Showing posts with label fright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fright. Show all posts

Tuesday 30 October 2018

HALLOWEEN COMPETITION NUMBER ONE NOW CLOSED: WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2018




BOO! HERE IT IS! 🙂 The FIRST of our THREE PCAS Halloween Competitions 2018 🙂 PLEASE ONLY send your answers using the MESSAGE / CONTACT BUTTON at the top of this page, as usual. Sadly, any entries posted in the thread below, will be deleted and not counted as entries. If you can't wait to win, to own your own copy of this outstanding remaster of a great Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee Hammer DRACULA film... the blu ray is OUT NOW! 

YOU can ORDER and PURCHASE your copy of the Warner Brothers Archive Collection REMASTEREd Blu Ray HERE!






THE GIFS IN THIS FEATURE WERE NOT MADE
 USING THE REMASTERED BLU RAY

WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER Warner Brothers Competiton TOMORROW, where you can bag yourself copies of the remastered blu ray of the Dracula AD 1972 SEQUEL, 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'! All correct answers will be as always, dropped into a pot and FIVE lucky winners will be announced HERE on Thursday November 15th! As ever, this competition is OPEN to everyone, no matter where you are! So GOOD LUCK! Have fun and get your entry in NOW 😉








Monday 25 December 2017

CHRISTMAS EVE :CHRISTOPHER LEE A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS


CHRISTMAS EVE IS HERE, at last! And maybe for some of you, the shopping, the cooking, the preparation is now over. I DO hope so! If not, put this little post in your bookmark, for later. Preferably a time, when it's quiet. Switch off the lights, settle in and prepare yourself, for that OTHER great Christmas tradition . ..  The Christmas Ghost Story. I've especially picked this one from the BBC television series, that Christopher Lee appeared in 2000. The episode I've selected is in my humble opinion, the best of the series, also forgive my indulgence, it's my favorite Ghost Story. Maybe because I first hear it, in another BBC televised drama of the story, starring ROBERT HARDY, way back in 1971, when I was but a terrified little chap, hiding behind my grandmother's sofa! Christopher Lee really does a fabulous reading, that I am sure you'll enjoy. You'll probably need to get that mulled wine on the boil, as this is a real Christmas Chiller! Merry Christmas! Enjoy!

 
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Thursday 20 April 2017

IT'S NOT JUST THE EYES THAT FOLLOW YOU AROUND THE ROOM!


WITH THE EXCEPTION of dear old Arthur Grimsdyke in 'Tales from the Crypt' Peter Cushing never did get to play a physical grotesque. Amazing when you consider that wonderful facial bone structure. A make up artist's dream! If ever you find yourself at The Prater in Vienna, and your heart can take it, you must go and seek out this animated digital 'painting' of Peter Cushing's likeness for yourself! Spooky? What do you think?


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Thursday 14 July 2016

#TBT REAL STRANGE AND SPOOKY GOINGS ON IN CUSHING 'CREEPING FLESH' FILM! CAN YOU SPOT IT?


YOU WOULD EXPECT the set of a Peter Cushing horror film to be a spooking and slightly unnerving place. You wouldn't be surprised to see the occasional skeleton, disembodied body parts hanging around or things moving around by themselves, but aided by a out of shot prop or special effects guy. BUT WHAT ABOUT MOVING UNASSISTED BY THE PROP GUY???


 
WELL, THAT CERTAINLY SEEMS TO BE THE CASE HERE! The film is THE CREEPING FLESH  a very enjoyable horror film, starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Lorna Heilbron, George Benson and even, Michael Ripper gets a quick look in. It's one of the few films that Tigon Films produced in the 1970's, along with 'Blood On Satan's Claw' and that other Tigon Cushing outing, The Blood Beast Terror in 1968. Low on budget, but occasionally, quite polished and original. No Dracula's or Frankenstein's here...but certainly at times, they give some of Hammer films early 70's releases, a good run for their money! Though for a limited time, a very good quality DVD was available of this film, believed to have been struck off a superior HD master print, after some copyright issues, the DVD release vanished from sales and can now only occasionally be found on ebay, for very silly money indeed.  It's a film that is still sadly awaiting a blu ray release with a deserving menu of extra features and the bits and bobs, that make horror film buffs froth!


I GUESS I AM ONE OF THE LUCKY ONES, that put my money down, before the asking price went up! Certain cretins think making the price go north, is a dead cert to get fans to part with their lolly. Not The Case. So, the film unfortunately for the meantime, is out of the grasp for many. But, the tom tom drums tell me a Blu Ray is a-comin-soon!


HOWEVER, BACK TO THE PLOT. . . .  Peter Cushing's, more than able co-star for much of this film is Christopher Lee, but actor GEORGE BENSON has a good deal to do in his screen time with Cushing and shares some major suspenseful scenes! Which brings us to the film clip above, featuring both Cushing and Benson. We spotted something MOST peculiar in this shot. Cushing's Dr Emmanuel Hildern is explaining some important plot details to Benson's 'Waterlow'...and then... well. See if YOU can spot it too? If you can why not visit us at our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page, where we have just posted this clip too...and let us know what you have seen...or not! Have fun!



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Monday 11 April 2016

NAME THAT MOVIE MONDAY : ONE STILL. ONE TITLE. CAN YOU NAME THAT CUSHING MOVIE?


Over at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE we are just about to kick off a new regular feature for Monday's...As well as our regular  #MONSTERMONDAY feature, you can now enjoy a #NAMETHEMOVIEMONDAY feature! Every Monday we'll be posting some fiendish screen grabs and lesser seen publicity stills from Peter Cushing and Hammer films, and asking you to tax your grey matter and identify, the title of the film, from the image.

Above is this week's puzzler. See if you can NAME THE MOVIE? Either email us at theblackboxclub.com or join us at the PCAS Facebbok Fan Page!


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Wednesday 9 December 2015

FESTIVE FRIGHTS OVER CHRISTMAS : BRIDES OF DRACULA AT HORROR CHANNEL


A heads up on how you can catch Peter Cushing's Hammer films classic THE BRIDES OF DRACULA on the HORROR CHANNEL over the festive season. PETER CUSHING plays VAN HELSING in his second outing as the 'vampire hunter' since Hammer's 1958 DRACULA /HORROR OF DRACULA with CHRISTOPHER LEE. This time, despite the hint in the title, is is NO Dracula, but an evil Baron Meinster, played by DAVID PEEL in his only Hammer film appearance. Van Helsing was one of the many fantasy characters that Cushing played for Hammer films, along with BARON FRANKENSTEIN  and SHERLOCK HOLMES  he played Van Helsing in no less than FIVE Hammer films, DRACULA / HORROR OF DRACULA IN 1958, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA in 1960, DRACULA AD 1972 in 1972, THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA 1973 and finally in LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES in 1974.


THE BRIDES OF DRACULA is seen by many as one of Hammer's main 'marquee' titles, from their golden age when the company were based at Bray Studios, producing some of their best know PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE TITLES such as THE MUMMY in 1959, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN in 1958, THE GORGON in 1965 and Cushing vechicles like  FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN  and THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN in 1958.


THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, even without Christopher Lee is a fine example of the Hammer films style, with a very strong cast supported by Martita Hunt, Freda Jackson, Michael Ripper and the beautiful Yvonne Monlaur.

RECCOMENDED *****

ALL OF THE LINKED FILM TITLES INCLUDED THIS POST ABOVE, ON CLICKING WILL TAKE YOU TO REVIEWS AND FEATURES SUPPORTED BY EXTENSIVE GALLERIES OF RARE AND VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THAT FILM. BELOW ARE A SMALL SELECTION.








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Saturday 17 October 2015

SKULLS ROLLER SKATES AND IMAGINATION : WIN EUREKAS AMICUS NIGHTMARE 'THE SKULL' HERE


Anyone watching Amicus Films, THE SKULL starring the grand masters of terror, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee would not fail to be impressed by some of pretty nifty camerawork and special effects. Effects and trickery, that one wouldn't expect to see on a film with such a limited budget.

So, just how did they achieve that floating camera effect? This was way before the arrival of the 'Steadicam', a tool so commonly used in films today, one no longer takes notice of those effortless guiding tracking shots. What looked great and was a groundbreaker, on the steps of the city hall, where Sylvester 'Rocky' Stallone runs through the city and leaps up those steps, the camera following him ALL the way, is now taken for granted. But back in 1965, the laying of tracks and hiring of camera cranes took time and money. Money and time that this film, did not have.


Well, take a look at the photograph above. That's director Freddie Francis, award winning cinematographer, who even back then, obviously stood by the old adage of, 'I wouldn't ask you to do anything, that I wasn't prepared to do myself! The camera was required to glide and give us an effortless 'Point-of-View' shot, as if the camera were the 'Skull' floating across the room. For this, to be achieved cheaply and effectively, Francis strapped on a pair of rollerskates, had a simple harness made, which secured the camera to his chest. With a gentle push from an assistant, and another holding him steady, both camera and camera operator as one, glided across the hard studio floor, as if on ice!

If you remember, the camera while floating was actually looking THROUGH the 'Skull's' eye socket! For this, Francis had a simple light weight 'mask' made of paper-mache, bolted onto a framework, that held the sockets, in front of the camera lens. Enabling, the camera to see THROUGH the sockets!

Cheap? Yes. Eccentric looking? Yes. Effective? Certainly. And THE SKULL looks all the better for it. They say, 'Necessity is the mother of invention!'. Indeed, when there is no money in the pot, the script is 30 mins short, skilled technicians like Freddie Francis, found a way.


Amicus films, THE SKULL is a master class in how to get the most from your director and cast, with as little money as possible. Producer, Milton Subotsky made sure his productions that had casts, that some main features, with triple his budget, could only dream of. The secret, was to write characters that only appeared in three or four scenes, before you either kill them off or they leave the action. This is how THE SKULL boasts a cast of Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Patrick Wymark, Jill Bennett, Nigel Green and Peter Woodthorpe. The wonderful thing about Amicus productions is, they may not have cost much to make, but I suspect every penny, and we may well be talking about pennies here... is up there on the screen!


You can WIN one of THREE copies up for grabs in our SKULL COMPETITION. A brand new, remastered BLU RAY and DVD DUO package, from EUREKA! Check out the panel below, answer the question and send it to us at theblackboxclub@gmail.com ... and try your luck. Like Freddie and the effects team, have a go, you could be right. You might just crack it!


THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED HERE ARE THE WINNERS!


You can PREORDER your copy of THE SKULL blu ray/dvd dual edition RIGHT NOW from AMAZON.CO UK. HERE 


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