The "An American Werewolf in London" thread

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Once there is not "An American Werewolf in London" thread, me and forum member Odin82 decided to start one.
Please feel free to post anything related to this great movie.
Here's what we got so far:

The Slaughtered Lamb pub sign:

The clapperboard:




Odin82 managed to trace down the rooster watercolours on the pub walls (19th century hand-colored engravings by Newton Smith Fielding)

At the pub table:
1- the beer mats

2- the Double Diamond ashtrays

This seems to be one of the ashtrays at the table - round yellow metal ashtray (sadly have not been able to get one yet)

 

[Odin82]

Ashtray No. 2, in front of Jack.

Have this on the way also. Not exactly the 3 piece wood sign, but close enough for being printed on wood!

 

[Odin82]

Have been trying to find this pub peanuts sign, but no luck as of yet. Seems the company sold to KP or something around 1985. Might need to be a photoshop job as I can imagine finding a vintage one would be pretty tough after almost 40 years.

 

[Odin82]

3 photos of the screen used sign from that exhibition in Seattle about 10 years ago. Just for scale reference.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

The "before / after" restoration of the werewolf by Tom Spina

 

[Aku]

However the ashtray on the bar in the peanuts picture, looks to be square, rather then round, and that one is available

Badger Best Bitter
And that looks like the beer pump clip

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Yeap. Square plastic at the bar counter and round metal at the tables
Great catch on the beer pump clip, Aku. Thanks.

 

[Odin82]

So my sign arrived yesterday. Must say I'm really happy with it. Though I definitely jumped the gun ordering it and didn't realise it had cut out about an inch off the top and bottom. Making the cove routing the edges and circular bottom corner cuts outs a bit more difficult. Still though, absolutely happy with the quality of the wood print on 80 X 60 cm. I'd love to get the Blu Ray set, and get a proper scan of the art that came with it though, to get it a bit more sharp.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Looks great.
How thick is the wood place? Those 5 vertical lines were in the original pic?

 

[Odin82]

Looks great.
How thick is the wood place? Those 5 vertical lines were in the original pic?

It's 6 pieces of wood together. 20mm thickness. Pretty sturdy and weighty. I'm sure a special request to have it printed both sides would be doable also, and then assemble it another way.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Love that wood. And the thickness is perfect.
Would have been great if they had printed it in 3 pieces. But looks fantastic anyway!

 

[Odin82]

Would definitely re-scale the image, or get that BluRay and scan the poster. Have it printed both sides, and just flat pack ship, and then join them with biscuits and glue and some clamps. Great to know though getting wood prints is pretty easy these days! Might be other sites that do wider pieces of wood to get that 3 piece look.

Hopefully I'll do some routing to the sides this week, and might use an extra router piece for the bottom. The sides will all be stained. Then I'll have to pull out the dremel and do that style of aging the wood you had used. Have a lot of things I could use to weather it, but I'm in between two minds whether to weather it much. Might just route it, stain it, finish with a clear coat or two, and leave out in the Irish weather in the garden over this coming winter.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Yeap, scan the poster would be the best thing and I agree with you - knowing that getting wood prints is pretty easy these days is very good.

 

[Odin82]

Maybe someone with a reddit account will post on the horror sub, asking someone with an A3 scanner and the BluRay to scan the image .....

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Jack Goodman Latex Mask sculpted by Mikey Rottela

(Trick or Treat Studios and Universal Studios)

 

[Odin82]

A bunch of years ago, HeroComplexGallery had a tribute to Rick Baker exhibition of art prints. Something like 50 of the orders would be hand signed by Rick Baker. Ordered a bunch of the AWIL prints, but sadly, wasn't lucky enough to get one of the 50 that were signed. Posting the link for posterity. The Monster Maker with Rick Baker

On the note of art prints, this is one of my faves "Stay off the Moors" by Tim Doyle. Have one of the original prints, but really wish I had managed to get the Variants with the red jacket on David. Fantastic print, and glows in the dark, which is pretty cool in the middle of the night. I see the DarkCityGallery site that sell the prints, recently have done a new run on them, but on a smaller scale like A3 or something.

One thing I'd love is if Laurent Durieux ever released an AWIL print. I'd be heartbroken to miss out on one of those!

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

Some real nice prints.

 

[MAKE BELIEVE]

An American Werewolf in London 1981 - Ultimate Guide (by Nige Burton and Jamie Jones)
- The Classic Movie Monsters Collection -

 

[Stevesoze]

However the ashtray on the bar in the peanuts picture, looks to be square, rather then round, and that one is available

Badger Best Bitter
And that looks like the beer pump clip

Some of the other stuff is available and Ive been fortunate that Ive been given some as gifts!

 

[Odin82]

Finally got around to pulling the router to the pub sign, and a bit of wood stain. Thought I had some varnish around but I guess I'm out. Excuse the bad quality iPhone 6 pics. I'll break out the DSLR when I give it some licks of varnish.