#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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