Friday 23 September 2016

A MAN BEFORE HIS TIME AND ANOLIS REVIEW COMING SOON!


PETER CUSHING'S Baron Frankenstein is looking for a room, unfortunately for Anna Spengler, it's her boarding house, he has chosen! #Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Hammer 1969)


PRODUCER AND SCRIPTWRITER, Anthony Hinds, shares his thoughts on his time at Hammer films . . .


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Thursday 22 September 2016

CHA-CHA STAGE FOUR AT BRAY A CONE OF SILENCE AND RADIO DUSSELDORF


PETER CUSHING makes his entrance as Capt. Clive Judd in #CONEOFSILENCE (1960). Also in the cast, Michael Griag and Bernard Lee. Lee would turn up again in 1974 as Tarmutin Hammer's #FRANKENSTEIN and the Monster from Hell...Cushing's final hurrah as Baron Frankenstein.

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: An eclectic mix of subjects in this week's #TBT feature. One of the panels here below, features a radio play that Peter Cushing worked on in 1953. Almost forgotten, and maybe tucked away in a vault somewhere? MORE #TBT #PeterCushing next Thursday...!


#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: 1953... and Peter Cushing is at a radio station in Dusseldorf taking part in a broadcast of the P.N. Walker- Taylor play, 'Portrait by Peko' transmitted on August 31st. The play had been broadcast live by the BBC on the 23rd and 27th August.

EXCLUSIVE SMUGGLERS BOUNTY FUNKO POP DOLL : GRAND MOFF


#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: It's the Peter Cushing character that keeps on giving! Peter Cushing's #GRANDMOFFTARKIN is now one of the exclusive #bobbleheads in the range of #STARWARS characters!


I received a message on our Peter Cushing Facebook Fan Page tonight from Scott Jones, and what a treat it was!  Scott said, 'I thought you'd get a kick out of this. I received my first Smuggler's Bounty Funko box for this month and included was an exclusive Grand Moff Tarkin Funko Pop doll!!'!


ALL CREDIT to  Reily John  Joyce, who came up with this gag. Ha ! 

Now, this would be the kind of subject matter that would fit perfectly into out themes on #TOOCOOLTUESDAY...but this couldn't wait until next week, so I shared it tonight. Right away, a slow trickle of interest started, and soon some of you commented and messaged that you had wasted no time and jumped onto a 'well-known-sales-site' to purchase your very own #TARKINFUNKOPOPDOLL... it seems prices are god right now. So, if you are a collector, and #starwars #funkopopdolls are your thing, this could be the very next  thing you need to add to your collection!


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Wednesday 21 September 2016

BREAKER OF THE MOLD : WATSON WITH INTELLIGENCE AND STYLE : STOCK REMEMBERED PLUS GIFS


REMEMBER TODAY: NIGEL STOCK a superb Watson in the BBC 'Sherlock Holmes' television series of the 60's, with Peter Cushing as Holmes. Sadly, Stock left us in 1986, aged 66....Today would have been his birthday!



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#GIMMETHEGIF : HORRORS IN THE PET SHOP AND MURDERS IN A PARIS ZOO


THIS WEEK'S #GIMMETHEGIF Wednesday requests, brings a nice selection of moments from Peter Cushing's film and television performances. At the TOP, for D Brandshaw that shocking moment from the Hammer House of Horrors tv series, THE SILENT SCREAM (1980). Peter Cushing makes his last appearance in a Hammer film production.


NEXT IN THE ROW is that lovely money shot, from 'BIGGLES: ADVENTURES IN SPACE AND TIME' ....  where we find out,  just who is that suspicious shadowy figure! Tina Goodwin, this  is your GIF!


AND FINALLY a performance that does get much in the way of column inches, because it's been so long since anyone has actually seen the film! 'THE LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF' has gained more interest through being a film that STILL has no legitimate release on dvd or blu ray, than for being a very god film! Peter Cushing's performance has some very nice black comedy moments, and you get the impression, this is a film, that Cushing actually enjoyed making! C. Hughes, you made a great choice for your GIF request.. that look says it all really!


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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: HORSE DRAWN HEARSES AND DRACULA'S WOOLEN CARDIGAN


#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: TOO COOL ITEM NUMBER ONE: The Horse Drawn Hearse, as featured in Hammer films, 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave'. We are sure this hearse was featured in some other Hammer Films too. PERHAPS you would know which ones???


A point of interest for those who caught our photograph post on #ONSETSATURDAY of the old lady in the coffin, from the 1958 Dracula, with her blanket for comfort... Well, take look at what Veronica is sitting on in the back of the hearse? Someone's woolly cardigan! Dracula's? This is starting to get a bit 'strange'!


#TOOCOOLTUESDAY THAT HORSE DRAWN hearse again with Christopher Lee and Ewan Hooper in Hammer films, 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' 1968.



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Monday 19 September 2016

COMMANDER SCAR DANGEROUS OLD DUFFER FROM FLORIDA OR COOL KEEPER OF AQUA ZOMBIES?


IT'S #MONSTERMONDAY, where we start the week looking into the souls of the poor unfortunates who give us the fright factor in some of Peter Cushing's most chilling cinema classics! This week, for those of you who managed to catch Cushing's performance in the 1977 under water zombie fest 'SHOCK WAVES' ..we ask you to consider the following...was his character SCAR, a Monster? A Murderer and all-round -World War II Bad Egg OR the sad remnant of a terrible time in world history, just left alone to rot along with those 'sea bobbin' zom-bods? OR is SCAR a totally first class chap and ahead of his time, bringing us the very first Nazi-zombie genre flick, the terrifying cinematic concept of underwater -all-swimming-all flesh-munching-aqua-zombies?? YOU decide!



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NO TIME FOR RETIREMENT : ONCE AGAIN THE GAME IS AFOOT AND GIFS


CHRISTOPHER LEE PLAYED Sherlock Holmes three times in his career first in Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962) in which he was unfortunately dubbed by another actor, and twice more in the TV films Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) and Incident at Victoria Falls (1992) Not discussed as often as other roles in Lee's career, how do you rate his performances as Holmes?


CHRISTOPHER LEE as Sherlock Holmes with Morgan Fairchild and with Patrick MacNee as Dr Watson in TV film "Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady" (1991)




PETER CUSHING AS HIS OLDER SHERLOCK and Jenny Laird as Mrs Hudson..... proving even Sherlock Holmes gets stressed! And talking of stress, This 1984 film, The Masks of Death, Peter Cushing last performance as Sherlock, originally started as a project kick started by Tyburn films producer, Kevin Francis... it was to have been a new version of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Francis intended to cast Peter as Holmes, which would have been Cushing's third take on the Doyle tale, after the 1959 Hammer production and the two-part production for the 1968 television series..it was to have featured a stop-motion dog created by Ray Harryhausen!


However, STRESS....funding for the proposed film collapsed, and that led to Francis discussing an original tale with Hammer films writer Anthony Hinds. Peter Cushing considered Sherlock Holmes to be his favorite role but now with his age, Cushing being in his 70s, it required the part to be written for a much older Holmes....so Holmes was brought out of retirement and 'The Masks of Death' was born!

Sunday 18 September 2016

A SPECIAL DAY : A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY GIRL : GIFS PICS GOODIES AWARDS AND WATER HORROR!


A SPECIAL DAY.. A SPECIAL BIRTHDAY: Join us in wishing VERONICA CARLSON a VERY Happy Birthday TODAY!



ITS A WATER-HORROR MOMENT for Veronica Carlson in Hammer films 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) starring Peter Cushing, Freddie Jones and Simon Ward.


An AMAZING PORTRAIT of  Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein,  a great  example of Veronica Carlson's skill as an artist.


Probably the most suspenseful scene in the entire movie 'The Ghoul' (1975) with Veronica again cast with Peter Cushing . . . 


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