There was a recent auction that had lots and lots of things I would love to have, including about a half dozen bucket list titles. Well, I went through and bid on a lot of them during the pre-auction bidding, never expecting to get any of them. Oops. I got several (and as I write this opening bit, the auction is still going—with my bids still on many items!) Yikes! We will see what happens when the dust clears, but UGH! I screwed myself silly. Let’s take a look at the damage… oh my! (But these first four titles are NOT part of the auction fiasco.)
ED WOOD (Retrospective ):
Golly, I do NOT even remember buying this. I noticed it in my eBay purchases. What??? Hmm. Yes, it is a thing I would buy, …but I really was surprised to see I had purchased it. And yikes! It’s a HUGE French g-r-a-n-d-e (Sorry T) poster. Geez! Imago having a giant Ed Wood starring down at you when le you’re sleeping. Eek!
COBWEB:
This isn’t a new purchase. I was going through some of my tubes of posters, putting them in my flat file, when I came across this poster. I had no memory of buying this, but I think I must have gotten it during chemo when I was just soooo out of it. I had never (at least I don’t think so. I don’t see it listed on any of my pages.) gotten around to posting this apparently. I don’t know why I bought this unless I bought before watching the flick. The movie was soooo lame.
BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR (video):
I already have both styles of the original RE-ANIMATOR one sheet. Normally, I don’t buy posters for sequels unless their particular series I enjoy, such as the James Bond films, or the larger horror franchises, etc. When I decided to pick up the poster for BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (See below), I decided I should get one for the first sequel, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR. Why leave a gap between the first and the third? As far as I know, BRIDE never had a theatrical release or a one sheet to go with it. There was just the video poster. I didn’t really care for BRIDE. It wasn’t nearly as good as the first film. Oh well, here’s the poster… (And it has occurred to me now that video posters are kind of a relic of the past as well. I should’ve bought more of them. They used to be so cheap.)
BEYOND RE-ANIMATOR (Spanish):
I had no idea this third serving of the RE-ANIMATOR series existed until I saw this poster. What little research I’ve done seems to indicate that the film never had a US theatrical release and was only released in Spain and Thailand. I’ve seen posters for both. Surely it must’ve played elsewhere, but I don’t see any evidence of that. Of course, the way things are going direct video and or streaming now, it might not have played anywhere else. I think it was the fact that I’ve never seen the movie — that curiosity about it— that prompted me to buy the poster. Whoopie… (Translating the tagline for you: ‘Welcome to a world where death is only the beginning.” At least the title is in English!)
And now, finally, on to Auction Armageddon…
THE FATAL HOUR:
Okay, truth be told, this did NOT have a bid waiting on it. As time was counting down on this item (only the 2nd or 3rd piece in the auction I was watching thus far), I bid stupidly….and it became mine. Don’t get me wrong. I love Boris Karloff and I’m always thrilled to pick up a one sheet featuring him. However, this looks to be some crime drama (instead of horror) and with Karloff awkwardly playing Asian. Hmm…
CALTIKI:
Do I know what this movie is? No. During the second day of the this big two-day auction, nothing I had pre-bid on became mine. Hooray! (Well, I would have loved that original GODZILLA—$6,000 or the PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE—$3,250, but I had already shot my poster wad accidentally—Story below—not that I could have afforded either one of them anyway…). I wanted to avoid mishaps with my phone and accidental bidding. (I’m telling you, just wait. The story is below.) Instead, I busied myself putting posters away in one of my flat file drawers. The phone was on my bed and I would glance at it from time to time as I worked. One time I glanced down and saw a tiny image of this poster on the chopping block. CALTIKI? I’d never heard of it. What is it? I tried to make out the image, but I couldn’t quite do it. CALTIKI? Did it have anything to do with “tiki” in general? There wasn’t time to do any research. The end of bidding was counting down. It didn’t seem that high priced (always seeming to forget the fees this auction house tacks on…D’oh!) and I blindly pushed the bid button. Oops!
Although I still don’t know anything about the film ( I have NOT had the heart to look it up.), having finally LOOKED at a larger version of the poster, the city being crushed and tank-like thing on the poster certainly do NOT scream “tiki”. It LOOKS like a ripoff of THE BLOB, if anything. Drat! Now I’m stuck with a poster I really have no interest in (much like the COBWEB and ED WOOD posters, but those weren’t nearly as expensive)! Grr!
BOWERY AT MIDNIGHT:
Here’s the first of my pre-bid boo-boos… As with Karloff, I also dig my Bela Lugosi posters. With this one, I mistakenly thought it was another film with the East Side Kids (who eventually morphed into the Bowery Boys) along the lines of GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE and SPOOKS RUN WILD which starred Lugosi and the “Kids”. WRONG! (And I clearly have NOT seen the movie thus far in my life). For a second I thought someone had outbid me, but nope. When the end of the auction came around, it was mine. I’m not super unhappy, but…it wouldn’t have been my first choice of things to buy.
KING KONG (1957 re-release):
Argh!!! Don’t get me wrong. I love KING KONG (my fave!) and I dig this poster, it’s just that…well, I already have it. I bid on soooooo many things (and was fortunately outbid on most of them). The reason I bid on this one the amount I did is that, when I got my original several years ago, it went for so much more than this one was going for (and this looked to possibly be in better condition). So I bid HALF of what I paid for my original one…thinking for sure I’d be outbid. Nope. (#%$&!!!)
REVENGE OF THE CREATURE:
Oh God! This one killed me. I had NOT bid on this one before the auction. It was in my watch list, sure… but it was already well beyond my limit. Sometime right around 11am, while the auction was occurring, my mom was texting me, wanting to know what I was doing. I told her I was watching a poster auction and some pieces were going for insanely high (as viewed from my wallet, anyway…). She wanted to see it. She was bugging me. Was it on TV or some web site? How could she see it?
I was trying to watch the auctions and text with my mom and figure out how to get her to the auction page. I was flipping back and forth between screens and ARGH. Somehow right as this was closing and I was flipping back over to the auction page, my finger accidentally hit the “bid” button. Oh sh*t!!!! No one out bid me. Sold…
This is a poster I wanted/needed… but NOT in this shape and definitely NOT for this much money. Let that be a lesson to you, kids. Know where your fingers are and what they are doing at ALL times. Eeek!
ZOMBIES ON BROADWAY:
Believe it or not, this was one of the “bucket list” posters I dreamed of having. Mind you. I knew if I was going to have any luck getting one, it was going to be this one as it is on the cheaper side of the ones I wanted most of all. (Cheaper being a relative term. This still went for more than I wish it had.) I had bid on this early (as I had for several others) and kept my fingers crossed. When it was time for the live auction, the bids came…and the price went up and up. Fortunately my high bid made it with $10 to spare!
And that’s it. OMG… way, WAY too expensive for my blood. I had to dig deep into my piddly (and dwindling rapidly) savings to cough up the money for these. Crap!!! I’m going to die a total pauper surrounded by expensive paper. Ha!
Anyway, thanks for stopping by and having a look. I've got to go and try to revive my finances somehow...ARGH! Cheers!
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