Haha! Well spotted

These are actually part of our Roy Ashton & Phil Leakey Collection🩸

Ashton and Leakey were master make-up artists who worked on many of the British cult horror films of the mid-20th century. Often creating monsters with small budgets, they made creative use of everyday materials such as cereal!

🔦 This event is part of Cine Spotlights - Pictureville’s monthly film education season offering a deep dive into a film’s themes, genres, directors, or subject matter, with expert talks alongside classic screenings.

Her talk, The Female Love Triangle at the Heart of Rebecca, dives into the film’s complex relationships: Mrs de Winter (Joan Fontaine), housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Judith Anderson), and the titular Rebecca.

You may already be familiar with their work through our Blog from the Basement series (and if you’re not, you should be!), but today they’re answering *our* burning questions about what it takes to look after the collection.💗

And perhaps the scariest of all... the inescapable passage of time :)

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Scary in a "war is scary" way but also in a Doctor Who S1E9 "The Empty Child" way

Andy Pandy and his cursed tricycle. No further questions.

Buddy is OBVIOUSLY TERRIFYING! But I raise you the interactive button next to him in the Sound and Vision galleries that makes his eyes move (which I am certain I've seen move unprompted)

Like this wooden doll from 1780! Although this one's actually kind of charming? But terrifying?

This poured wax doll from the early 1900s or literally any of many similar old dolls in our collection tbh...

First up, Jim Henson's animatronic March Hare head from Alice in Wonderland (1999)

Based on this alone it is absolutely wild that this wasn't a horror film tbh???

Fantastic - thanks so much for sharing! Pretty sure that same red Dalek pictured there is usually now found lurking in the bar area of Pictureville cinema if you ever wanted to be reunited...

Should've predicted this one! Excellent choice.

The DALEK. Obviously!

We're surrounded by these incredible objects every single day and, as much as we love it, it makes choosing our favourites pretty hard.

This year, we want to ask YOU what your favourite object in the museum is? 🤔