WHAT WAS IT LIKE to be Christopher Lee? Well, if you watch this short,
raw, unedited footage from a candid chat with Lee back in 2001, you get
an idea! Being in the spotlight certainly exposes you to everyone and it
seems, everyone wanted something! The press, weird attention, fans,
critics and . . . babies? Poor Christopher got it all. Lots to hear and
see here. Certainly worth your attention, if you ever wondered why Sir
Christopher could be a little blunt or guarded . . now you KNOW why . .
THE ABOVE IS FOR TERI SPEIRS in Grand Junction, CO US, here is a request she made
yesterday at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE on Christopher Lee's Birthday, but we just didn't have time to
fit in! Teri wanted anything that was from the 'staking scene' in
Hammer films, Dracula Has Risen from The Grave' ... but if possible an
'on-set' shot, but not a dvd frame or press photograph 😩😫😂Ok, well I think this fits the bill! It's from a contact sheet, so never published, a little grainy, but look at THAT face! 😮 Hope this does the job, Teri - Marcusl
#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHINGSUNDAY!INDEED! One of a handful of Cushing frighteners, that passed my dear ol Mum's 'GetTheCushion' test! . . she always hid her eyes behind a cushion on sofa, if the tenstion became, TOO MUCH! Yeees, that's where this themed concept comes from ;)
'In 1795, in England, the young woman Catherine moves to the house of her
fiancé Charles Fengriffen in the country to get married with him. When
she arrives, she feels interest in the portraits of the Fengriffen
family, particularly in the one of Charle's grandfather Henry
Fengriffen, which seems to have a sort of evil entity possessing it.
While admiring Henry's face, a severed hand attacks Catherine through
the picture on the wall. Later, she gets married with Charles, beginning
her journey of mystery, eerie apparitions, secrets and deaths, and
having her days filled with fear and the nights with horrors in a cursed
family.'
'AND NOW, THE SCREAMING STARTS' was AMICUS FILMS only production that ventured into the field of 'GOTHIC GHOST STORY'. The Amicus trademark, were films that were set and based in a contemporary setting. Even though a tale like, 'THE DOOR' in 'FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE' (1974) has a toe in the Ghostly World of time past, it confines the setting of the story, to a modern home, with ONE ROOM that appears to be trapped in the 1700's. Maybe it was a question of cost? Films sets for period films, have lots of ZERO'S on the budget sheet, something that would have certainly given producer Milton Subotsky nightmares! With that in mind, don't look too closely at the interior sets of this film, instead admire Cushing calm performance..IGNORE the hairpiece, we've been over it. Beacham is very good, as is Herbert Lom, Magee, and Geoffrey Whitehead. Special mention to a young Ian Ogilvy and director Roy Ward Baker, who both along with Cushing, keep the whole thing, entertaining and moving along nicely....
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#GETHECUSHIONITSCUSHING! This week's clip is one of my personal Amicus favorite scenes... it stars Ian Ogily and Peter Cushing, 'And Now, The Screaming Starts' ...it's THAT scene in the cemetery! The rain, the thunder..the skeleton! It's a weird film, a bit of sprawling script, in being Amicus films only ghost story, it could have been helped a little with a more subtle title. 'An Now, the...' etc was Max Rosenberg's idea. He, The King of Subtly'..said nobody....ever. The Bride of Fengriffen' the title of the book that the script was based on, would have been much better, I feel....what say you?
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