#WATCHPARTY 'DARK PLACES' 1974 CHRISTOPHER LEE JOAN COLLINS AND HERBERT LOM!

JUST POSTED AT FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE one of the last of our PCASUK #WATCHWITHCUSHING Facebook #WATCHPARTIES in our quest to entertain during the #LOCK-DOWN period of the last three months! 'DARK PLACES' is one of few lesser seen films of Christopher Lee. It's a ghost story, with a few twists and some nice little surprises. It's a film of time... when it was produced back in 1974, but a lot of fun.

 

VAMPIRE HUNTERS : HAMMER FILMS : VAN HELSING TO KRONOS WHEN IT WAS ALL CHANGE!

#HAMMERFILMS #VAMPIREHUNTERS : HAMMER were quite brave and sometimes successful, if a little too late when they moved with times . . a tweak and change with style was something they also tried with their vampires and vampire hunters. One of the best and most imaginative was '#CaptainKronos : Vampire Hunter'.. with very entertaining side kick Grost and charm and sassy attitude from #CarlineMunro, it looked like a game changer, but sadly not to be. A real loss, me thinks ☹️😕 Over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE I am asking if everyone would rate this film and some of its qualities alongside #PeterCushing's #VanHelsing and a film like, 'The Brides of #Dracula' .. or no?? - Marcus

NOW LIVE: WIN WARNER BROTHERS 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' BLU RAY : PCAS HALLOWEEN 019 COMPETITION

PETER CUSHING APPRECIATION SOCIETY HALLOWEEN 019 COMPETITION

THE COMPETITION!
IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN and as usual, it's another PCAS competition, and a chance to bag yourself a Peter Cushing goody! Are you UP FOR IT? If so, if YOU are ready...here we go . . 😀

THE PRIZE!
THIS YEAR, thanks to the very generous team at Warner Brothers, we have A PAIR of fabulous remastered BLU RAYS to give away. No doubt you have seen our features on their superb and very recent release of Amicus Films 1974 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' . . the last of the portmanteau Amicus films series to finally get to Blu Ray.. and what an amazing job they have made of the release! TWO very lucky contenders have the chance of winning a copy.
The blu rays are REGION FREE.

ABOUT THE BLU RAY:
'From Beyond the Grave', boost quite an amazing cast including Peter Cushing, David Warner, Ian Bannen, Donald Pleasence, Lesley-Anne Down, Diana Dors, Margaret Leighton. Sadly, it was last of the Amicus multiple -story films when produced in 1974. Directed by horror director Kevin Connor, produced by Milton Subotsky and based on stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, it is held together by what first appears to be simple frame work story 😉 Four customers purchase (or take) items from Temptations Limited, an antiques shop whose motto is "Offers You Cannot Resist". But, a nasty fate awaits those who try to cheat the shop's proprietor . . . Peter Cushing. 

MORE INFO ON THE PRIZE!
YOU can read all about the BLU RAY in our PCAS REVIEW and Gallery Feature at the PCAS website : HERE 
 

 

HOW DO YOU ENTER?
All you have to do is ANSWER the Competition Question CORRECTLY and send your answer in a message to us, using the Facebook MESSAGE / Contact Button. You'll find it at the top of this page, on the RIGHT, under our main ID Banner. PLEASE do not send your answer on the thread or the comments thread under this post. Any entries / answers posted there will be deleted and the made void. This competition, like ALL PCAS Competitions is open to EVERYONE, who ever you are are, where ever you are !

THE QUESTION!

The title sequence and the trailer for 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' features a quite famous, actual cemetery. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT CEMETERY.

PICK ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS:
A: THE DEAD CENTER OF LONDON
B: MILTONMAX CEMETERY
C: STOKERVILLE CEMETERY
D: HIGHGATE CEMETERY
F: HIGH PITCH CEMETERY

WHEN YOU HAVE CHOSEN YOUR ANSWER, PLEASE SEND IT TO US VIA OUR EMAIL ADDRESS: THEBLACKBOXCLUB@GMAIL.COM
 

WHEN IS TIME UP?
This Competition CLOSES on SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9TH at MIDNIGHT.
 

HOW WE PICK THE WINNERS!
All correct answers, will printed onto separate notes of paper, will be placed in a large top hat and the first two drawn from the hat will be declared the WINNERS! Both winners will be notified via facebook and names announced on our PCAS Facebook Fan Page on Sunday November 10th by mid day GMT.

 
CAN'T WAIT? WANT IT NOW?
YOU can purchase YOUR copy, direct from the Warner Brothers archive Store here: HERE!

WE ARE GRATEFUL TO OUR SPONSOR . .
Again many THANKS to Warner Brothers, in again supporting another PCAS Competition! 

HAVE A SAFE AND FABULOUS HALLOWEEN!
GOOD LUCK EVERYONE 😀

LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS AND REMEMBERING CHARLES GRAY : MYCROFT : MOCATA : ROCKY HORROR!

TODAY WE REMEMBER Charles Gray, who is best remembered for his outstanding performance as the evil Mocata opposite Christopher Lee in Hammer’s The Devil Rides Out (1968) and his role as 'the narrator' in 'The Rocky Horror Show' … other memorable roles in include Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Mycroft Holmes in The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes TV Series… His Peter Cushing connection is that he co-stared with him in Amucis’s film The Beast Must Die (1974)

MORE ON THE BEAST MUST DIE HERE!

THIS WEEKS MAGAZINE FOCUS centres on a weird little UK series called. 'LEGEND HORROR CLASSICS'  Riding on the popularity of the UK Monster Mag, this too was a fold out eight panel affair. There was no huge flip side poster, instead a whole comic strip adaption of a 'Horror Classic' film. The first issue arrived in time for the release of the Dan Curtis adaption of DRACULA starring Jack Palance and Simon Ward. The whole thing sadly was stretched rather thin, with what room there was for editorial, the writing was rather limp and sparse. The comic strip art, was no way in the same league as the 'Hammer House of Horror' magazines, that were to follow, but as a 25 pence pocket money treat it gave a good deal to any youngsters, finding the likes of Hammer films, Cushing and Lee for the first time.  

EVEN THOUGH THE FOCUS was on the Curtis 1974 DRACULA release, both CUSHING and LEE are given a full page picture treatment, with PC looking rather funky in a comic art dotex version of the very familiar publicity photograph BARON from 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN'. Lee is represented in a still from 'DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE' ... though in neither pics, are the titles of the films given, and that sadly is the overall standard of all the magazines, in this series . .  little in the way learning or anything any fan would find new or interesting, even back in 1974!  

THE SECOND ISSUE had a 'Frankenstein' theme based primarily on the 1931 Universal film, although Victor Frankenstein was drawn to resemble Peter Cushing, in some of the Hammer series. Later the theme and comic strip  covered The 7th Voyage of Sinbad in issue 3, Blood Lust of the Zombies in issue 4, Hammer's Dracula has Risen from the Grave, under the strange title of "Dracula Must be Destroyed") in issue 5, Terror from Space was issue 6 and the story of Beowulf in issue 7. The comic stories from issue three became at times quite bizarre, and the connection with what were 'horror classics' either from cinema or TV, floated away and from issue 10, the magazine no longer carried comic strip adaption or stories.

KEVIN O'NEILL, who would also go on to work on that other 70's horror film mag, WORLD OF HORROR and the comic 2000 AD, was closely involved with the publication, providing some of the comic strips and serving as art editor, before becoming editor. Though little. if any of the comic adaptions ever came any where close to the benchmark that Hammer House of Horror would roll out, this magazine, was probably in the beginning aimed at a younger market, and in that case, one can see why, the issues lack any real maturity or muscle. For us Horror Film Fans, it was better than nothing and certainly whet our whistles, while we waited for, what was yet to come . .  

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THE WHOLE TOOTH AND NOTHING BUT! ALSO SOMEONE IS SNOOZING! WHO IS THAT???

FOR MUCH OF HIS PROFESSIONAL CAREER from 1948 onwards, wore a front denture. Loosing the tooth came in handy during the making of the BBC production of George Orwell's '1984' in 1954. Never one to miss an opportunity to use props, some business, or indeed anything that would add authenticity to his performance, Cushing REMOVED his 'one tooth plate'  for the horrifying 'Room 101' scenes in the climax of the television drama. It really enhances his emaciated and broken appearance. Vanity never got in the way, of Cushing's quest in perfecting a role. This week's TOUGHY QUESTION is 'HOW DID PETER CUSHING LOOSE THAT TOOTH?' 

THIS QUESTION AND POST has also been posted at our PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE where followers comment and debate this question and all of our posts here, every day! Please feel free to join the page. You'll be most welcome. JUST CLICK HERE and the CLICK LIKE THERE! 

AN EXTRA QUESTION  for you this week! #TOOCOOLTUESDAY! Someone is having a SNOOZE! Can you name the actor, the name of the film and his co-star? Like our TOUGHY question this post is ALSO LIVE at our FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE Please free to join us there to discuss and maybe answer this question and post your ANSWER in our thread!

BELOW THE ANSWER TO LAST WEEK'S TUESDAY TOUGHY!

BOTH PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE starred in episodes of the television SCI FI DRAMA series SPACE 1999. LEE'S played Captain Zantor in an episode was entitled 'EARTHBOUND' and was broadcast on December 4th 1975.

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