of a welcome to the bar and sets the mood. (My bar is called Monster-A-GoGo's Gruesome Grotto!) Hot diggity!

That’s it. What exciting things did YOU find this year???

Happy hunting in 2024.

CHEERS!



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