Following on from our HEADS UP on Friday...here's a reminder to friends in the UK, that Hammer films 1958 DRACULA gets a screening tonight on BBC4 at 22.00 ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vffvv Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing meet for the first time in this UNCUT classic! AND here's a great feature compete with LOBBY STILLS and VINTAGE trailer frames to whet your appetite at our website: http://petercushingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/peter-cushing-and-christopher-lee.html
Monday 20 October 2014
BBC4 SCREENS CLASSIC HAMMER DRACULA 1958 TONIGHT!
Following on from our HEADS UP on Friday...here's a reminder to friends in the UK, that Hammer films 1958 DRACULA gets a screening tonight on BBC4 at 22.00 ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vffvv Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing meet for the first time in this UNCUT classic! AND here's a great feature compete with LOBBY STILLS and VINTAGE trailer frames to whet your appetite at our website: http://petercushingblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/peter-cushing-and-christopher-lee.html
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Sunday 19 October 2014
DEAD GOOD PRIZES TO COME! PCASUK HALLOWEEN COMPETITION 2014
Dead Good Prizes... your PCASUK Halloween Competition for 2014.
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SIMON WARD REMEMBERED : THE BARON'S APPRENTICE!
REMEMBERING: Born today, Simon Ward. If you
take a look at the raft of obituaries for Simon Ward who sadly passed
away in 2012, it's a common fault that they state that his career was
kick started when he was 'plucked from obscurity' and appeared
in Richard Richard Attenborough’s 'Young Winston' in 1972. Maybe that
is how the press and publicity agents remember it....but for Ward, it
was not so.
Ward
acknowledged Hammer films 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' made in 1969
as the film 'that started it all' and the generous help and assistance
from his co star Peter Cushing, that made anything afterwards
possible... In a interview with pcasuk in 1979, Ward acknowledges his
debt to Cushing, who he said, '..had time and patience with me. I knew
nothing of the technique needed for working with a camera or about the
studio floor. Peter was extremely kind, taking time to explain the
simple but very important rules of pace and nuance, so the editor can
get in there. This and try to not fall over the cables. He did so much
for me. Quite extraordinary. I mean, no one has the time to do that,
everyone is busy. But he did it for me, many times through out the film.
And it's something I've always remembered, and not come across since...
a very kind, gentle, gracious man. He really did save my skin'.
Simon Ward
sadly left us in 2012.
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Saturday 18 October 2014
SHOCK WAVES: ON SET SATURDAY : PETER CUSHING WHITE GLOVE AND MAKE UP!
#onsetsaturday
2# : Peter Cushing in the make up chair getting his character's
signature 'scar' in 'SHOCK WAVES' aka 'DEATH CORP' aka 'ALMOST
HUMAN'.... soon to be released on blu ray and on limited cinema release!
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THE GORGON 50TH BIRTHDAY AND A TELLING TALE FROM BARBARA SHELLEY
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Friday 17 October 2014
50 YEARS OLD TODAY: HAPPY BIRTHDAY 'THE GORGON'
It's a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to a grand ol lady!
It's 50 years today that Hammer films 'THE GORGON' hit the big screen.
Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard
Pasco it certainly qualifies as one of Hammer films marquee titles. Made
at Bray studios and directed by Terence Fisher. This post is dedicated
to our 'number one' resident Gorgon fan, Joshua 'Mageara' Kennedy!
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Thursday 16 October 2014
REMEMBERING ROBERT URQUHART : BORN TODAY 1921
REMEMBERING Robert Urquhart. 'Quiet, well-read
and a lover of classical music, Robert Urquhart was an actor who grew
frustrated with his career as he grew older. It was, he bemoaned, an
honorable profession but so much of the material he was offered did not deserve any respect...' Robert Urquhart Obituary. 'The Independent' newspaper, 24th March 1995.
In the early
1950's Urquhart was building himself quite a reputation for his theatre
work. A reputation that would eventually bring him to the attention of
studio casting agents and land him supporting roles on the big screen.
But it was in the medium of film, that Urquhart was not such a happy
chap...
That one film
was 'The Curse of Frankenstein' with Peter Cushing in 1957 for Hammer
film. He detested it. It is said he left the premier screening, refused
to make appearances to promote it and only in the last years of his
revived career on television, could he find the stomach to even mention
it, if it was brought up in interviews.
By 1980,
Urquhart had cooled off a little..and appeared in another Hammer
production, the Hammer House of Horror' television series, in an episode
entitled, - Children of the Full Moon. However, we remember him today
for his sterling performance in The Curse of Frankenstein'!
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Tuesday 14 October 2014
FAMOUS MONSTERS: APRIL 1977: HAMMER FILMS DRACULA SERIES : THE YEARS OF FEAR!
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Monday 13 October 2014
SEVEN FOOT TALL AND ALL FLESH AND BONES! #MONSTERMONDAY TAKES IN 'THE CREEPING FLESH'
This #MONSTERMONDAY we ask you to consider the
creep credentials of a skeleton with a difference...It doesn't sound
very frightening... a paleontological bag-of-bones discovered in Papua
New Guinea....and the 7ft tall skeleton doesn't do very
much for the first hour of 'The Creeping Flesh'. However... chop off a
digit and 'just add water..!'...and it becomes a flesh creeping, bone
chilling tower of revenge. How do we rate this MONSTER?
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Sunday 12 October 2014
HALLOWEEN COMPETITION 2014 : PETER CUSHING HAMMER FILMS 80TH BIRTHDAY AND MUCH MORE MORE!
The UK Peter Cushing Appreciation Society
Halloween Competition 2014! Launches on FRIDAY OCTOBER 31st .... winners
names will be announced on SUNDAY 9th NOVEMBER, the week of HAMMER
FILMS 80th Birthday! STAY CLOSE for more details..
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