NEWS: You might remember the #PCASUK News post we made back in April last year ( See second image in this album) . . It covers the fact that #MaryShelley, author of the classic novel '#Frankenstein', wrote the book during 1817 in the historical city of Bath . . and we brought the breaking news of a plan to open a Mary Shelley 'Frankenstein' themed museum in the city of #Bath, England to celebrate 'Where Shelley created' the nightmare story that went on to spawn it's own industry on stage, film tv and fascinate millions of Gothic loving fans and readers ! Well, IT'S ALIVE! Great news, the plan has come to LIFE and the museum. 'Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein' opens in a few weeks time, on JUNE 30th 2021! We'll be bringing you some more updates and news, as the opening comes closer.
LAST YEARS PCASUK NEWS POST BELOW!
FOR DECADES the character of #BaronFrankenstein has fascinated audiences with new theatre, television and cinema
productions being produced every year. And it is maybe this and the fact
that that the company behind the Frankenstein Museum , Bath Attractions
. . is based in the very city where Shelley wrote the iconic
'Frankenstein' novel in 1818!
IT WAS THE ROLE THAT nailed #PeterCushing
to the movie map and made both him and Christopher Lee into household
names, with a mini budget movie produced by an even smaller UK film
company called, #Hammerfilms. Jimmy Sangster wrote a scaled down script of the classic novel by Mary Shelley, #Britishfilm
director, Terence Fisher called the shots, and 'The Curse of
Frankenstein' not only hit huge box office success, it also change the
style of horror films and rebooted the Frankenstein film forever!
Peter
Cushing would go to appear in a further FIVE Frankenstein films for
Hammer. 'The Curse of Frankenstein' also presented Christopher Lee as a
very different 'monster-creation', his appearance compared to that of
the traditional Universal #BorisKarloff / Jack Pearce make-up artist style, was quite a different creature. Hammer films continued their #Frankenstein
series, but again in a different direction to the Universal horror
films. In a clever turn, they created a focus on adventures of The Baron
himself, instead of the '#TheMonster'.
It was a brilliant and box office friendly plan, as not only did the
audience get a different creation for every new story and title, but
also Cushing's amazing Baron for the price of one ticket! READ ON . .
NEWS : PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN UP for ‘Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein’ to celebrate the author’s “extraordinary life and her most lauded work” - much of which was penned in the Somerset city. Bath Attractions Ltd are planning to convert Grade II-listed offices in Gay Street - a few doors up from the Jane Austen Centre - and hope it could open later this year. The planning application says: “Mary#Shelley’s House of Frankenstein'' is a new multi-sensory, fully immersive family-friendly visitor attraction proposed for the City of #Bath, and the UK’s first attraction dedicated to Mary Shelley and her novel, Frankenstein , one of the world’s most famous, iconic and lauded creations.
“Exploring
her complicated and tragic personal life, literary career and the
novel’s continuing relevance today in regards to popular culture,
politics and science, the attraction aims to deliver a sophisticated,
entertaining and visceral experience like no other, and one which we
hope the city of Bath can be proud of.”
THE
AUTHOR'S LINKS to Bath are commemorated on a plaque at the site of 5
Abbey Church Yard, where she took lodgings arriving in the city in
September 1816, then named Mary Wollstenecraft Godwin. It was there that
she wrote much of Frankenstein, which was published anonymously in 1818
and is now regarded as the world’s first science fiction novel. We'll
keep you posted of any more news!
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