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Thursday 30 November 2017

NEW THEMED DAY: HORRIBLE DEATH WEDNESDAY : GIFS DYING TO SHARE!


#HORRIBLEDEATHWEDNESDAY! All change.... Wednesday's have now switched from requested GIFS to a series of GIFS and POSTS of creatures, monsters, villains, and victims from the work of Peter Cushing. Here is a taster gallery for oday... So, expect the most 'Popular Poppin' Their Clogs' here now, every Wednesday 🙂 What is YOUR favorite Horrible Exit of Monster or Character from a Cushing films??? Come JOIN US at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE and tell us!


#HORRBLEDEATHWEDNESDAYS! How could forget this very Dorian Gray-ques finish to #HAMMERFILMS 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS' (1970)? Following Peter Cushing's chopping of Camilla Karnstein's head (Ingrid Pitt), the oil portrait, aging from the beautiful vixen, to just bones! Very effective...and considerably cheaper than staging a while aging corpse from flesh and blood to ashes! 


#HORRIBLEDEATHWEDNESDAYS!: RICHARD JOHNSON as vampire,with Donald Pleasence and Anthony Valentine as Vampire Hunters, trying to 'put him to rest'! Britt Ekland, as the wife of Johnson looks on in despair. Vampire Lore, played for laughs!  It was producer / writer Milton Subotsky's ambition to one day make a horror film, for the 'kids'. He almost did it. 'THE MONSTER CLUB' sadly, falls a little between stools. An Amicus film, in everything but name, it has some nice touches but sometimes looks very dated and lame today. UNLESS you are a lover of that very sleezey patch between the end of the 70's and the beginning of the 80's.... punk was out, and novelty was in, thus effecting popular music. The 'Monster Club' of the title, looks the worst. Filling a film set with extras wearing rubber masks, even for the cheapest of Amicus films in the 60's is a long fall. The saving grace, is Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, John Carradine, and a good cast, with two good stories. 'Young people', teens are a fickle lot, what seemed like a good idea as it was put on paper, was pass'e even before the ink was dry! 


#HORRIBLEDEATHWEDNESDAYS!: MICHAEL RIPPER, was often on the receiving end of bad luck in many of his films for Hammer films. But here, as Mipps in Hammer's 'Captain Clegg' (US Night Creatures) of once, he gets to off a baddie! The mute victim of Peter Cushing's pirate in disguise, Milton Reid, takes the bullet and dies...conveniently in the basement workshop of the local undertakers!  


#HORRIBLEDEATHWEDNESDAY! IT MUST have been a daunting task, facing the prospect of playing a lead male vampire in a Hammer film. Who could fill Christopher Lee's shoes? For sure, back in the day, when any Hammer film announced the release of a vampire film, that featured a COUNT, I am sure prospective botties on seats, thought of ONE COUNT, who sadly wasn't turning up for this gig!  It happened with David Peel a decade earlier in 'THE BRIDES OF DRACULA', and maybe with Damien Thomas as Count Karnstein, in Hammer's 'TWINS OF EVIL' (1971) Having said that, this was Thomas's first feature film, and he did quite a good job. Hammer's money men, thought him worthy of a proper 'Dracula-like' special effect aging death! An expensive process, back in the day...and here with only ONE cut away shot! No even Christopher Lee's death in 'HORROR OF DRACULA' (1958) had such confidence!


#HORRIBLEDEATHSWEDNESDAY!: AFTER 'THE ABOMINABLE DR PHIBES', was released in 1971, it started a trend for horror films, with imaginative death scenes! Vincent Price's 'THEATRE OF BLOOD' in 1973, the sequel to the first Phibes film, 'DR PHIBES RISES AGAIN' and Amicus films, 'MADHOUSE' in 1974, all benefited from scriptwriters burning the night oil, desperately trying to think of fiendish and amusing ways of killing off co stars. This Shish kebab shot, is a clever one! Killing two unfortunates, at the same time. Doctor Death strikes again!



'LA GRANDE BRETECHE' : ORSON WELLES GREAT MYSTERIES WITH PETER CUSHING SUSANNAH YORK : COMING SOON! 

 
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Monday 14 March 2016

CANDID PHIBES : PRICE CUSHING KEMP AND HOWERD


THREE photographs gracing our PETER CUSHING FACEBOOK FAN PAGE today. The first, taken during a break in shooting 'The Abominable Dr Phibes' at Elstree studios in December 1970, Vincent Price meets UK comedian Frankie Howerd who was making 'Up Pompeii' next-door! A missed opportunity with Howerd to be cast in the Terry-Thomas role, but it was one of those things that didn't work out.


And then, a pre shooting publicity press photograph of both Vincent Price and Australian actress Valli Kemp...with a publicity shot of Peter Cushing as the Ship's Captain, from the 1972 'Dr Phibes Rises Again' , shot at Elstree, UK. Peter's role was sadly no more than a cameo... quite a shift from what COULD have been, when the casting was taking place for the AIP first outing, 'The Abominable Dr Phibes' also starring Vincent Price....


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Monday 22 September 2014

NEWS: PHIBES BLU RAYS GET REGION B RELEASE


NEWS: Both Special Edition Dr Phibes BLU RAYS get a REGION FOUR release on NOVEMBER 10th this year from #ArrowFilms...Both absolute Price classics with wonderful casting. For PC fans '...Rises Again' contains Peter Cushing's fleeting cameo performance as the ship's Captain, worth it alone,  just for the pay off of the following scene.


The Abominable Dr Phibes Rises Again
Release Date: 10th November 2014
Format: Blu-ray
Starring: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Peter Cushing, Fiona Lewis, Beryl Reid, John Thaw
Directed by: Robert Fuest
 
Synopsis:The abominable Dr. Phibes is back – and still looking to resurrect his beloved wife, Victoria. His quest takes him to Egypt in search of a Pharaoh’s tomb and the Rivers of Life that will bring her back to him. The Egyptian setting provides Dr. Phibes Rises Again with an air of adventure – the film paying affectionate if slightly camp homage to the cliffhanger serials of the 1930s and the ripping yarns of H. Rider Haggard. Boasting a starrier cast than the original film, Dr. Phibes Rises Again sees Vincent Price joined by an impressive roster of familiar faces, including fellow horror icon Peter Cushing (The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula), Robert Quarry (Count Yorga, Vampire), Fiona Lewis (The Fury), Beryl Reid (Psychomania) and a young John Thaw.
 
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation transferred from original film elements by MGM
Original uncompressed 1.0 Mono PCM Audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary by critic and author Tim Lucas
Daughter of Phibes – Victoria Price discusses Vincent Price’s career
 The Doctor Will See You Now – an interview with Vincent Price’s biographer, David Del Valle
Theatrical Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring alternate original artworks
Collector’s booklet featuring an interview with Tim Burton conducted by Constantine Nasr, illustrated with original archive posters and stills
 
SPEC DETAILS:
Region: B
Rating: 15
Cat No: FCD1022
Duration: 89 mins
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 1.0 Mono
Colour



SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS:
 High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation transferred from original film elements by MGM
 Original uncompressed 1.0 Mono PCM Audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
 Audio commentary by director Robert Fuest
 Audio commentary by the creator of Dr. Phibes, William Goldstein
 Dr Phibes and the Gentlemen – The League of Gentlemen fondly recall a British horror classic
Theatrical Trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring alternate original artworks
Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Julian Upton and the on-set reminiscences of Caroline Munro, illustrated with original archive posters and stills gallery.

SPEC DETAILS:
Region: B
Rating: 15
Cat No: FCD1021
Duration: 94 mins
Language: English
Subtitles: English SDH
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audio: 1.0 Mono
Colour


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