Hello and welcome,

Whether your a fan of Hammer studios, a movie poster collector, or just curious I hope you enjoy the show.

When I was a wee little nipper, hmm I guess 6 or 7 years old, I was being baby-sat at a friend of my parents house. I stayed up late that night and watched the late night movie on ABC (Australia's publicly owned station) -the film?

THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN

I loved it. I still remember the feeling as I watched the eyeballs move in the tank of liquid, the first sighting of the Monster, needless to say I was HOOKED.

Fortunately the ABC prefers to play UK films and often a good Hammer film would be on. Over the years I saw films like THE TWO FACES OF DR JECKYLL, CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF, SCARS OF DRACULA.

At age 9 or so I got a book for Xmas called the Hamlyn Book of Horror, a British book its focus was on English Horror films and their stars. I was heavily influenced by this book as it was very biased towards stars such as Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Studios such as Amicus and (of course) Hammer.

A combination of living in a regional area (with only two television stations) and hence not seeing much American movies on TV and this Hamlyn Book of Horror meant that my early years of Horror watching was biased to UK Horror (of course the other station played US movies, but not a lot of Horror - Oh it did screen The Blob and The Exorcist I recall).

Anyways, things changed when I was 11 years old and my parents were given a VCR for Xmas, a whole new world opened up. Also found magazines at this stage like Fangoria and started getting more film books (and of course Phil Edwards Beyond Imagination and Shocking Cinema were very influential to me) . I guess from then on it was hell for leather and I watched any horror film I could get my hands on.

Hammer films have always held a special place in my heart, and when I was all grown up, a father, studying Film at University and still a video collector, I stumbled into a little shop run by a little old lady in Perth, Western Australia. She had thousands of movie posters, in boxes, nothing catalogued, just sorted into genres. I went through the HORROR boxes and grabbed a handful. Two were SCARS OF DRACULA and HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN daybills... My first hammer posters, and the start of my Hammer collection. I went back to the shop a few times, got some more posters from time to time and chatted with the lady (in her 90's). One day walking home from University I noticed her store was closed. I asked the shop next door and was told she had died. A sad day.

Anyway... now... 9 years later here I am... I've spent the last 5 or so years trying to buy any Australian Printed Hammer poster I could find, some are easier to find than others of course, and what this site is, is a tribute to that little studio that did some big things, a source of interest for you, the reader (I hope), a record of different Hammer posters printed for Aussie theatres, and a use for my labour of love (which usually live in a dark cupboard.

Use the buttons to the left to navigate to the different eras, but please note at this stage there is nothing in the EARLY YEARS or 1940's pages.

So sit back, relax and enjoy my collection... OH and thanks for stopping by.

AND HAVE FUN!

Ari