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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 5, 2008 13:07:54 GMT
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Post by bushwick on Nov 5, 2008 17:38:08 GMT
haha, thanks for this mate! I had these when I was a kid and I've never forgotten them. 'Fear Factor', 'Horror Rating' etc. Probably worth a few bob now like.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Nov 5, 2008 18:05:32 GMT
I sold a packet of each on eBay less than a year ago.
Got about £30 per pack.
Luvvly jubbly.
Spent the money on books of course.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 5, 2008 20:18:54 GMT
i found out there is a new pack of top trump horror as well, i'll have to see if i can hunt them out.
i had some wicked fantasy ones when i was a kid but cant remember if they were top trumps or a knock off brand.
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Post by benedictjjones on Nov 5, 2008 20:22:48 GMT
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Post by stephenbacon on Nov 5, 2008 22:38:51 GMT
I bought both packs through Ebay several years ago for about £50 the pair.
They bring back great memories.
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Post by lynnielynn on Jan 13, 2009 23:15:44 GMT
Cool, I've still got most of mine but the 2 packs got mixed up, so now I'll try and sort 'em out! |
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Post by lynnielynn on Jan 13, 2009 23:17:51 GMT
i found out there is a new pack of top trump horror as well, i'll have to see if i can hunt them out Hee hee, these were part of my Crimbo pressie a couple of years back , they glow in the dark, whooo! |
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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 24, 2009 15:49:18 GMT
Wow  I had both packs of these as a kid and spent many a happy hour playing with them. Bought from the newsagents opposite the stop where I got the bus home from school. Had forgotten they ever existed until clicking on this thread. I always did wonder what a sea devil out of Dr Who was doing in a Venusian Death Cell. But this did not detract at all from the fun! Thinking about it I reckon they came out circa 1979. |
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Post by vaughan on Aug 24, 2009 17:14:02 GMT
Wow, yeah, these seem familiar. Interesting to try to figure out the inspirational Cinematic sources....
Ape Man: Not sure, maybe Trog?
Cannibal: ?
Circus of Death: ?
Dracula: Christopher Lee/Hammer
The Executioner: ?
The Freak: The Reptile/Hammer
Fu Manchu: Boris Karloff/Universal
Gargantuan: ? Looks like the monster from MGM's It! The Terror from Beyond Space
The Ghoul: ? Damn.... I recognize it, but can't remember the movie title.
Godzilla: Godzilla
The Gorgon: ?
Granite Man: ?
The Hangman: Obviously Lon Chaney in Phantom of the Opera - the picture on the left is from Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter
Headhunter ?
Incredible Shrinking Man: Incredible Shrinking Man
King Kong: King Kong (though it should have been a woman in the hand)
Lord of Death: Lon Chaney/Phantom of the Opera
The Mad Axeman: ?
Man Eating Plant: I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Phantom of the Opera: Vincent Price/Dr. Phibes (weird!)
Prince of Darkness: Onibaba
The Risen Dead: ?
Skeleton: ?
The Sorceress: ?
The Thing: ?
Two Headed Monster: ? But I know it, can't bring it to mind...
The Vampire Bat: ?
Werewolf: ?
Zetan Lord: ?
I know 10 of the second set.
Anyone want to have a go with that?
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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 24, 2009 22:40:32 GMT
1st pack:
The Madman: deformed islander from Doomwatch (the movie rather than the TV series)
Two Headed Monster: a prototype from The Thing With Two Heads (a crap MGM production from 1972 where Ray Milland later gets his head transplanted onto a black guy)
2nd pack:
Alien Creature: a Morlock from The Time Machine (the 1960 George Pal movie)
The Beast: I have a feeling this is from an adaptation of Pickman's Model. But I can't come up with anything specific.
Colossus: from Colossus of New York, a 1958 B-movie
Creature from the Black Lagoon: himself
Creature from Outer Space: alien from This Island Earth
Fire Demon: from Dr Who story The Daemon
Frankenstein: a scene from Bride of Frankenstein
The Jailer: loosely based on Dwight Frye as Fritz in the 1932 Frankenstein
Living Gargoyle: another Dr. Who creature, but damned if I know what it is...EDIT: Is it hell. It's Gigan, a mechanical monster who scraps with Godzilla in various Toho giant monster flicks.
Several others are torturing me but I can't quite get them...
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Sept 3, 2009 18:29:05 GMT
The Thing = the "batratspidercrab" from The Angry Red Planet.
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Post by fullbreakfast on Sept 4, 2009 17:55:44 GMT
The Thing = the "batratspidercrab" from The Angry Red Planet. I'd not heard of this film before, but I see you're right!  One for the aficionado of crap monsters that! |
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Post by fullbreakfast on Sept 4, 2009 18:29:24 GMT
Couple of others I tracked down. "The Cannibal" is based on a robot from 1939 serial picture The Phantom Creeps:  and "The Fiend" comes from 1959 swords-and-sandals flick Goliath and the Barbarians:  Canny! |
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Post by maccolla on Aug 9, 2010 20:50:20 GMT
'Werewolf' is taken from a promo shot for 'I Was a Teenage Werewolf' ; 'Skeleton' bears strong similarities to those out of 'Jason and the Argonauts' and Cyclops like the one in a 70s Sinbad film - both Ray Harryhausen Attachments:
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