#GIMMEGIFWEDNESDAY: Wilbur Gray, must have been an exhausting role for Peter Cushing to play. Reacting full of fright to fang furry felines, every few takes, must take it out of you! 'The Uncanny' had all the trappings of what we would expect from a Milton Subostky portmanteau film, the concept and model he and Max Rosenberg had successfully produced during the 19760's and 70's under the banner of their, Amicus films company. With funding and film production drying up in the UK during this time, Milton had to base the film in Canada... though with a largely British cast, you'd never know it. Amicus films always had that 'Meanwhile, somewhere..' look about them, pretty much like the US comic's strips that provided the plots and titles for the film.
THE UNCANNY was released by the UK distributor Rank and was given an X certificate . .. some of the mutilations and pussy-left-overs, were quite graphic and unsettling. Mangled-bloodied-clawed and chewed leftovers of classical actress Joan Greenwood, anyone?? And that cast, like many of Subotsky's productions, is unexpected, top drawer and inspired!
WHAT IS THE 1948 'ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN' CONNECTION TO THIS FILM??
FEATURE AND GALLERY : THE UNCANNY
NEVER HAS one persons head had so much screen time! Peter Cushing in the Amicus film THE SKULL
In real life the Marquis de Sade's body was exhumed from its grave in the grounds of the lunatic asylum at Charenton, where he died in 1814, and his skull was removed for phrenological analysis. It was subsequently lost, and its fate remains unknown...
#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY:
For Maria Wilson , Seattle. I am sure it would have looked very
effective in 3D...but Amicus films I, MONSTER sure does look at a little
weird at times... shots that were intended to be in the '3D process'
now have that 'coming at you...sort of' flat feel about them. A good
example of this, is this shot that Maria has requested here, of
Christopher Lee, and his bunsen burner. A kind of... 'Can I LIGHT that
cigar, for you?....!'
PETER CUSHING and CHRISTOPHER LEE'S performances in 'I MONSTER' are covered in THIS FEATURE at this website!
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