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Dr. Frankenstein’s famous exclamation from the 1931 classic film is now also the fitting title of a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem.
“It’s Alive” displays a trove of rare, vintage horror and sci-fi posters that s been passionately amassed over decades by a consummate collector, Kirk Hammett, lead guitarist for Metallica.
The PEM exhibit displays Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett other passion old movie posters. (Andrea Shea/WBUR)
The 54-year-old musician says the seeds for his creepy, but stunning poster collection were sown early.
“I’ve been obsessed with the horror movie genre ever since I was 5 years old,” he recalled. That’s when he encountered his gateway film “The Day of the Triffids,” a black-and-white 1962 spine-tingler about extraterrestrial plantlike creatures taking over. “From that moment on I was hooked,” Hammett said.
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