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POSTER MADNESS AMAZING! SHOCKING STARTLING!

The thrills and chills of Horror Movie Posters offer classic fright night fun.

Growing up in La Mesa, California, a small city just east of San Diego, Arthur and James Mitchell’s home was stuffed with Hollywood props, projectors, 16-millimeter films, movie magazines and – most importantly – movie posters.

In its early days, La Mesa was in the movie-making business, and the brothers’ father, Lt. Col. George J. Mitchell, Jr., was a big film fan. As a teenager, Arthur hung one of his dad’s old movie posters on the door of the bedroom the boys shared because he “thought it looked cool.”

Turns out, the poster was more than cool. It was one of only two surviving movie posters for , the 1931

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