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'A deliciously guilty pleasure.' --The Daily Mail
'Reading, holding, admiring this massive tome is indeed -- for lovers of this sort of thing -- a genuinely emotional experience that increases your heartbeat and almost damn well elicits tears. This is beautiful, rapturous stuff...' --Fangoria
'A hardcover tome fit for any horror fan's coffee table' --Bloody Disgusting
'Horrifyingly good...If you're a fan of poster art, or Hammer Films, or gorgeous coffee table books that will, at the very least, start a discussion, then The Art of Hammer should not be missed.' --The Playlist
'The Official Poster Collection From the Archive of Hammer Films is a great addition to your personal library, and one that should take up some room on your coffee table so it can entertain your guests. It's a celebration of the Hammer legacy, a time capsule that gives praise and serious study to an artform that no one suspected was an artform at the time of its creation.' --Coming Attractions
'Hundreds of gloriously full-on ads that typically marry eroticism to quivering fear.' --Total Film
'A feast for the eyes of horror fans...a pretty comprehensive collection of primary-coloured design goodness' --Empire
'Pick up The Art of Hammer today and get lost in the colorfully glossy pages of poster art from yesteryear.' --JoBlo.com
'This book delivers oodles of science fiction and horror posters from the legendary film studio.' --io9
'Hearn's book is filled with hundreds of full-color images -- serious eye candy for horror and Hammer fans alike.' --Moviefone
'Reading, holding, admiring this massive tome is indeed -- for lovers of this sort of thing -- a genuinely emotional experience that increases your heartbeat and almost damn well elicits tears. This is beautiful, rapturous stuff...' --Fangoria
'A hardcover tome fit for any horror fan's coffee table' --Bloody Disgusting
'Horrifyingly good...If you're a fan of poster art, or Hammer Films, or gorgeous coffee table books that will, at the very least, start a discussion, then The Art of Hammer should not be missed.' --The Playlist
'The Official Poster Collection From the Archive of Hammer Films is a great addition to your personal library, and one that should take up some room on your coffee table so it can entertain your guests. It's a celebration of the Hammer legacy, a time capsule that gives praise and serious study to an artform that no one suspected was an artform at the time of its creation.' --Coming Attractions
'Hundreds of gloriously full-on ads that typically marry eroticism to quivering fear.' --Total Film
'A feast for the eyes of horror fans...a pretty comprehensive collection of primary-coloured design goodness' --Empire
'Pick up The Art of Hammer today and get lost in the colorfully glossy pages of poster art from yesteryear.' --JoBlo.com
'This book delivers oodles of science fiction and horror posters from the legendary film studio.' --io9
'Hearn's book is filled with hundreds of full-color images -- serious eye candy for horror and Hammer fans alike.' --Moviefone
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Hammer Films were almost as well known for the way in which they sold their films, as for the films themselves. "The Art of Hammer" is the first ever collection of the company's iconic movie posters, and is a celebration of movie art at its best. This large format, lavish hardback brings together hundreds of rare posters from around the world, and features Hammer's greatest films.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A lovely, large format book showing 100s of the beautiful designs used for Hammer films. It covers the full life cycle of Hammer, and not just the horror films.
Examples are used from various countries, so you can see the different ways the films were depicted across the world.
Pleasingly the posters are presented on a high quality paper too, whereas some titles of this nature don't do the artwork justice, using cheap matt paper.
A must have book for horror and film art fans in general!
Examples are used from various countries, so you can see the different ways the films were depicted across the world.
Pleasingly the posters are presented on a high quality paper too, whereas some titles of this nature don't do the artwork justice, using cheap matt paper.
A must have book for horror and film art fans in general!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Genre fans are always in safe hands with Marcus Hearn, and this lavish full colour 'does-what-it-says-on-the tin' visual history of Hammer's art doesn't disappoint.
The book provides a fascinating visual documentation of the film studio while simultaneously reflecting changes in marketing promotion (and gimmickry), shifts in public tastes, and a considerable diversity in artistic styles.
From the fifties, where the posters reflect Hammer's burgeoning reputation for the innovative, lurid and shocking, through to the seventies where the imagery is increasingly 'sexed up' with buxom beauties and ever-grislier threats, all bases are covered, and many of the posters will still inspire readers to check out the films for themselves.
Often intriguing are the more obscure images for Hammer's (perhaps neglected) psychological thrillers, from the US poster for Taste of Fear/ Scream of Fear (clearly inspired by Hitchcock's ground-breaking promotion for Psycho) to Crescendo and The Anniversary. And always curious are Polish and Japanese variants - for Poland's One Milion Years B.C. a cartoon dinosaur chomps on a caveman, taking the place of the iconic image of Raquel Welch in her fur bikini. Worth noting too that 'The House of Horror's' repertoire wasn't limited to that genre - thus a gurning Blakey from the movie version of On the Buses nestles up against the sexually threatening Hands of the Ripper.
There's much artwork and imagination here to satisfy both poster collectors and fans of the studio, plus some dramatic, bold and plain silly promotions. For the 'space western' Moon Zero Two (a film apparently coupled with The Bugs Bunny Show) we are enticed by the sight of 'the fabulous Go-Jos dancing on the moon' (Kubrick singularly failed to realise such visual opportunities in the previous year's 2001); audience members are promised their own beards to sport during screenings of Rasputin - The Mad Monk; while Dracula A.D. 1972 proclaims 'The Count is back, with an eye for London's hotpants... and a taste for everything'. (The stunning Italian variation of the poster for the latter film - the book's cover - fascinatingly re-casts Lee's Dracula as an anti-heroic Bond figure.)
Highlights, in other words, are numerous and need to be seen on the printed page. Where else can you witness 'White hot terror! Cold, clammy fear!', 'The terrifying lover - who dies - yet lived!', and - most fittingly - 'The greatest blood-show on earth!'?
The book provides a fascinating visual documentation of the film studio while simultaneously reflecting changes in marketing promotion (and gimmickry), shifts in public tastes, and a considerable diversity in artistic styles.
From the fifties, where the posters reflect Hammer's burgeoning reputation for the innovative, lurid and shocking, through to the seventies where the imagery is increasingly 'sexed up' with buxom beauties and ever-grislier threats, all bases are covered, and many of the posters will still inspire readers to check out the films for themselves.
Often intriguing are the more obscure images for Hammer's (perhaps neglected) psychological thrillers, from the US poster for Taste of Fear/ Scream of Fear (clearly inspired by Hitchcock's ground-breaking promotion for Psycho) to Crescendo and The Anniversary. And always curious are Polish and Japanese variants - for Poland's One Milion Years B.C. a cartoon dinosaur chomps on a caveman, taking the place of the iconic image of Raquel Welch in her fur bikini. Worth noting too that 'The House of Horror's' repertoire wasn't limited to that genre - thus a gurning Blakey from the movie version of On the Buses nestles up against the sexually threatening Hands of the Ripper.
There's much artwork and imagination here to satisfy both poster collectors and fans of the studio, plus some dramatic, bold and plain silly promotions. For the 'space western' Moon Zero Two (a film apparently coupled with The Bugs Bunny Show) we are enticed by the sight of 'the fabulous Go-Jos dancing on the moon' (Kubrick singularly failed to realise such visual opportunities in the previous year's 2001); audience members are promised their own beards to sport during screenings of Rasputin - The Mad Monk; while Dracula A.D. 1972 proclaims 'The Count is back, with an eye for London's hotpants... and a taste for everything'. (The stunning Italian variation of the poster for the latter film - the book's cover - fascinatingly re-casts Lee's Dracula as an anti-heroic Bond figure.)
Highlights, in other words, are numerous and need to be seen on the printed page. Where else can you witness 'White hot terror! Cold, clammy fear!', 'The terrifying lover - who dies - yet lived!', and - most fittingly - 'The greatest blood-show on earth!'?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
this book is an amazing collectable for hammer and horror fans alike. Filled with stunning pictures of movie posters of all hammer films, it's a real must-have! Recommended.
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the magic lives on
oh,for those golden days when you was out and about and turned a corner and saw those billboards advertising double feature programmes showing such gems as,kiss of the... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Wayne Allen
TERRIFIC HORROR POSTER ART
A complete and rich guide to the most popular poster art of a greatest english horror and fantastic film production. Very cool!
Published 16 months ago by Sergio57
A Treasure Trove!
I consider myself a big Hammer horror buff but this book still managed to surprise and delight. What an incredible array of poster and promotional art! Lots I'd never seen before! Read more
Published 18 months ago by Simon F
Under The Hammer
Nice coffee table browser. My only gripe: Marcus, why omit the original British poster for Lust for a Vampire in favour of the less than spectacular Belgian offering?
Published 19 months ago by Don
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