Reel Monsters | A Gallery of 8mm Box Art

Before VHS, 8mm and Super 8 monster movies were extremely popular. These "edited highlights" packages - often available in b&w/silent up to colour/sound variations - had the added allure of garish reel box art, designs which matched the distinctive covers of the monster magazines who readily advertised them. Most fans first encountered 8mm within the back pages of Famous Monsters of Filmland, where Captain Company - Warren publishing's mail order department - would continue to offer titles until they became defunct in 1983. 

Listed by distributor. 

Americom

 THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer 1957

THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer 1957

DRACULA, Hammer 1958

THE STRANGE WORLD OF PLANET X, 

George Maynard Productions 1958

Castle

FRENZY, Universal 1972

Columbia

THE GAMMA PEOPLE, Warwick 1956

THE GORGON, Hammer 1964

NIGHT OF THE DEMON, Sabre 1957

THE  REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer 1958

Derann


THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR, Tigon 1968

THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, Tigon 1971

THE BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW, Tigon 1971

THE COMEBACK, Heritage 1978

THE CREEPING FLESH, Tigon 1973


DEAD OF NIGHT, Ealing 1945

THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, Hammer 1968

DRACULA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, Hammer 1966

THE GHOUL, Tyburn 1975

HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer 1970

I DON'T WANT TO BE BORN, Rank/Unicapital 1975

ISLAND OF TERROR, Planet 1966

LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, Hammer 1971

MOVIE MAGAZINE #2: HAMMER HOUSE OF HORROR, 

Hammer compilation

THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES, Hammer 1966

THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT, Hammer 1955

QUATERMASS 2, Hammer 1957

QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, Hammer 1967

 SCARS OF DRACULA, Hammer 1970

VIRGIN WITCH, Tigon 1970

WOMANEATER, Fortress 1958

Iver

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER, Hammer 1976

Ken

AT THE EARTH'S CORE, Amicus 1976

BEHEMOTH THE SEA MONSTER, Artistes Alliance 1959

FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, Hammer 1969

KONGA, Merton Park 1961

TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA, Hammer 1969

WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH, Hammer 1970

Marketing Film

WITCHFINDER GENERAL, Tigon 1968

Mountain

THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, Security 1962

FIEND WITHOUT A FACE, Amalgamated Productions 1958

Powell

ASSAULT, George H. Brown Productions 1971

VAMPYRES, Essay/Lurco Films 1974

Republic

MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE, Fernwood 1952

Royal

HORROR HOSPITAL, Noteworthy Films 1973

UFA/ATB

THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES, American International Pictures 1971


THE OBLONG BOX, American International Pictures 1969

SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN, Amicus 1970

TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER, Hammer 1976

Walton

THE BEAST MUST DIE, Amicus 1974

CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTAR, Tigon 1968

DALEKS - INVASION EARTH 2150AD, AARU/Amicus 1966

DR WHO AND THE DALEKS, AARU/Amicus 1965

DOOMWATCH, Tigon 1972


FRIGHT, Fantale Films 1971

MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE, Fernwood 1952

THE NIGHT CALLER, Armitage Film Productions 1965

ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., Hammer 1966

SATURN 3, ITC 1980

TWINS OF EVIL, Hammer 1972

VAMPIRE CIRCUS, Hammer 1971

VAMPIRE CIRCUS, Hammer 1971

 WITCHFINDER GENERAL, Tigon 1968

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