OUR FINAL and very popular #SecondSightFilms
/ PCASUK Competition closed last night at midnight GMT. All entries are
now in and the FOUR LUCKY WINNERS names will be announced HERE and at
the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE TODAY! We'll be publishing a full review of both
Second Sight Amicus Films Limited Edition Blu Ray releases this THURSDAY
at the website, a long with screen captures and GIFS. The response to
both these competitions has been extremely positive. You can pre-order
both 'The House That Dripped Blood' and
'Asylum' from #SecondSightFilms now, while stocks last HERE!. This is a limited
edition release and the addition extras on 'House' make these two
Cushing and Lee #Amicusfilms, a very worthy addition to any collection.
You'll be pleased to hear the quality of both films make these
particular releases, the new benchmark if you are wanting to purchase
these TWO titles 😀 Meanwhile, sit tight . . . YOU could be a #WINNER 😛 - Marcus
ABOVE: MEANWHILE, you might wanna be around on Friday, for this weeks PCASUK #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY!
THE 1972 AMICUS FILM, 'Asylum' which is featured in our Second Sight Films / PCAS competition this week, was a film that contains quite a sad and poignant role for Peter Cushing, both his character and Cushing in his own life, were dealing with the grief of losing a loved one. After the release of Asylum in the UK, the connection of the role and Cushing own loss, prompted quite a few interviews and features in magazines and newspapers. A few weeks ago, we posted the quite well known photo of Peter sitting at a dresser in his home in Whitstable, with framed photographs of Helen at his side. On posting this pic, I received quite a few messages from many of you out there who were very moved to see Peter looking so remorseful. So, I looked into our files and to find this 'other' photograph from this photo session and post the two here today 😀 The loss of Helen was something from which Peter Cushing never truly recovered, but being the gentleman and brave soul he was, he always managed to push on, to another day ... I hope you like the insert photo - Marcus 😉
ABOVE: YOU CAN bag your chance to win a copy of the LIMITED EDITION BLU RAY SECOND SIGHT FILMS release of 'ASYLUM' in our PCASUK COMPETITION right now at our FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE! The competition is open until SATURDAY 29th of June 2019, so there's still time to take the opportunity now!
HERE WE GO EVERYONE! Many thanks to Second Sight Films for their sponsoring of this and our last AMICUS CUSHING COMPETITION!... Asylum is one
of my all time favorite Amicus / Peter Cushing films, and I think this
release is going to go quite crackers and sell out very quickly on its
release day 29th July2019. You CAN PREORDER NOW RIGHT HERE! THIS COMPETITION is now LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE. IF you feel like giving yourself a go!? The last PCAS competition to win FOUR COPIES of SECOND SIGHT FILMS LIMITED EDITION OF ' 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' was very popular and already it looks like THIS comp will make and hit some new numbers for our entries again!
THE SECOND SIGHT FILMS release not only presents us with a very neat and much improved print of the film, which stars some of the best of not only past Amicus casts but a neat crew in 'post production' and behind the camera too. The film has a pretty tight story and each of the four tales of terror skip along, just pausing for breath under Peter Tanner's editing. Tanner has a very good understanding of the pace needed for Brit Fantasy and strange stories, having edited some of the best of the TV series 'The Avengers' in nine episodes during 65 and 66. Tanner worked a few Amicus films and was in demand until 1998, sadly passing at the grand age of 88 in 2002.
CAMERA OPERATOR NEIL BINNEY, who made a very firm mark of quality on several of Amicus films rival, Hammer films over the years, makes everything appear in the set design of the titled 'Asylum' building, look every inch clinical, but not-quite-in-the-world-of-the-real! Roy Ashton, provides his skilled eye and hand on the make up of everything from quite nasty scars to 'what is trying to break out of that manikin?' plus Douglas Gamley - The City Of The Dead (61) , The Road to Hong Kong (62), A Shot In The Dark (63) The Land Thar Time Forgot (74)- and moves the scrapes, thuds and off time clanks of Elisabeth Lutyens. Gamley thankfully was yet to discover the art of naff 'The Beats Must Die' score and sets a terrific and powerful kick off bringing in his arrangement of Mussorgsky's 'Night On Bald Mountain' and pieces of his own making, to make a film that not only looks frightening but also rips a score, that gets the toes a curling! So much to watch and hear. Along with this we have a VERY nice assortment of goodies in the EXTRA FEATURES department . .
ABOVE: JUST LIKE AMICUS, the art and timing of the 'good build-up' in how we set the scene, ready for the lauch of this the SECOND AMICUS PCAS and SECOND SIGHT FILMS competition, was about to go live on facebook, shortly . .
OUR PART FIVE of the FILMS OF PETER CUSHING which includes ASYLUM complete with rare stills gallery : HERE!
THE EXTRA VALUE OF EXTRAS!
Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney
Two’s a Company: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky
Inside The Fear Factory: Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg
Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Graham Humphreys and original artwork Limited Edition Contents
Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork by Graham Humphreys 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger Reversible poster featuring new and original artwork
DID YOU MISS our FIRST AMICUS BLU RAY competition? IF SO, grab your opportunity to catch this one, at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE of the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society : RIGHT HERE!
OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE, we have just reveled and announced our FOUR PCAS 'HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' BLU RAY COMPETITION WINNERS! Each of them have bagged a copy of
the Second Sight Films LIMITED EDITION BLU RAY release of Amicus films,
'The House That Dripped Blood', starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee,
Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt 🙂 Well DONE! 🙂
Many thanks to the HUGE number of you who entered this very popular
competition, and a BIG thank you to Second Sight films for sponsoring
this PCAS competition. Don't despair, if you are not a WINNER, we have
another PCAS /Second Sight EXCLUSIVE COMPETITION launching HERE and at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page in just
TWO HOURS time 🙂
You can win yourself, a copy from FOUR prizes of Amicus films ASYLUM,
on blu ray, also from Second Sight Films, in what promises to be another
great competition too.
MEANWHILE, BOTH titles are released on JULY 29th 2019 and you can PRE ORDER BOTH of these terrific Second Sight releases, by, CLICKING HERE and HERE!
HERE WE GO! This is the FIRST of TWO AMICUS COMPETITIONS PCAS and SECOND SIGHT FILMS will be launching over the next TWO WEEKS here at the PCASUK website and the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! 😃 Here is your chance to bag yourself a copy of the 1971 AMICUS FILMS classic horror, THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt! This LIMITED EDITION is also a FIRST TIME release on BLU RAY for the UK, with a host of extras, a 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger and FOUR spine chilling stories that makes it one of the best of the Amicus portmanteau series of films. To WIN YOUR COPY, all you have to do is correctly answer the COMPETITION QUESTION and either send it to us via our email petercushingpcas@gmail.com OR you can ENTER at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! We must give our grateful thanks to SECOND SIGHT FILMS for sponsoring our TWO AMICUS COMPETITIONS and we look forward to announcing the WINNERS NEXT SATURDAY! Remember there will be another competition to win copies of Second Sight Films BLU RAY of ASYLUM the following day, Sunday 23rd of June! These competitions are open to everyone, who ever, where ever YOU are 😃! GOOD LUCK 😃😉😊 - Marcus
YOU CAN PRE ORDER YOUR COPIES of BOTH films RIGHT HERE!
BRACE YOURSELVES for the release of TWO CLASSIC AMICUS films released on BLU RAY for the first time in the UK and available forORDER NOW!and part of our EXCLUSIVE Peter Cushing Appreciation Society COMPETITION!LOOK OUT FOR DETAILS at our PCAS Facebook Fan Page, Twitter, Instagram and Twitter!
‘GLEEFULLY POISEDon the border between silly and scary…gripping till the last’ : FILM FOUR
‘DELICIOUSLY far-fetched…fun to watch…demented camera angles…fast pacing…far more unsettling than you might imagine.’ BBC ONLINE
DON'T MISS OUT ON THESE PRIZES! Copies to be won of Second Light Limited Edition Blu Ray of Amicus Films Classic Cushing Chiller ASYLUM! First time on blu ray in the UK! NEW EXTRAS Limited Edition contents too, rigid slip case with art work cover by our very own Graham Humphreys, A 40 page booklet on the film and reversible poster featuring the new and original artwork PLUS Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney
‘Two’s a Company’: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland, ‘Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch, Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky, ‘Inside The Fear Factory’ Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg PLUS Theatrical Trailer
REGION FREE this blu ray is released on JUNE 29th 2019. You can PRE ORDER HERE! LOOK OUT for details on this PCASUK special COMP. MISS it MISS OUT!
THE PLOT THAT LIVES WITHIN FOUR WALLS OF MADNESS! FROM PSYCHO writer Robert Bloch and directed by Roy Ward Baker (A Night to Remember), iconic 1972 Amicus horror anthology Asylum is set for the Limited Edition Blu-ray treatment from Second Sight AND is also available as our PRIZES in EXCLUSIVE PCAS COMPETITION, coming here VERY soon!
WHEN DOCTOR MARTIN (Robert Powell – The Italian Job, The Thirty Nine Steps) arrives for a job interview at a secluded asylum for the incurably insane, he must prove himself by listening to the macabre tales of four inmates to determine which is the former head of the asylum who experienced a breakdown. We join him on the investigation with these hair-raising horrors…Frozen Fear stars Barbara Parkins (Valley of the Dolls, Peyton Place) as Bonnie, who recounts her plot to murder her lover’s wife, whose talent for voodoo results in horrific repercussions after her dead body is dismembered. Legend of horror Peter Cushing (The Horror of Dracula, Star Wars) features as a client of The Weird Tailor, who requests a suit to be made of a mysterious scintillating fabric in order to reanimate his dead son. Charlotte Rampling (Never Let Me Go, Broadchurch) and Britt Ekland (The Man with the Golden Gun, Wicker Man) star in Lucy Comes to Stay as the ebullient Barbara, a frequent Asylum patient, and her mischievous friend Lucy whose visit upsets the fragile equilibrium in her mind. It all comes to a head in Mannikins of Horror as Dr Byron (Herbert Lom – The Phantom of the Opera,Spartacus) transfers his soul into an automaton and is determined to kill Dr Rutherford (Patrick Magee – A Clockwork Orange, Chariots of Fire)…but who is really in danger? The stories build towards a “tightly constructed and well-conceived climax” (Oh The Horror) that will keep you guessing until the very end. Experience the chilling and thrilling compendium of terror Asylum in this Limited Edition Blu-ray box set.
THIS HUGELY anticipated release starring a stellar cast will be presented in stunning rigid slipcase packaging featuring new artwork by Graham Humphreys, and a 40-page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger, not to mention a whole host of special features including director commentaries and featurettes, THIS LIMITED EDITION is available from 29th July 2019 and is available for PRE-ORDER HERE NOW!.
'ONE OF THE BEST AMICUS ANTHOLOGY FILMS, this is an enjoyable affair full of affectionate horror homage! : EMPIRE MAGAZINE ‘ROBERT BLOCH'S superior scripting abilities to fashion a chilling atmosphere of terror that has dated extremely well.’ FILM 4 'A MARVELOUS MOOD PIECE of chilling intensity…vigorous Grand Guignol fun!' TIME OUT
SEMINAL AMICUS horror 'The House that Dripped Blood', from Peter Duffell in his directorial debut and written by renowned screenwriter Robert Bloch (Psycho), is set for one of Second Sight’s renowned must-have Limited Edition Blu-ray releases this Summer. This star-studded anthology is presented in a stunning box set featuring original artwork from Graham Humphreys alongside a whole host of fantastic new special features including new essays from horror aficionados and a 40-page booklet and is available from 29th July 2019.
THE PLOT!
Scotland Yard’s Inspector Holloway (John Bennett – Watership Down, The Fifth Element) investigates a mysterious mansion with a ghoulish history and a chilling fate for its occupants in these four tales of terror… Method for Murder stars Denholm Elliott (Indiana Jones, A Room with a View) as a hack horror writer haunted by visions of the murderous, psychopathic central character of his latest novel. Peter Cushing (The Horror of Dracula, Star Wars) and Joss Ackland (The Hunt for Red October, Lethal Weapon 2) feature in Waxworks as a pair of friends fixated with a macabre museum that appears to contain a model of a woman they both knew. Horror icon Christopher Lee (The Wicker Man, Lord of the Rings) appears as a severe widower who appears to mistreat his young daughter in Sweets to the Sweet. But when a well-meaning teacher intervenes, will she realise her mistake in time? Jon Pertwee (Doctor Who, Carry on Cleo) plays a temperamental horror film actor in The Cloak. When he buys a cloak for his vampire costume from a mysterious local vendor, his co-star (Ingrid Pitt – The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula) soon notices its strange powers.
TERROR AWAITS you in every room of The House That Dripped Blood… Enter if you dare.
BOTH COMPETITIONS WILL BE launched soon on ALL PCASUK social media platforms. Just ONE question, ONE correct ANSWER and you could be a WINNER! You can also place YOUR PRE ORDER for BOTH films release on JULY 29TH
NEWS: Announced today, is the news of the arrival of TWO Amicus Peter
Cushing films being released as limited editions next month on blu ray SECOND SIGHT FILMS
in the UK for the FIRST TIME on the 29th of JULY 2019! Both THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and ASYLUM contain very neat menu of bonus
extras, some new additions, some passed over from previous releases. but BOTH have exceptional cases artwork by my good mate, Graham Humphreys,
plus both have supplement 40 page booklets on the movies too! Here is
the run down on what each release is offering as a pretty neat package .
. we'll be sharing a review on this release, the print and the contents
very soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Meanwhile, you can place YOUR PRE ORDER HERE!
ASYLUM Limited Edition Contents • Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork
by Graham Humphreys • 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce,
Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger Special Features • Audio Commentary with
Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney • ‘Two’s a
Company’: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer
Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling,
James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production
Manager Teresa Bolland • Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert
Bloch • Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky • Inside The Fear
Factory Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and
Producer Max J. Rosenberg • Theatrical Trailer
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
Limited Edition Contents
• Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• 40 page soft cover book with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger
Special Features
• Audio Commentary with Director Peter Duffell and Author Jonathan Rigby
• Audio Commentary with Film Historian and Author Troy Howarth
• Interview with Second Assistant Director Mike Higgins
• A Rated Horror Film - Vintage featurette featuring interviews with Director Peter Duffell and Actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt and Chloe Franks
• Theatrical Trailers
• Amicus Radio Spots
• Stills Gallery
NEWS:
More good news Amicus's THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and ASYLUM both
starring #PeterCushing and a whole HOST of British Horror amicus stars are AT LAST coming to blu-ray in the UK from Second Sight
Films. MORE NEWS when we get it! At the moment, no NEWS on EXTRAS or a RELEASE DATE. STAY TUNE!
OUR PCAS GALLERY AND FEATURE ON AMICUS FILMSASYLUM along with Cushing's performance and working with old friend actor BARRY MORSE and others CAN BE RIGHT HERE!
#CUSHINGGIFWEDNESDAY! HERE IS is week's selection of animated sequences from some of the BEST films of PETER CUSHING and as usual, a few quizy questions, to test you on your knowledge of CUSHING'S work and life. IF you think you have the answer to ANY zip us a quick email to the PCAS account and if you get them all on the BUTTON, we'll celebrate your very neat achievement by creating and posting your very own BANNER the week after here at our next #CUSHINGGIFWEDNESDAY! Good luck! HERE is our email: petercushingpcas@gmail.com
HERE IS A ROLE which CHRISTOPHER LEE said he enjoyed very much. It is a shame that it didn't do that well at the box office. WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THIS FILM? THE FILM ENCOUNTERED A PROBLEM DURING PRODUCTION, WHAT WAS THAT PROBLEM? THE CAT IN THE FILM WAS ACTUALLY, a) CHRISTOPHER LEE'S b) STEPHEN WEEKS THE DIRECTOR'S c) PETER CUSHING'S?
HAMMER FILMS, TWINS OF EVIL stars PETER CUSHING as Gustav Weil and DAMIEN THOMAS as Count KARNSTEIN. THOMAS was born in a) WALES? b) LONDON c) EGYPT d) FRANCE. The film is part of the KARNSTEIN TRILOGY. IS IT THE SECOND OR THIRD ENTRY IN THE TALE? There were quite a few RATS on the floor of the set on THIS CRYPT. HOW DID THEY GET THE RATS TO STAY IN SHOT? a) WITH STRINGS? b) THE RATS WERE ANIMATED AND NOT REAL? c) WITH PEANUT BUTTER? d) WITH CHEESE?
JAMES VILLIERS and CHARLOTTE TRAMPLING in AMICUS FILMS ASYLUM in 1972. VILLIERS was quite a prolific actor, who nearly always played sardonic and upper class gentlemen. He worked for both AMICUS and HAMMER FILMS. HOW MANY FILMS DID HE APPEAR IN FOR HAMMER FILMS? VILLIERS appeared to be of aristocratic background, BECAUSE HE WAS A DESCENDANT OF THE EARLS OF CLARENDON. TRUE or FALSE? Descendant of the Earls of Clarendon.
MORE ON AMICUS, ASYLUM, CUSHING AND VILLIERS in our PCAS FEATURE. JUST CLICK HERE!
CHRISTOPHER LEE as COUNT DRACULA being assisted by Hammer films regular actor, THORLEY WALTERS as Ludwig in DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966). WALTERS MADE HOW MANY FILMS IN WHICH PETER CUSHING APPEARED TOO? IN HOW MANY SHERLOCK HOLMES FILMS DID WALTERS APPEAR?
LAST WEEKS ANSWERS: The BEST and MOST CONCISE answers we received to all FIVE of the questions came from MARCIA LOISEL. . . and HERE they are!
QUESTION ONE:THE INTERIORS in this GIF from THE MUMMY was filmed WHERE? WHICH TWO ACTORS who appeared in this film, originally wanted to be an OPERA SINGERS?
ANSWER ONE: The Mummy's interiors were shot at Bray Studios, Down Place. One of
the actors who had wanted to be an opera singer was Christopher Lee. The OTHER name we were looking for WAS Yvonne Furneaux!
QUESTION TWO: NAME THE TITLE OF THIS FILM,name
the ACTRESS in this shot AND which very famous ACTOR did THE actor
almost REPLACE in a BLOCK BUSTER SCI FI film based on a TV series AND
WHICH ACTOR was playing SHERLOCK HOLMES in the TV series he once
appeared in?
ANSWER TWO: The title of the film in the GIF was 'Twins of Evil'. The actress playing Countess Mircalla is Katya Wyeth. Unknown to many, DAMIEN THOMAS was primed to take the role of SPOOK from Leonard Nimoy in the first STAR TREK movie. Jeremy Brett as
Sherlock Holmes in the DEVIL FOOT episode that THOMAS appeared in for Granada television. .
QUESTION THREE: The GIF was of PETER CUSHING
in the BBC TV series SHERLOCK HOLMES and production of THE BLUE
CARBUNCLE. Cushing used a magnifying glass in quite a few FILMS. HOW
MANY can you name? GIVE US the TITLES!
ANSWER THREE: Marcia certainly provided the BEST answer we received to this question. Her answer was . . . Top Secret, Hound of the Baskervilles, Abominable Snowman of the
Himalayas, Curse of Frankenstein, Frankenstein and the Monster From
Hell, The Creeping Flesh, The Mummy, The Skull, Horror Express, Blood
Beast Terror. He didn't use but handed a magnifying glass to Watson in
Masks of Death. . . and we will go with that!
QUESTION FOUR: CAN YOU NAME the COUNTRY where this film was released in 1980? This film
also had a member of the cast who was more famous as a theatrical
performer and street artist! NAME that cast member! Can you name one of
the alternative TITLES that this film was also know as? titles
ANSWER FOUR: featured a gif from the Cushing film,FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.
showing Ian Ogilvy in The Door. In 1980 the film
was released in the USA as a re-release. The actor who was famous as a
theatrical performer and street artist was Marcel Steiner.
The alternative titles: Creatures From Beyond the Grave, Tales From
Beyond
the Grave, Tales From the Beyond, The Undead, The Creatures.
QUESTION FIVE: This question has been made VOID as we were given THE WRONG INFO!!!!!
