WIN COPIES OF TORTURE GARDEN REMASTERED BLU RAY COMPETITION!

OVER AT OUR PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE we have just launched our LAST competition of the festive season and this year. Feel free to CLICK on that BLUE LINK and send us your entry. Here are all the details of the prize and the post that accompanied the competition below.

ANOTHER PCAS FESTIVE COMPETITION! To help make your 2017 go OUT in style and welcome IN a screamingly good 2018, here's your chance to bag a copy of Peter Cushing's AMICUS film TORTURE GARDEN remastered and packed with extras from Indicator Entertainment, who have generously sponsored our festive frightening competitions this year. Follow the competition's instructions CAREFULLY. THIS COMPETITION is OPEN TO EVERYONE, wherever you are! Thank you ALL for a special 2017. For your continued interest and support. Good Luck and a HAPPY NEW YEAR - Marcus

SPECS:
INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• Ramsey Campbell on Robert Bloch (2017
• Interview with Fiona Subotsky (2017
• Interview with actor Barbara Ewing (2017
• Hannah Gordon on husband DoP Norman Warwick (2017,
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne,
an overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on the film
• UK premiere on Blu-ray
• Limited Edition of 3,000 copies

ORDER YOUR COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION FROM INDICATOR HERE!

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#MONSTERMONDAY: JACK PALANCE IS RONALD WYATT

#MONSTERMONDAY: COLLECTORS can be very strange folk! I have come across a quite few in my time, while managing PCAS. Not all weird, but ...some 🙂 The passion for collecting and completing is a strong force. When is it time to say, 'The collection is now, complete'? Where do you draw the line?

WE COVERED PETER CUSHING CHARACTER IN THIS 

STORY A FEW MONTHS AGO

DIRECTOR FREDDIE FRANCIS ON JACK PALANCE:
“I loved working with Jack Palance, and I’m happy to say we were able to work together on two movies, although the second was less than memorable. He is a wonderfully educated man about many diverse subjects including, of course his passion, fine art. I always got the impression that acting was only a means to an end by allowing him to buy art. During filming it also became obvious that Jack would have loved to have been an Englishman as he seemed to like everything that was English. At the time I had a Bentley (business was good), and Jack used to love to ride in it either with me or my driver (business was very good). He would sit in the front seat, next to the driver, wearing a bowler hat. This was the most incongruous sight that you could possibly imagine. Picture if you can a Hollywood tough guy wearing an English bowler and sitting in a Bentley. I suspect this sight raised a few eyebrows in Knightsbridge when he drove up to the Royal Garden Hotel where he was staying. I never did find out whether Jack bought the bowler for the Bentley or whether he had possessed one before he was given free rein with the car. He would also wear it when we went to a pub called Harrows near Sheperton Studios because he thought that’s what Englishmen did. I have to tell you he stood out like a sore thumb.”

IN CUSHING'S 'The Man Who Collected Poe' story in Amicus films, 'Torture Garden (1967) the line is well and truly crossed, well before we join the story. Just WHAT is in that room? Jack Palance, as Ronald Wyatt needs to know. In a two-hander story, with Cushing and Palance, Amicus accidentally discovers a great feat of casting. Both Cushing and Palance appear to be really enjoying their roles, and playing off each other, in what is fabulous watch. And then, being a short story...it's over. It would have been great to have seen them again, in another film, maybe? Palance as Wyatt, passionate, driven, blinded, maybe? A Monster? You decide. . . 

TRIVIA: The Man Who Collected Poe, was originally to have had Cushing AND Christopher Lee in the roles of Lancelot Canning and Ronald Wyatt. Lee was edged out by Colombia, who were financing the film for Amicus...and they wanted Palance as Wyatt instead...!

IN 'THE MAN WHO COLLECTED POE',” Palance manages to hold his own with horror icon Peter Cushing as the two actors discuss Poe’s work with great enthusiasm. Palance, much like Cushing, does not treat the genre with disdain and seems to relish his roll while chewing-up and spitting-out the scenery. His character is delightfully devilish and uncommonly urbane while he smokes his pipe and devotes his attention to Gothic literature. In the real world, Palance was a Stanford University graduate with a degree in Journalism and Theatre as well as a passionate art collector who enjoyed painting and writing poetry. You get a genuine sense of the real man that Palance was underneath his tough-guy Hollywood image in Torture Garden, which allowed the actor to flaunt his genuine appreciation for the written word as well as his sincere enthusiasm for collecting. Palance was also a reported Anglophile and must have relished being able to make movies in the United Kingdom with a British cast and crew.

 OUR FEATURE ON THIS FILM CAN BE FOUND WITH GALLERY :HERE!

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#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: CUSHING'S MODEL THEATRES AND HISTORICAL SCENES

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: WE ARE turning back the clock to the 1950's and 60's, when it seemed that Peter Cushing was not only appearing on either one or both TV stations in the UK, every other night, but also a time, when not working, he was very busy at home. Cushing had been a prolific model maker, in the sense that, he not only made the figures, historical and theatrical, he also made the theater's, the sets, the buildings, all in miniature. The materials were wood, paint, plaster, clay and paper-mach. Sadly, when his wife Helen, died in 1971, Cushing decided that the time of creative pastimes and hobbies, had little interest to him. Much of his huge collection of model theaters, soldiers, paintings and a vast array of collectable books, stamps, postcards and collectables, were the past. There they sat, in his loft studio at what had been his home and Helen's since the late 1950's. 

After Cushing's passing in 1994, a levy of Death Tax was to be paid and much of what made his private collection and creations from his hobbies, were put up for auction. Thousands of lots, containing furniture, clothes and the entire Cushing collection, were put under the hammer...Everything must go. And it did.

Above the MODEL THEATRES depicting scenes from productions and history are as follows. 

A: An Egyptian Palace scene set suitable for Cleopatra or The Mummy. The scene is fully lit, signed by Peter Cushing 1969.  A magnificent vignette of Antony & Cleopatra reclining on a tiger skin draped couch with their entourage.

B: The Wheel and Poop Deck of a 18th /19th Century British [man of war] ship, fully lit. Figures in British naval dress of the 18th /19th Century individually modeled and painted by Peter Cushing.

C:  Set for Journey`s End by R.C. Sherriff, a British dugout, March 1918 before St Quentin, the trench section is fully lit, signed by Peter Cushing in 1967.Cast of actors in WWI British uniform individually modeled and painted 54mm foot figures comprising: 7 officers and men. This scene would have been of special interest to Peter. Journey's End was the production he had wanted to appear in, since he had been a young actor... but never did. 

The rows of INDIVIDUAL FIGURES, created and painted by Peter Cushing are TOP:  Medieval period royalty - foot figures of: Mathilda of Flanders, King John, William 1, Henry II & Richard 1. MIDDLE: A collection of historical figures comprising: Ancient to Medieval period foot figures of 2 x Vikings, Hengist, Canute, & Alfred the Great. BOTTOM: Signing the Magna Carta - foot figures of: King John, Clergy, Knights & Barons. 

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: FRONT OF HOUSE COLLECTABLES

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: On the slab today... a very cool specimen, from our archives. A 1957 UK Front of House still one of seven in a set. Back in the 1970's you could pick up the whole set for under 50 GB pounds. Now? It will set you back maybe 4 to 500 pounds, depending on condition. This still has no cracking, creases or pin marks, so could be worth maybe £100 to £150... it's all down to how much someone is happy to pay, I guess. Just goes to show, Cushing vintage material is still desirable and sort after.... this one however, won't be going anywhere...

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KELSEA LYRI WHEATON LOOKS INTO THE CHRISMA OF PETER CUSHING

The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK, was founded back in 1956, and is the original Fan Club. It's now on the net at it's own facebook fan page, has tumblr, twitter, instagram accounts and it's home website the petercushingappreciationsociety.com, now with over 21,000 followers world wide. Now you can access vintage hi res publicity photographs, promotional material, features, interviews both in text and on video with the actors, directors and friends who knew the man, the artist and friend, Peter Cushing.

It's a great way keep up to date with on the news of remastered blu rays, dvds and streaming of films from Cushing's extensive career on both the big screen, tv and radio. Hear and see vintage Cushing interviews from our extensive library, many being seen and heard for the first time. Access our huge library of reviews and rare galleries of stills, lobby cards, many collectors items available as transparencies and contact sheets from Cushing's Hammer Horrors, his famous portrayals of Baron Frankenstein, The Vampire Hunter : Van Helsing, Christopher Lee's Count Dracula nemesis , the famous Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Who on the big screen...and lets not forget forget his 22 films with the Prince of Terror, Christopher Lee. They both had a talent to terrify, and left audiences screaming for more over three decades.

There's also our BIG competitions and BIG prizes, blu ray box sets and prizes that money can't buy from the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Memorabilia Collection. Autographed rare stills and one off original Cushing movie props. It's all here, it's all accessible and free at the click of your mouse, the world of Peter Cushing and ONLY at the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society UK. We are now available world wide and to everyone, anywhere, old fans and new...updated daily, EVERY day. So, come celebrate the life and career of Peter Cushing OBE...join us, keeping the memory alive....

MONSTERS FROM HELL AT FACEBOOK

If you are a fan of fantasy films and Hammer in particular, there are some great pages and groups to be found on facebook, but it's always a treat to find a page that goes that extra mile, sharing and posting special collectors items and rare pics. Stephen Jones' 'Monsters From Hell' facebook page, is such a page. Always something new and of interest.

He works hard at making his daily posts worth seeking out. Because of facebooks habit of squeezing the reach of certain groups posts, Stephen's efforts aren't getting the recognition and reaching the people who should be seeing them. So, here's the the link to his page, do yourself a favour, go take a look and like his page. You'll be glad you did!

Join MONSTERS FROM HELL by CLICKING THIS LINK: HERE