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Showing posts with label appreciation. Show all posts

Tuesday 11 December 2018

WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED HORROR OF DRACULA BLU RAY COMPETITION NOW LIVE!


AS PROMISED our LAST competition for this year, has been launched today on the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE AND what a prize! 😲 With many thanks to our sponsors at Warner Brothers..we have a PAIR of their latest Peter Cushing Hammer film release... their REMASTERED blu ray of the restored BFI print of Hammer films 1958 DRACULA! All you have to do is guess the answer to our VISUAL competition. 


AS USUAL I have to ask that you DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER ON THE PAGE... send it to us using the SEND MESSAGE button UNDER THE COMPETITION BANNER Any answers or entries posted on the COMMENTS thread will be deleted and not counted as an entry. The competition CLOSES on Wednesday 19th December 2018. So get your ENTRY in now...and maybe you would like to give us a LIKE too? I'd be most grateful 😌😉 Have fun and GOOD LUCK! - Marcus


JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK to the WARNER BROTHERS SHOP site, where you can also purchase your copy of this release!




READ MORE on Hammer films DRACULA and the role that Peter Cushing played in FIVE Hammer DRACULA sequels as the arch Vampire Hunter, that influenced others who were to come . . THE TRIALS OF VAN HELSING: HERE! 




Wednesday 21 November 2018

WIN SIGNED COLLECTABLE RARE CHRISTOPHER LEE FRAMED PORTRAIT : OUR LAST WARNER BROTHERS DRACULA AD COMPETITION


AND SO... HERE WE GO: The last of our competitions celebrating Warner Brothers release of two fantastic remastered blu rays Hammer films, 'Dracula AD 1972' and 'The Satanic Rites Of Dracula' both starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee It's a rare and collectable prize and a competition that's little more fun maybe. The first of the five questions will arrive here today, with four more to follow, one a day, until the FINAL QUESTION on Saturday 24th November at midnight GMT. If you have any questions about the competition, the prize or what to have for dinner this evening, please don;t hesistate hesitate to email us HERE!


ABOVE is our FIRST QUESTION of FIVE, that will be posted here over the next FIVE DAYS, the final question, question FIVE on Saturday 24th when the competition closes at midnight GMT. Answer this question, keep your answer SAFE, because come Saturday, you'll be asked to send ALL five of your answers by EMAIL to us here at PCASUK! PLEASE do not post your answer to us today OR message them in the website message box. Question TWO will be posted here on the website TOMORROW 🙂 The prize, as you probably know by now, is a rare and collectable colour autographed frame photograph of Christopher Lee from 'Dracula AD 1972'. It's in mint condition, one of two that I personally own. The framed photograph was donated by Hammer Art back in 2011. It was signed in 2012, along with another exact version of what was being signed. Today is the day, I am giving one away as a prize😀 The frame with the photograph is 20 x 14.5″ in size, printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper 315gsm and was one of ONLY TEN in a limited edition. You can also if you wish, chat and enter the competition at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE Meanwhile, have fun with this and GOOD LUCK Everyone! 😊 - Marcus

Wednesday 24 October 2018

FOUR CUSHING NETWORK PREMIERS ROLLING OUT IN NOVEMBER!


NEWS: From November 3rd, Horror Channel celebrates vintage 1950s home-grown fantasy and horror with a HAMMER CLASSICS SEASON on SATURDAY NIGHTS! This primetime Saturday night season, is rolling out FOUR network premieres, which star Peter Cushing, and kicks off with Val Guest’s atmospheric masterpiece, 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN', The other three, are all directed by Terence Fisher: Cushing and Lee's FIRST Hammer film, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957), the hypnotically sensual and ground breaking DRACULA (1958), which launched Cushing and Christopher Lee into global stardom, and THE MUMMY (1959). All FOUR make for splendid Saturday Night shocks...and a wonderful introduction to anyone who wants to sample the amazing work of Hammer, Cushing and Lee. What a TRIO! AND WE AT PCAS will be watching them too. We'll be FLAGGING UP a post to remind you of the BROADCAST and invting you to watch too and join us for a chat on the movie after on our FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! PLEASE come and JOIN US!


THE SEASON season kicks off first with : Sat 3 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN' (1957) – *Network Premiere : THEN Sat 10 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN' (1957) * Network Premiere, Sat 17 Nov @ 21:00 – 'DRACULA' (1958) *Network Premiere and finally, Sat 24 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE MUMMY' (1959) *Network Premiere. A GREAT line up! - Marcus


THE PCAS REVIEW AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS, 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN'



THE PCAS FEATURE AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS,  'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN'



THE PCAS FULL FEATURE AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS 'DRACULA'



PCASUK INVITES TROY HOWARTH to travel through the HISTORY of the MUMMYfilms and Hammer films, classic THE MUMMY from 1959.JUST CLICK HERE!

Tuesday 16 October 2018

NEWS: DRACULA RESSURECTED AND LOOKING AMAZING ON WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED BLU RAY


NEWS: TOMORROW IT ARRIVES! WARNER BROTHERS REMASTEDED BLU RAY RELEASE of Hammer films DRACULA AD 1972 is available FROM TOMORROW 16TH OCTOBER on AMAZON. If you are one of the few followers of Peter Cushing;s work or a fab of Hammer films and have never had the chance to see this film, and know little, brace yourself for opinions and reviews about the filma dnthis release, that will run the whole gumit from A to Z. Hammer Dracula fans tend to dislike like everything about it, while those of us, who maybe grew up in the 1970's see this as a nostalgic connection, to world and era that is usally based in the 18 or 19 hundreds! ASs a teenager in the 70's, I too wasn't a fan of the film. But then, I grew up and could then appreciate the humour and subtiies of the plot and the style of teh film. Now, it's one of my all time favs of Hammer films and the fantasy output of Cushing's and Lee's careers. For those who sadly wrestle and still have sleepless nights and can't recover or relate to the end title shot in DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, (Why is that castle blaconey so FAR WAY from the brass cross that Dracula fell onto? Why oh why oh why???) the REMASTERING and fine presentation, of this Warner Brothers Archive Collection release will offer little. But for those of us who love the film, EVERYTHING is there, and wonderfully prestine and sharp!


DESPITE WHAT MAYBE THOUGHT ABOUT THE STORY CONTENT of this 1972 release, you ceratinly can't criticise the REMASTERING. If you too loved and appreciated the quality of the 'Warner Brothers Hammer Horror Classics Collection', RESTORED FIVE Hammer film BLU RAY BOX SET two years ago, then you are in for a treat. DRACULA AD 1972 was previously released on a German Blu-Ray, this was based on the same transfer created for the 2005 DVD release for multiple regions. Word has it that, The Warner Archive Collection reviewed that particular transfer and rejected it as . . . unusable.


THIS WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray, has been made from a NEW 2K scan by Warner's MPI facility of a recently manufactured interpositive. Color correction was performed using Ektrachrome transparencies, and thousands of instances of dirt, scratches and age-related damage were REPAIRED BY HAND, frame by frame. There are sadly no extras except for DRACULA AD 1972 trailer on this release, but for those of us who have waited a long time for this particular film  . . AND The Satanic Rites of Dracula, to be released soon.. to be remastered and presented on Blu Ray, visuals and audio are an amazing bonus in themselves. 




ABOVE : COVER FROM MY VHS COPY. BOTH THIS AND MY DVD CAN NOW TAKE A HAPPY AND WELL DESERVED RETIREMENT!




 

Wednesday 18 July 2018

SUPRISE CORRECTIONS FOR FANS AFTER MANY YEARS ON!


IF YOU EVER posted your much prized copy of Peter Cushing's second autobiography, 'PAST FORGETTING' to him at his home in Whitstable in 1988 for him to sign, you may have been one of the lucky ones, to also get a little extra! The printing run of the book unfortunately had a few printers typo errors, on pages 92, 10 and 14 . . which when Peter was signing your copy, he also took the time and trouble to correct those errors, with his most unmistakeable fountain pen and handwriting. Here is an example of those pages with his corrections. Quite a few of our followers at the the PCASUK Facebook Fan Page have posted on the thread of this post today, also telling us they too have found corrections on their signed copy . . bit only found it either today or quite recently! It's just as well he isn't around to see some of MY regular typos hereat the website and on the PCAS Facebook Page . . they would keep him very busy! Many thanks to my good friend, Linda King for sharing the pages of her copy!



YOU'LL FIND TODAY'S POST AND AN ARCHIVE OF MOST OF OUR PCASUK WEBSITE POSTS FROM THE LAST EIGHT YEARS AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! IF YOU ENJOY OUR POSTS AND WANT TO COMMENT OR DISCUSS THE WORK AND LIFE OF PETER CUSHING, COME AND JOIN OVER THIRTY THREE THOUSAND OTHERS, AND TAKE PART IN THE OLDEST PETER CUSHING FAN CLUB, NOW ON FACEBOOK BOOK! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CLICK HERE  AND THEN CLICK LIKE THERE! YOU'LL BE MOST WELCOME!

Sunday 25 February 2018

DON'T FORGET OUR COMPETITION AND WHY OUR FACEBOOK FAN PAGE MAYBE CLOSING VERY SOON . .


HERE IS A REMINDER  of what could be the very LAST competition we ever post here on  Peter Cushing Appreciation society Facebook Fan Page. Posting there today, I requested that I would  VERY much appreciate it, if our over 33 Thousand followers, would could click LIKE on this post, as soon as they saw it, so I can see how many are actually seeing the posts posted there. Facebook has proven to be extremely trying and  brought in some very odd habits over the last year, for ANYONE trying to build communication and fun, with people who have joined the page. It has become so frustrating, that despite we only seeing between 20 and 100 of our OVER 33,000 followers clicking like, it feels like the time has come, to actually close this FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. 


ABOVE: THE DAMAGING AND manipulative action FACEBOOK has brought into hiding our posts from people who WANT to see our daily posts . . . by not paying for Facebooks so called boosting, gives Facebook the right to hide anyone's posts . . . 


ABOVE:The results of MAKE or BREAK future depends on followers taking this action. It simplies lets you see our posts, or facebook will hide them... as yet few have made this choice, so we can only guess, people don't want our posts on Facebook...there fore, we will now focus ALL posts every day, HERE at the PCAS website . . .less trouble, and all ready and very clean following, PLUS no Facebook playing games . .   

TODAY I DECIDED to encourage our followers who click like, comment and engage regularly at the PCAS,  to see if we could get an accurate total as how many ARE seeing our likes, following FACEBOOKS recent restructuring, to see of it was still worth while to post several times and day, base our PCAS competitions there..OR to just re-base everything HERE at this website, which DOES have a very healthy following and LOTS of engagement. So, followers at the facebook account were asked to REFIX the recent manipulation of Facebook to MISS our posts, and to set their personal accounts to SEE out posts by picking the button SEE FIRST and click like to this competition post. At the moment just over 150 followers, have engaged for our supposing supposed 33,000 followers.... there is now just 24 hours for this total to improve, before I CLOSE the PCAS facebook page, and instead, focus our energies, competitions and post HERE at this website.We will know the outcome in just over 24 hours. Either way, THIS website, will remain daily and production!


ABOVE: An example of some of the lowers totals gained by THIS website, over the past few days. We did used to get these totals on our Facebook Fan Page too...BEFORE Facebook started their games . . 
IT IS very sad, that after being a leading site at facebook for over eight years now, that we have to opt out and close the fan page. We have had some great time, competitions, had some excellent inaction with true fans over these years. But, Facebook isn't happy unless you are somehow paying or making production towards their advertising productive . . . it didn't start that way, and their recent move to 'de clutter' everyone's accounts, is really their opportunity to push more of their ads and get groups to pay, to be seen. Asking people to CHOOSE which accounts they want to see, over any others, by pressing the SEE ALL POSTS of our page, is a task, most followers, don't understand or want to do.  I have watched them manipulate pages and posts over the last few months, with a constant push by them, to get is to play to be so called 'boosted'. Here was the recent: ' Play just TEN POUNDS and reach 200 followers now!' . ..  why would we want to do that, when we were are all ready reaching 500, WITHOUT paying them to boost us?? It's a con. It's time to leave. Our WEBSITE hits all the followers world-wide, and get very good responses.  Our posts are gathered and shown by google images and posts . .for free! It's time to close the Facebook mess, once and for all. We'll find out shortly . . 



Tuesday 16 August 2016

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : KELLY SHARES A NEW FIGURE


A NEW MICHAEL RIPPER sculpt is in the works from KELLY GODEL. Premièring here at the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society and and at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE too! Kelly tells us that, 'The previous Michael Ripper figure was inspired by Ripper's character in Hammer films, Scars of Dracula. This is more of a "Tom Bailey" but without the beard (yet)!


Although Kelly is still working on this figure, I could see this one already had all the signs of being just as excellent as his last Michael Ripper, and I think it will being sought after by figure collectors. I Kelly him how would someone go about ordering one?. 'I don't have any selling plans other than if anyone wants one they message contact me--and there are more to come. I can be contacted at, kgodel@show(dot)ca or they can facebook message me.'


I never really saw Michael very often after he retired. Even though when he was working, he always made time for fans and was, in all this attention, an extremely humble man. He admitted he was a little confused and enormously flattered by the interest that his work with Hammer was now receiving. I once joked and said he might be surprised yet, should they erect a statue of him in honour of his work. He smiled and actually blushed! 


During our chatting on facebook today, I mentioned to Kelly that it was great to see this figure was up to his usual excellent standard. And that I was pleased to see he had chosen to make another Michael Ripper figure! Within seconds, Kelly's reply came through on the chat box...it said, 'I haven't forgotten that you said, Michael Ripper would be "over the moon" to have had a statue made of him, so I had to do two!' 

Hmm, I think Michael would have liked that..!




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Thursday 23 June 2016

#TBT : A BIT OF A CANINE WHIFF TO TODAY'S POSTS . . .


THERE'S A DEFINITE CANINE WHIFF, to this weeks ‪#‎throwbackthursday‬! A lovely example of Peter playing 'black comedy' in a scene from Tyburn films, 'Legend of the Werewolf' below, as we remember one of three flirts Cushing had with monsters, of the barking kind! Later today, we have the very 'barking' results from last weeks' 'Twilight Time Baskervilles Blu Ray Compo! 

THEN WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU SOME very early Hollywood Peter Cushing, in a clip from a film, that sounds as if it COULD be about a dog, but thankfully isn't! All that to come, in the meantime, let's sit and 'growl' about the fact that Legend of the Werewolf STILL isn't available as a commercial dvd or blu ray... it's enough to get anyone howling!!


Join US at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE AND here at the WEBSITE!

Sunday 5 June 2016

GIFS GALLERY: WE'VE HIT ANOTHER MILESTONE OVER AT FACEBOOK


THIS IS AMAZING! A HUGE thank you to everyone who visits and supports this Facebook Fan Page and who has joined us in the last SEVEN DAYS, since we announced reaching TWENTY TWO thousand followers!


THE PETER CUSHING Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page now has Over 23 THOUSAND Friends and Followers! This, I hope you realise, has only been archived with your fantastic support, your likes, shares. The total was hit BEFORE my chat with Nick Digilio on WGN RADIO in the USA, yesterday. You may have spotted the change in the total, like I did on Wednesday. I thought there was a bug or a glitch in the facebook system...so we waited, to see if it changed. But no, it racked up 22 thousand last Wednesday, and THIS Wednesday this NEW total was reached. It's still climbing!


I GUESS THIS PROVES what we have always known... it isn't really a question of Peter Cushing's assured place in cinema history, this proof of his relevance... TODAY! You prove that, and not just here.... I'll leave you with this though... A tool I use to assist with managing the website and this page, is an 'ALERT' option on my google mail. So, if any news, feature or mention of Peter Cushing is made on the net, I get a notification in my mail, to let me know. Let me just say, SIX out SEVEN days, there are ALWAYS fifty to sixty notifications...in the morning! That is filled up again with NEW notifications after lunch! AS Peter said about Helen when she passed, 'She hasn't GONE anywhere, she is HERE!' I have to agree, Peter Cushing is very much alive and kicking...and not just here either!




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