Famous Monsters of Filmland #119 September 1975 cover painting of Christopher Lee as Mummy Dracula Frankenstein Oliver Reed as Werewolf Jacqueline Pierce as Reptile by Ken Kelly featuring horror monster portraits 🔍 Click to enlarge

Famous Monsters of Filmland #119

Sep-75 • Ken Kelly
Inside This Issue

Issue #119 is a monster value-pack: filmbooks on The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Night of the Blood Beast, looks at Horror Hotel and the dinosaur romp Dinosaurus!, and a “Colossal Creature Contest” for the readers — all behind one of Ken Kelly’s most ambitious cover paintings, a gallery of Hammer’s finest fiends. Karloff turns up too, in “Karloff in the Magic Castle.”

Cover Spotlight

Ken Kelly assembles a murderers' row of Hammer horror — Christopher Lee as the Mummy, Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster, Oliver Reed's werewolf, and Jacqueline Pearce's Reptile Woman, all in one extraordinary cover painting.

Roll The Film

Christopher Lee (Hammer monster montage)

Thumb Thru Thursday 9:22

Ken Kelly Hammer-monster montage cover, painted a year before his KISS Destroyer album art

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Contents

  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • Karloff in the Magic Castle
  • Night of the Blood Beast
  • Dinosaurus
  • Colossal Creature Contest
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Recurring Departments

  • Fang Mail
  • You Axed For It
  • Colossal Creature Contest (quiz)
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Films Featured

Night of the Blood BeastDinosaurusThe Hunchback of Notre DameHorror HotelThe Human MonsterCurse of the WerewolfThe ReptileThe Lost Continent
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Personalities

Christopher LeeOliver ReedJacqueline PierceBoris KarloffLon Chaney Jr.

☠ Collector's Notes

Group covers pop on a wall, and Kelly’s multi-monster Hammer painting makes Issue #119 a showpiece. The filmbook-heavy contents read dense even by FM standards, and the Lost Continent poster back cover is a collector bonus.

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Discussion

FM #119 — September 1975

Ken Kelly assembles a murderers' row of Hammer horror — Christopher Lee as the Mummy, Dracula, and Frankenstein's Monster, Oliver Reed's werewolf, and Jacqueline Pearce's Reptile Woman, all in one extraordinary cover painting. Inside: NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST, DINOSAURUS, THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME, and HORROR HOTEL, and Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Jacqueline Pierce, and Boris Karloff.

Tell us the first monster from this one that lived in your head rent-free. ⬇️

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