It is a free theme for this week’s Sunday Stamps and since it is a few days to go before Halloween, I decided to share with you these famous scary characters. You’ve probably tried dressing up like them in one of those Trick or Treat events you’ve attended.
The first stamp features Mary Shelley’s unforgettable character Frankenstein, which was brought to life by the actor Boris Karloff in the 1931 film adaptation. He then played The Mummy in its own film adaptation a year later.
This last stamp, on the other hand, features another well-known character, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, who was brought to life by Hungarian-American actor, Bela Lugosi, in its original film adaptation in 1931.
I do not know what was it about the 1930’s and scary films, but I would love to see these original films in black and white, if given the chance. It would be amazing to see how they brought these extremely terrifying characters with the limited technology at their disposal. By the way, these stamps came with a bunch of US State map cards, which I shall share in my upcoming posts!
Oh well, I do hope you have a pleasant week ahead and do share some Halloween-related stamps or postcards you might have stashed somewhere! 🙂
That’s an unusual theme for stamps.
sure is! I consider myself lucky to have these 🙂
I can’t stand scary films, even the stamps are scary enough for me … :p
Happy Halloween in advance!
These scary creatures I can stand, but there are other scary films I wouldn’t even dare to watch 🙂
Happy Halloween!
Bela Lagosi, my favourite vampire. Ah the “children of the night…”
they do not make vampires like him anymore…
Yes the original films are great. American TV is showing them this month.
thank you for joining us.
wow! that would be cool. hopefully i can get to watch them one of these days! you’re most welcome. i am just glad to have found the perfect way to feature stamps on my blog, too 🙂
I have seen these movies and they are more funny than scary!
really? hopefully i can download a copy somewhere, i’d love to see them!
We don’t make such a big thing about Halloween in the UK, The stamps and films are great, the latter well worth watching over and over again.