NEWS EXTRA FEATURES ON INDICATOR REMASTERED 2K 'I MONSTER' BLU RAY REVEALED PLUS EXCLUSIVE LEE INTERVIEW FOR THEIR FU MANCHI BLU RAY TOO!

#NEWS!Here is the #list of #EXTRAS goodies that we can expect on INDICATOR'S 28th of September Blu Ray release of the Amicus #ChristopherLee and #PeterCushing 1971 feature, #IMONSTER. These impressive details were released in a INDICATOR post today! It looks like this will be a much awaited title getting some EXTRA needed attention and a ANOTHER great release from #Indicator! Over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page we are asking if there is anything not included on the list here, that you would have liked to have seen added????. We think it's an impressive list of extras, and INDICATOR certainly gets a vote from us for the variety! It's a bargain purchase price too for a World Wide Premier release, with a rub of only 5,000 units to scoop up! Want YOUR copy? I'd get my order in NOW! ORDER HERE!

ABOVE : A GREAT section of the PCASUK Two Part Feature and Gallery on the Amicus 1971 film, 'I MONSTER' starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. 'Creating A Monster' is a photo by photo study, using RARE STILLS taken in Harry Framton's make up room, during the making of I MONSTER at Shepperton Studios. See #ChristopherLee transform under the magic hands of Frampton!  RIGHT HERE!

MORE EXCITING INDICATOR NEWS IS, we noticed #ChristopherLee was #Trending on #Twitter today! The reason, is impressive too! The #Indicator tweet give some great news on their FU MANCHU box set and that one of the features included in the release is going to be, Christopher Lee's 1994 London Film Festival interview, which is a HUGE plus is a huge plus, as the interview will be presented for the first time ever, and in full - all 87 minutes! It's the extras on many of their releases, just like this one like, truly makes Indicator such a leader in home cinema Remastered blu rays and box set releases. Top Marks for Indicator!

TCM : TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES MAKES PETER CUSHING STAR OF THE MONTH WITH TWENTY TWO GREAT TITLES TO ENJOY!

NEXT MONTH OCTOBER! #TurnerClassicMovies has #PETERCUSHING as their #STAROFTHEMONTH and is screening a whole mass of some of his best work during October! Take a look at these titles.. There's 15 'horror films' and seven very cool dramas, including the rare 1967 'Some May Live' ANY of YOUR Favourites Cushing Frighteners in HERE? 😀- Marcus

Monday October 5th

CASH ON DEMAND (1961)
THE END OF THE AFFAIR (1955)
TIME WITHOUT PITY (1957)
JOHN PAUL JONES (1959)
HAMLET (1948)

Monday October 12th

SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960)
DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS (1965)
DALEKS - INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D. (1966)
SHE (1965)
VIOLENT PLAYGROUND (1958)
IN SAIGON: SOME MAY LIVE (1967)

Monday October 19th

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)
HORROR OF DRACULA (1958)
THE MUMMY (1959)
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957)
FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN (1967)
FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED! (1970) 

Monday October 26th

NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT (1972)
MADHOUSE (1974)
FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (1973)
SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1970)
THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1973)
DRACULA A.D. 1972 (1972)

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CHRISTOPHER LEE SATURDAY: REMEMBERING JIMMY SANGSTER BY CALLUM MCKELVIE

Today we remember Jimmy Sangster who would have been eighty-nine today. The welsh born screenwriter contributed his first script for the company as early as 1956, when for £200 he delivered X The Unknown. Sangster went on to become one of the key figures in Hammers crew, scripting both the ground-breaking adaptations The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. It’s well known that Cushing was not particularly fond of Sangster’s dialogue, yet he’s always been a screen-writer who I personally admire greatly.

It’s often been stated how clever these two adaptations are, Sangster’s interpreting of the Baron into a more debonair villainous figure and how he cleverly keeps the nuts and bolts of Stokers novel, but manages to keep it all in Transylvania, prime examples of this. More than this however, Sangster re-interpreted the Gothic with an added energy and pace, including a slew of action sequences that have gone on to be remembered as some of the greatest in the history of horror cinema. 

Even Sangster’s non-Hammer contributions to the horror genre are impressive, demonstrating immense talent. His late 1950’s films, The Trollenberg Terror, Blood of the Vampire and Jack the Ripper all have an edge of nastiness to them that made his work for Hammer so appealing. The final one in particular, whilst falling somewhat into obscurity is remembered for an incredibly gruesome ending. 

In 1972 Sangster also contributed one of the more popular Kolchak: The Night Stalker episodes ‘Horror in the Heights’, an incredibly dark and moving tale concerning an ancient Hindu spirit hunting down the elderly residents of a Jewish neighborhood.

This all pales in comparison to what I consider both his and Cushing’s greatest work, 1958’s The Revenge of Frankenstein. As far as sequels go Sangster avoids a rehash of the first film, taking both the character of the Baron and the story in new and exciting directions. From the Barons brain transplants resulting in the reversion of man into animalistic cannibalistic creatures, to the Baron himself no longer being the pupil but now the teacher.

Judy Geeson, Director Jimmy Sangster and Peter Cushing taking a rest
 and a cuppa during the shooting of Hammer Films 'Fear In The Night' (1972)

Jimmy Sangster with Ralph Bates

As its Christopher Lee Saturday it seems appropriate to discuss one of his and Lee's most popular contridutions Dracula Prince Of Darkness. Lee often commented that the dialogue within this sequel was so awful that he chose not to speak any of it at all. Again, having not read or being aware of the orignal dialogue what remains is delightfully entertaining and the plotting itself is once again remarkably clever.

Sangster expertly picks up the most obvious elements from Stokers novel that missed out on the first time, Thorley Walters Ludwig springs to mind, of course being an interpretation of the Renfield character along with Jonathan Harker's night in Dracula's castle forming the basis for the first act. 

He also makes some particularly braves choices, keeping Dracula off of the screen for the first forty or so minutes of the film and instead slowly building to his resurrection.

Instead if simply giving us a Val Helsing clone, Sangster creates an entirely new character in the form of Father Sandor, who would prove so that Dez Skinn would give him his own comic series in the pages of Hammer Halls of Horror.

Like Revenge before it Prince Of Darkness shows Sangster's writing can make the first sequel one of the most interesting entries in the series.    

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