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Originally Posted by thehamish  dug out me Plague of the Zombies. god i love this film. god i hate the cover....in fact i dont remember seeing any british releases WITH decent covers. enlighten me? |
A lot of Hammer releases back in the day were from Warner who seemed to have no on making good looking covers, I suppose they just expected most of those who brought the discs to already be Hammer fans.
Check out the difference between the Dracula: Prince of Darkness covers for the WB UK release and the German DVD:
But the most poorly treated was 'Devil-Ship Pirates' - a thrilling adventure film that gets a title with Andrew Keir in sepia close-up. It is almost like they wanted to avoid selling the film, compare this cover with the original theatrical poster:
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