COMPETITION THE AMICUS COLLECTION : MUNRO AND ANDRESS RARE PICS!

#COMPETITION! ARE YOU READY TO PLAY . . .AND WIN?

STARTING NEXT WEEK! #CUSHINGFEMMEFATALESFRIDAY! We had planned to kick start this NEW THEMED DAY, today. Alas some annoying technical problems, got the better of us. So, NEXT WEEK it is then!

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WATCH 'AND NOW, THE SCREAMING STARTS!' #GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY!

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHINGSUNDAY! INDEED! One of a handful of Cushing frighteners, that passed my dear ol Mum's 'GetTheCushion' test!  . .  she always hid her eyes behind a cushion on sofa, if the tenstion became, TOO MUCH! Yeees, that's where this themed concept comes from ;)

'In 1795, in England, the young woman Catherine moves to the house of her fiancé Charles Fengriffen in the country to get married with him. When she arrives, she feels interest in the portraits of the Fengriffen family, particularly in the one of Charle's grandfather Henry Fengriffen, which seems to have a sort of evil entity possessing it. While admiring Henry's face, a severed hand attacks Catherine through the picture on the wall. Later, she gets married with Charles, beginning her journey of mystery, eerie apparitions, secrets and deaths, and having her days filled with fear and the nights with horrors in a cursed family.'

'AND NOW, THE SCREAMING STARTS' was AMICUS FILMS only production that ventured into the field of 'GOTHIC GHOST STORY'. The Amicus trademark, were films that were set and based in a contemporary setting. Even though a tale like, 'THE DOOR' in 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' (1974) has a toe in the Ghostly World of time past, it confines the setting of the story, to a modern home, with ONE ROOM that appears to be trapped in the 1700's. Maybe it was a question of cost? Films sets for period films, have lots of ZERO'S on the budget sheet, something that would have certainly given producer Milton Subotsky nightmares! With that in mind, don't look too closely at the interior sets of this film, instead admire Cushing calm performance..IGNORE the hairpiece, we've been over it. Beacham is very good, as is Herbert Lom, Magee, and Geoffrey Whitehead. Special mention to a young Ian Ogilvy and director Roy Ward Baker, who both along with Cushing, keep the whole thing, entertaining and moving along nicely....

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MORE ON PETER CUSHING AND THE CAST OF

 'AND NOW, THE SCREAMING STARTS' 

 

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#MONSTERMONDAY: REMEMBERING HERBERT LOM ON HIS BIRTHDAY

#MONSTERMONDAY Today we remember Herbert Lom a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years.

 Herbert Lom in Asylum (1972)

 Our FEATURE and REVIEW with GALLERY includes

BOTH Herbert Lom AMICUS performances SEE IT HERE!  :

Some of his best known roles are Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus in Pink Panther films & as Dr Roger Corderthe in the ITV TV series The Human Jungle.

 As the monster Henry Fengriffen in 'And Now The

Screaming Starts' (1973)

He co-starred with Peter Cushing in two films for Amicus, Asylum (1972) and And Now The Screaming Starts (1973).

The Dead Zone (1983)

Other notable horror films include The Phantom of The Opera (1962) for Hammer films, Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971) , The Dead Zone (1983) also Dark Places (1972) & Count Dracula (1970) both Christopher Lee...

One of best . . . and certainly my personal favorite . . . .  Chief Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther series . .  

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#MONSTERMONDAY: SCREAMING ALL THE WAY WITH SIR HENRY FENGRIFFEN

#MONSTERMONDAY: Today's monster is Sir Henry Fengriffen played by Herbert Lom from Amicus's 'And Now The Screaming Starts!' (1973) One of their few non-anthology horror films. 

THE FILM  was based on an obscure novella entitled `Fengriffin,' after the name of the cursed family line around which the story centres, though the film goes for a more 'shocking' sounding title courtesy of Max Rosenberg. The film boasts an impressive cast with Peter Cushing, Ian Olgivy, Stephanie Beacham & Patrick Magee.

PETER CUSHING'S DR POPE, arrives late too. It's not a performance that is going set any screen a flame, but Pope provides a calming influence, other than when he's pushing the buttons that reveals, what is causing all the spooky shenanigans. Sadly for our young couple, all does that not end well. It would have been interesting to have seen any audience response from pre-opening tests, if there were any. The final moments compete with Price's Witchfinder General  and 'Blood On Satan's Claw'. I would have guessed the schlocky title and that down beat ending didn't bring in good returns for the distributor or Amicus, thus bringing the company's short flirtation with period ghost stories, to a sudden end, setting the course firmly back on chartered waters, tried and tested . ..  the portmanteau film.  

ALTHOUGH HERBERT LOM is second-billed in the film, does not appear at all until the last quarter of the film, and only appears in an extended flashback sequence, however with the screen time he does have, he certainly make an impression.

 

How do you rate Herbert Lom's performance in the film?

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#GETTHECUSHING: THE AMICUS VAULT OF HORROR PART THREE

#GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY! Everyone really seems to have enjoyed Donald Fearney's 'The Amicus Vault of Horrors' mammoth definitive documentary that we have been uploading and sharing with you here and at our PCAS Youtube channel . .. so you'll be very pleased to hear here for your entertainment is the penultimate episode, PART THREE.... there are some great Cushing / Amicus classic in there...and we are not though yet... just one more episode to go, next week! Please send us your feedback and comment on the thread below, it's great to have such a huge resource about Peter's work with the legendary Amicus Films, and to read your opinions about those classic films! ENJOY!

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#GETTHECUSHION! REVENGE ON THE DEAD!

#GETHECUSHIONITSCUSHING! This week's clip is one of my personal Amicus favorite scenes... it stars Ian Ogily and Peter Cushing, 'And Now, The Screaming Starts' ...it's THAT scene in the cemetery! The rain, the thunder..the skeleton! It's a weird film, a bit of sprawling script, in being Amicus films only ghost story, it could have been helped a little with a more subtle title. 'An Now, the...' etc was Max Rosenberg's idea. He, The King of Subtly'..said nobody....ever. The Bride of Fengriffen' the title of the book that the script was based on, would have been much better, I feel....what say you?

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#ONSETSATURDAY ANNOTATED SCRIPT AND THAT WIG!

#‎onasetsaturday‬ : HERE'S A PAGE from Peter Cushing personal script for Amicus films, 'And Now The Screaming Starts' lots of notations from Peter in his own hand. Much here about his attention to detail concerning the costume, the boots and... that wig. Despite in later years, he support the opinion that the wig made him 'look like Helen Hayes'...it was at Peter's own request that the wig should be used and that he should wear it..'

PETER CUSHING'S own frame of reference to the wig he wore in 'And Now, The Screaming Starts', 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' and as Count Gerard De Merret in LA GRANDE BRETECHE, an episode of Anglia Television's popular series 'Orson Welles Great Mysteries' in 1973.

IN HIS NOTES above he has made reminder to make up and hair that, the 'back of wig should be round neck line' and '..full at sides, not flat on top'. The notes cover everything from the appearance of the boots or plimsolls, the colour of the trousers, his watch chain and gun... all researched, spot on and accurate for the period of the film... which uncharacteristically Cushing gives himself a little leeway with 1790...ISH!

Interestingly... a flick through our scrapbooks shows that Peter's association with this style of wig started way before 1973... it's first appearance turns up in this a very rare vintage Radio Times clipping from the BBC's BEAU BRUMMELL play, broadcast on 14th and 18th March 1954 with Peter as George Bryan Brummell...

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