Showing posts with label creature from the black lagoon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creature from the black lagoon. Show all posts

Tuesday, 28 August 2018

A HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JUDY MATHESON AND THE GRAND CINEFICCION ISSUE EIGHT IS OUT!


HERE IS A HEADS UP for all Spanish speaking followers and fans of the pretty amazing CINEFICION magazine! The latest issue is OUT NOW and available for order. As always editor Dario Lavia has put together another well PACKED issue along with the VERY nice regular middle pull out full colour feature... this issue it covers the Universal CREATURE films. There are so many great things about this issue! Just a few of the items covered are Sara Karloff, Julie Adams, Claudio Huck reviews the 'Stepford' series of films, Alfredo Paniagua Garcia's 'Kaidan Cine De Clasico Japones' four page feature is an eye-opener and look out for Carlos Diaz Maroto review of, the 2017 film, 'The Shape of the Water' plus the whole thing kicks off with a Doctor Who feature, from yours truly and the PCASUK website 😉 I always look forward to that sealed package, sent by Dario when receiving my latest issues. This week the large envelope containing the latest, also came with a neat little sketch of PC, hovering over my postal address! A NICE touch, Dario 😉 Order your copy now while stocks last : CINEFICCION ISSUE 8 : HERE!


HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUDY! 🙂 Today marks a special day for actress, Judy Matheson! Judy appeared in the Peter Cushing 1971 film, 'Twins of Evil'... playing one of the village unfortunates, who were burnt at the stake! 


JUDY HAS HAD QUITE a full career over the years appearing in Crucible of Terror and also Hammer films, Lust for a Vampire too. Her television career has spend across tv favorites such as ITV's Coronation Street, the BBC sci series Blake's 7, Z Cars ( lead female role, twice), The Professionals, The Adventurer, The Sweeney, Harriet's Back in Town, Citizen Smith, Dead of Night,and for several months she starred in Crossroads, playing Sandy's girlfriend and Hugh Mortimer's secretary, Vicky Lambert! She played the poet Shelley's lover, Jane Williams, opposite Robert Powell in the BBC's film of the life of Shelley directed by Alan Bridges.



HER THEATRICAL WORK includes starring opposite Richard O'Sullivan in a British tour of the comedy Boeing-Boeing with Yootha Joyce & Sally Thomsett, Ray Cooney's Chase Me Comrade, Stage Struck by Simon Gray, Hugh & Margaret Williams’ The Flip Side, Funny Peculiar by Mike Scott and Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce. Currently she does occasional voice-over and narration work, and sometimes attends film conventions and Hammer Film events, as a guest. I have had the opportunity, as have many, to quickly chat with Judy here on facebook several times, and I can honestly say she is always very friendly and happy to chat! A lovely lady 🙂 Please help us celebrate Judy's birthday today and wish her a VERY Happy Birthday 🙂 We hope you are enjoying your day, Judy?
 

Thursday, 9 February 2017

UNIVERSAL BLU RAY BOX SET IS A MONSTER SUCESS!


#THROWBACKTHURSDAY : This weeks first Thursday nostalgia post is not Peter Cushing themed..but boy how I wish it was! Birthdays are wonderful things, well wishes and gifts are wonderful too... and even though my Birthday is a few weeks away yet, my sister treated me to an 'advance' on a gift 🙂 🙂 The Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection [Blu-ray] box set, is a VERY fine thing indeed.


IN MY TEENS I watched and read everything I could on these classic films, and watching them again is a thrill! I also love 3D films, and snap up anything I can find.. the Creature from the Black Lagoon 3D disc in this box set is worth the price alone! It's ALL here Karloff Frankenstein, Chaney Wolfman, Rains Phantom...and ALL remastered and looking and sounding superb on blu rays. Which leads me to ask..why couldn't the BEST of Hammer films be presented in this way?



THE EXTRAS, the booklet, even the lovely packaging is excellent. Is it because Lionsgate and co are cheap??? Hammer licensing distributors don't have the budget? They won't sell enough to make their money back on making a quality release...remastering is expensive??? Well, maybe it's all of those things. But over the years, we have had many re-releases of Cushing's Hammer films, and only WARNERS Horror Classics, Volume One has met anywhere near this Universal release, it's an outstanding presentation. I was very pleased that the remasters were well over what I expected, and they didn't cheap out on packaging either. So, both Universal and Warner, certainly show us how it could and should be done. So, let's stop with the cheapo releases, fans will always buy what's done well 🙂 Do you have this Universal box set? What do you think? How about the Warner Hammer set too?


THIS I ALSO RECOMMEND if you are a fan of the show. I know, Peter Cushing did himself enjoy the humor of Charles Addams... not sure if he saw the shows, but he did have a few of the Addams illustrations, in his scrapbooks! This box set kept me laughing all last weekend. Recommended.


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