#FrankensteinFriday!
HERE IS A LITTLE something we did a long while ago...and is worth
repeating with a new banner of pics at the FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE. In ALL the Peter Cushing Hammer
Frankenstein movies, there HAD to be an actress who co starred. Back in
the day, box office mattered more than gender equality and producer
dictated that no matter if the supportive reason was the acting, star
status, eye candy or two other sexist
outstanding assets, the actress had to be IN. Whatever your reasons
maybe, I would love to know WHO is your YOUR favorite Frankenstein
actress who appeared in a Cushing Hammer Frankenstein film . . . phew!
A REMINDER OUR 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN' IS STILL LIVE AND YOU ARE WELCOME TO ENTER WITH YOU ENTRY AT THEFACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE!
ABOVE I HAVE PROVIDED images, dedicated letters from A to F and the
titles of the films. Feel free to give is your reasons and also a
grading from A to F should you wish! Have a Fab #FrankensteinFriday, and
hope you have fun 😉 - Marcus
JUST ONE MORE WEEK LEFT OF OUR PCASUK #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY MONTH!
THE LATEST PCASUK
COMPETITION has just been launched at the You may want to nip along
there and maybe try your luck at bagging one of a PAIR of PRIZES : A
copy of the SCREAM FACTORY Collectors Edition of Peter Cushing's 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN'!
As ever, our competition is OPEN to everyone, whoever, wherever you
are! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and be sure to enter and send your entry BEFORE
FRIDAY AUGUST 2ND 2019!
ABOVE: ABOVE OUR PCASUK full FEATURE REVIEW of the SCREAM FACTORY release, including GALLERY SPEC, EXTRAS and CAPTURES! CLICK HERE!
SCREAM FACTORY 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN' BLU RAY COLLECTORS EDITION: EXTRAS AND BONUS MATERIAL:
NEW 2K Scan From The Original Film Elements NEW Audio Commentary With Author/Film Historian Steve Haberman And Filmmaker/Film Historian Constantine Nasr NEW Interview With Actor Robert Morris NEW Interview With Camera Assistant/Clapper Loader Eddie Collins And 2nd Assistant Director Joe Marks
Audio Commentary By Actors Derek Fowlds, Robert Morris, And Film Historian Jonathan Rigby World Of Hammer Episode The Curse Of Frankenstein World Of Hammer Episode Hammer Stars: Peter Cushing Hammer Glamour Featurette Theatrical Trailers TV Spots Radio Spots Still Galleries – Movie Stills, Posters, And Lobby Cards ORDER YOUR OWN COPY HERE: CLICK HERE!
ABOVE: The Girl From Pomerania : The PCASUK feature and gallery on the life and career of SUSAN DENBERG : CLICK HERE!
ABOVE
AND BELOW: Frankenstein Created Woman is one of the few Peter Cushing
films, to have been included in the weekly #MONSTERMONDAY role call! . . SHOCKING! 😲😉😃
WE HAVE 'CREATED' a further treat for you tomorrow 😉 WHAT Makes this movie so great? Peter Cushing? Susan Denberg? Thorley
Walters? Robert Morris? Duncan Lamont? It's SCREAM FACTORY'S Collector's
Edition, UP FOR GRABS! Directed by Terence Fisher. It's a Hammer film
classic. Be HERE or Miss OUT 😀 -Marcus
REMEMBERING THORLEY WALTERS.... There can't be many fans of Hammer films or of #PeterCushing or #ChristopherLee, who have never seen actor #ThorleyWalters!
Once one of the Hammer films 'repertory company' of actors, who like
Michael Ripper and many others, was a face who connected with some of
the best of the studios films over a twenty year period. 'Dracula Prince
of Darkness in 1968 with Christopher Lee, Hammer's Phantom of the Opera
with Herbert Lom, was Lee's Watson in ' Terence Fisher's Sherlock
Holmes and the Deadly Necklace both in 1962. 'The Man who Haunted
Himself and Vampire Circus in 1970 and The Adventure of #SherlockHolmes'
Smarter Brother' in 1975 and The People That time Forgot in 1977.
Walters also appeared some great big screen British comedies and mass of
tv drama's including 'Tinker Tailor, Solider, Spy in 1979.
PERSONALLY, my favorite Walter's performance, was as Dr Herzt with Peter Cushing in #Hammerfilms ' #Frankenstein Created Woman' in 1967. It's one thing to play the strange guy possessed by #CounDracula
in Dracula Prince of Darkness, it's wacky it's weird and amusing
playing an extension on the classic Stoker / Renfield character, but his
playing with great emotional clout, a character who shows a quite #touching friendship to Cushing's Baron Frankenstein and displays such care and compassion to #SusanDenberg's
Christina, in very little screen time, is quite a skill . . . Everyone
here will have their favorite Thorley Walter's role, they were all gems
really, be it with the scamps from #StTrinians or Colonel Bloodstock in #JonPertwee's excellent children's programme #WorzelGummidge,
Thorley Walters was ALWAYS able to connect with audiences and left us
with a rich and very entertaining cast of performances and roles. Bless
you, Thorley 😊
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!
The PCASUK#FrankensteinFriday
comes back for a month THIS Friday, I have some interesting
photographs, on set and behind the scenes of 'The Evil of Frankenstein' I
want to share with you, some great bits and pieces on Peter playing the
Baron... plus there are TWO Hammer Frankenstein Competitions, which I
think you will enjoy too! It all starts this Friday for just a month,
don't miss it 😉 - Marcus
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!
REMEMBERED: TODAY WE REMEMBER Hungarian born actor SANDOR ELES…. Known
for a lot of work on TV he guest starred in shows such as The Saint, One
Step Beyond, The Avengers, Danger Man and a regular role in the UK Soap
'Crossroads'. Eles did a lot of good and interesting work, given the chance. He made
appearances in The Avengers, The Professionals Strange Report and
Upstairs, Downstairs. One of his most memorable film roles was as the
mysterious Paul in the Brian Clemens thriller
'And Soon the Darkness' in 1970. The screenplay was written by Brian
Clemens and Terry Nation, both of whom had contributed to The Avengers,
as well as to several ITC crime series made in Britain. The film was
directed by Robert Fuest.
ABOVE: You can read more about SANDOR ELES and his work in #Hammerfilms 'The Evil of Frankenstein' in a feature written for PCAS by Troy Howath, at the time of it's first time release on blu ray from Final Cut. It's complete with a gallery of great publicity stills rarely seen form the PCAS archive RIGHT HERE!
ELES CO STARRED with #PeterCushing in #Hammerfilms third Frankenstein film,
'The Evil Of Frankenstein' and presented a quite different style of
Baron's assistant. Sympathetic and sensitive to the Baron's plight and
dedication to his work, it was an angle that didn't arrive again until
Shane Briant's excellent portrayal of Simon in 'Frankenstein and the
Monster from Hell' from Hammer films in 1974.
ABOVE IS A PHOTOGRAPHis a still I thought Frankenstein and Hammer fans would appreciate! It's a never before shared or published studio photographer still during the making of the Peter Cushing and Sandor Eles Hammer films 'The Evil of Frankenstein' in 1963 at Bray studios. Cushing and Eles can be seen at the back of the marquee tent, with their mask disguises, but note the top of the still. It just shows how LOW in height the back lot buildings were at Bray studios. The lighting, the rigging and boom microphone is just a few feet from the actors heads!!!
ELES WAS IN MANY WAYS a
jobbing actor, but capable of so much more, just watching his work as
Paul Ross in the UK low budget, but extremely popular almost daily soap
opera, 'Crossroads' from 1982 until 1985, he gave more than any of the
scripts required. A guest role as himself in the film 'Surviving
Picasso' 1996, is a raw and sad exit, for an highly skilled actor, who
when given the chance on screen or stage, was anyone but himself....
SANDOR ELES, sadly died on September 4th 2002, in Kilburn, London. He was just 66 years old . .
A HEADS UP and what many of you have been waiting for! The PCASUK and SECOND SIGHT FILMS COMPETITION kicks off TOMORROW -Sunday 16th June 2019 HERE and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE. There are FOUR COPIES of the SECOND SIGHT FILMS REMASTERED BLU RAY of Amicus films, 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt up for grabs and MUST be won! Look out for our PCASUK COMPETITION post tomorrow, and make sure to send us YOUR ENTRY! NEXT WEEK we'll be launching ANOTHER PCASUK Competition where FOUR COPIES of Amicus films, ASYLUM BLU RAY will be up for grabs too! Here's your chance to bag some great prizes TOMORROW! Are YOU up for it??
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
