BOOBS EYES TEETH AND CHICKENS! THE LITTLE EXTRA SASS AND BRUSH WORK FROM THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY DEPT

PRESS OFFICE and PUBLICITY often did incredible and great work, promoting #PeterCushing movies. It's a TOUGH job, but if the current film that is about to be released is a bit of a dud, it's at times like these, the press office would take a little licence and ADD a few spices, half-truths and magic cogs, to the wheels of the publicity machine. Here are a just few, that turned up in some of Cushing's and Hammer movies.. oh and a MOTH from Tigon! Can you think of ANY others?? - Marcus

 

THE ONE TIME the press office 'over-egged it!' The publicity Dept commissioned poster artist Tom Chantrell to design a cinema poster for the Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, last Dracula film together. 

 

Chantrell remembered the pose of the Count he included in Hammer's 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' and tweaked it, to include a sacrificial rooster - cockerel in Dracula's hand! This was a little much for the British censor, who gave a No. This time, a scene with the bird, WAS actually included in the film, that was no fiction. But gutted poultry on a cinema poster was seen, as a little too much. ... how things changed!

 

FIND TOM CHANTRELL's website and posters : HERE!

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