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Doctor Blood’s Coffin

£495.00

Film

Doctor Blood’s Coffin

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Year

1961

Size/Type

UK Quad / Single Sided / (30″ x 40″) Printed in England. Stafford & Co. Ltd. Netherfield, Nottingham & London

Country of Origin

UK / British

Condition

Very Fine – Very Fine Minus / Originally Folded (as issued)

Director

Sidney J Furie

Actor/Actress

Gerald Lawson, Hazel Court, Ian Hunter, Kenneth J. Warren, Kieron Moore, Paul Stockman

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“We dare you to look into…Doctor Blood’s Coffin…to see the Monster created from the depths !”

Historically important as the first British zombie movie and a very early representation of the ‘modern’ zombie that we know & love today; undead, decaying, and violent and looks particularly menacing here as imagined the artist Bill Wiggins. This original UK quad film poster for Sidney J. Furie’s “Doctor Blood’s Coffin” is from first year of release 1961 and really is a striking example of horror artwork. Very rare to find in such fine original unrestored condition; the colours are unfaded, bright and vibrant; really pop from the paper. This scarce, folded (as issued) unrestored example displays and presents very well and represents an extremely collectable piece of 1960’s British horror cinema memorabilia.

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Film Description

Doctor Blood’s Coffin Movie Poster

“People are mysteriously disappearing near a remote Cornish village, where a scientist is experimenting with reviving the dead.”

Far from cheesy, Doctor Blood’s Coffin is rather an intelligently written, well acted and atmospherically shot picture that makes excellent use of its English coastal locale. In it, Kieron Moore plays Dr. Peter Blood, a modern-day research scientist who returns to his hometown in Cornwall after his experiments on bringing the dead back to life with still-living hearts cause him to be kicked out of Vienna. Back home, he enters into a relationship with his father’s pretty nurse assistant, Linda, played by Hazel Court (in the late ’50s and early ’60s, surely one of the prettiest actresses the U.K. had to offer), and secretly continues his work, using several of the town’s unwilling test subjects. Moore is just fine in the lead role as the dedicated but quite insane scientist, Court is gorgeous as usual (especially when shown in a low-cut sundress), and Australian character actor Kenneth J. Warren (who will always be Emma Peel nemesis Z.Z. von Schnerk to me!) is quite sturdy as the local police sergeant trying to get to the bottom of all the mishegas. The film gets increasingly bizarre as it progresses, especially when Dr. Blood decides to prove his case by bringing Linda’s late husband back as a nice surprise. There are several mildly gross surgical sequences to please all the gorehounds out there, and, for me, the highlight: a fine and heated discussion between Blood and Linda regarding the moral consequences of his work. This three-minute scene provides possibly the best thesping I’ve ever seen either actor give us. Ultimately, this supposedly “cheesy flick” turns out to be anything but, and is highly recommended for all fans of level-headed British horror.

 

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