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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 16, 2020 12:38:13 GMT
So apparently there was a novelization of Re-Animator.  It tends to command wickedly high prices on the secondary market. It's amazing to me how scarce a lot of these mass market paperbacks are. Older ones I get, but this is from the 80s. Is it just that not very many were printed...? Anyway, it's by Jeff Rovin, who also did the novelization for Cliffhanger as I recall. Apropos of nothing, this particular cover/poster always bugged me. I know it's Jeffrey Combs. You know it's Jeffrey Combs. But it still somehow looks like Richard Thomas.  |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 16, 2020 17:16:22 GMT
So apparently there was a novelization of Re-Animator. Damn, I missed this. I recently read a sort of "sequel" by Tim Curran, Morbid Anatomy, a sequel of the HPL story, not the movie. The premise of the story was interesting, but I thought rather blah and in dire need of editing. Apropos of nothing, this particular cover/poster always bugged me. I know it's Jeffrey Combs. You know it's Jeffrey Combs. But it still somehow looks like Richard Thomas. Because it is Richard Thomas. This is the picture from the Imdb. |
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Post by kooshmeister on Mar 16, 2020 17:22:56 GMT
I meant the cover. I posted a pic of Thomas for comparison.  I meant I've always thought that Herbert West looked like Richard Thomas on the movie poster/video cover/book cover.  |
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Post by andydecker on Mar 17, 2020 11:40:51 GMT
I meant the cover. I posted a pic of Thomas for comparison. I meant I've always thought that Herbert West looked like Richard Thomas on the movie poster/video cover/book cover. Oh, now I get it. You are right. There is a certain similarity.
Even if Thomas did some genre things like IT, I never think of him in that regard.
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Post by ripper on Mar 22, 2020 10:23:23 GMT
Current cheapest on ABE is £98.58 + another £7 or so shipping ouch! The movie is great, but at prices like that, the novelisation is very unlikely to make its way into my collection.
I used to have a paperback copy of Dawn of the Dead that I got from a remainder shop for around 25p in the early 80s. I chucked it out with other books when I got married. Now, there don't seem to be many copies around of the original 1979 edition. Actually, the film was released as Zombies here in the UK, so I didn't immediately realise the book was a novelisation. I just picked it up as it was cheap and looked interesting.
Another novelisation I had was Caligula. I got that one from a supermarket's book section around 1981. Now, I have heard there are two versions--don't know if it is true--one with stills from the film and one without stills. The one I bought had about 8 pages of stills, many of which might not make it into the stills pages if it was released today. Again, it got chucked.
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Post by helrunar on Mar 22, 2020 14:29:31 GMT
My all time favorite comment about the movie Caligula was a waggish line in a college newspaper reporting a screening at a rep house somewhere (back when many towns had rep theatres that screened older films): "Caligula--it's back! Then front. Then back. Then front."
I saw a copy of the novelization of that film in a bookstore somewhere or other around 40 years ago and it had the photos you mention. I don't know whether Gore Vidal wrote that book or not--seems unlikely, but who knows.
cheers, H.
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Post by ripper on Mar 22, 2020 18:08:04 GMT
lol That's an apt description of Caligula. I do find it hard to believe Gore Vidal wrote the book. It is surprisingly graphic in the sex department, with at least one scene that would be very problematic if published today I would think. I have been hoping that the books and comics I had to move when I got married were actually in the loft, but after many searches over the past 25+ years I have failed to locate them and reluctantly come to the conclusion that they were binned, though our loft is like an assault course, and the amount of stuff up there is considerable, so I suppose there's a very faint glimmer of hope they are hiding in a dark corner, but I doubt it.
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Post by kooshmeister on Feb 2, 2021 12:09:54 GMT
Come to find out, this hard to find and often very expensive book was recently reissued!  I do love it when older, out of print books get a second lease on life. They've also reissued, or are going to reissue, the Fright Night novelization as well. |
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