Top Trump Horror Cards

In my box of memories I have the Top Trumps Horror Cards, dating back to the late 1970’s. The artwork is nicely splashy watercolours, and I’m surprised how gruesome and bloody some of them are. Looking at them now I recognise some of the original inspirations, and I’ve been able to find the original source image and include it below.

However, many of the originals elude me, so I need your help. Check out each of the cards below, and ping me @muteboy to tell me what they are based on. If you can find the actual source image, all the better – I’ll include your name and the image below. Try and find the exact actual shot used if possible! Yes, Gargantua looks a bit like the Creature from the Black Lagoon, but the pattern of scales on the chest is different, and the artist was clearly not inclined to improvise.

Let’s find these monsters!

Card Image	Description	Artwork Source
	Cover of the pack, with Dracula	See below
	Devil Priest Cover of the bonus pack you could send off for
	Collectors free gift card You collected these and you could save up for other packs.	n/a
	Another cover card, this time with the checklist of available packs on it.	n/a
	Dracula	Christopher Lee in ‘Dracula’ (1972) (found by mjp)
	Prince of Darkness	The demon mask from ‘Onibaba’ (1964) (found by mjp)
	The Risen Dead This looks a bit Fulci.	Not Fulci. Not Peter Cushing. Anyone?
	The Freak	This is from the 1966 Hammer movie ‘The Reptile’, but I can’t find the exact still it’s copied from.
	Man-Eating Plant	See Hypnogoria!
	The Ghoul	‘The Monster Maker’ (1944) (found by @ThatColdShiver)
	Lord of Death	Lon Chaney in the 1925 version of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’. He crops up elsewhere in this set, under different names. (found by mjp)
	Vampire Bat Could this be original artwork?
	The Thing Interesting, this one. I think this was drawn before the Carpenter movie, yet it does show a dog with weird legs growing out of it. Anyway.	It’s from the movie ‘Angry Red Planet’. (found by mjp)
	Maggot	See Hypnogoria!
	Phantom of the Opera	‘The Abominable Dr Phibes’ (1971) (found by Richard Littler)
	The Hangman	Lon Chaney again, in ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (1925) (found by mjp)
	Incredible Melting Man	This was taken from a still used in many of the posters for the 1977 movie. (found by mjp)
	Two Headed Monster	The first trial of the experiment that would put “a white bigot’s head on a soul brother’s body” in ‘The Thing with Two Heads’ (1972) (found by mjp)
	Fu Manchu	Boris Karloff in ‘The Mask of Fu Manchu’ (1932) (found by mjp)
	Skeleton This does look a bit like something from ‘Army of Darkness’ but the cards were made even before ‘The Evil Dead’.	See Hypnogoria!
	The Sorceress	See Hypnogoria!
	Headhunter	The Genie from ‘The Thief of Baghdad’ (1940) (found by Richard Littler) (also found by @ThatColdShiver)
	Zetan Warlord I’m sure I’ve seen this somewhere.	See Hypnogoria!
	Cannibal
	The Gorgon Bit of a mess this one.
	Godzilla Why is he dressed up?!
	Werewolf	Michael Landon in ‘I Was a Teenage Werewolf’ (1955) (found by mjp)
	The Mad Axeman
	The Executioner	See Hypnogoria!
	Madman	See Hypnogoria!
	Granite Man	Looks a bit “made up”, if you know what I mean.
	King Kong Obviously this is just King Kong, but I can’t find the exact still used.	Aha! It’s not King Kong, it’s Konga, a knockoff from 1961! Read about this and other knockoffs at Den of Geek here. (found by mjp)
	Ape Man
	Circus of Death
	Gargantua It’s not the Creature from the Black Lagoon, because the details on the scales don’t match up (and considering the artist was just copying, I doubt they improvised).	‘It! The Terror from Beyond Space’ (1958) Spotted in the feed of @Dr_GialloI couldn’t find an exact match for this image, but judging by the big dark shadows behind the monster, it came from the same publicity photo shoot as these:
	The Mad Magician	Lon Chaney in ‘London After Midnight’ (1927) (found by mjp)