CONGRATULATIONS James Pearcy, Vivienne Dunston, David Little and Carl
Beach! You are ALL Winners and have all bagged yourself a copy of the Second Sight Films Limited Edition Blu Ray release of Amicus films 'ASYLUM'..... Well Done! You will need to message us please 😉
MANY thanks to Second Sight Films for sponsoring your competitions over
the last two weeks! They are VERY good releases, prints and extras!
Look out for our PCAS review of BOTH Second sight Film releases 'House that
Dripped Blood' and 'Asylum' this week. For everyone who entered and
didn't win, thanks for taking part and your support . Make sure YOU
are around on FRIDAY😉 - Marcus
OUR FINAL and very popular #SecondSightFilms
/ PCASUK Competition closed last night at midnight GMT. All entries are
now in and the FOUR LUCKY WINNERS names will be announced HERE and at
the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE TODAY! We'll be publishing a full review of both
Second Sight Amicus Films Limited Edition Blu Ray releases this THURSDAY
at the website, a long with screen captures and GIFS. The response to
both these competitions has been extremely positive. You can pre-order
both 'The House That Dripped Blood' and
'Asylum' from #SecondSightFilms now, while stocks last HERE!. This is a limited
edition release and the addition extras on 'House' make these two
Cushing and Lee #Amicusfilms, a very worthy addition to any collection.
You'll be pleased to hear the quality of both films make these
particular releases, the new benchmark if you are wanting to purchase
these TWO titles 😀 Meanwhile, sit tight . . . YOU could be a #WINNER 😛 - Marcus
ABOVE: MEANWHILE, you might wanna be around on Friday, for this weeks PCASUK #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY!
HERE WE GO EVERYONE! Many thanks to Second Sight Films for their sponsoring of this and our last AMICUS CUSHING COMPETITION!... Asylum is one
of my all time favorite Amicus / Peter Cushing films, and I think this
release is going to go quite crackers and sell out very quickly on its
release day 29th July2019. You CAN PREORDER NOW RIGHT HERE! THIS COMPETITION is now LIVE at the FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE. IF you feel like giving yourself a go!? The last PCAS competition to win FOUR COPIES of SECOND SIGHT FILMS LIMITED EDITION OF ' 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' was very popular and already it looks like THIS comp will make and hit some new numbers for our entries again!
THE SECOND SIGHT FILMS release not only presents us with a very neat and much improved print of the film, which stars some of the best of not only past Amicus casts but a neat crew in 'post production' and behind the camera too. The film has a pretty tight story and each of the four tales of terror skip along, just pausing for breath under Peter Tanner's editing. Tanner has a very good understanding of the pace needed for Brit Fantasy and strange stories, having edited some of the best of the TV series 'The Avengers' in nine episodes during 65 and 66. Tanner worked a few Amicus films and was in demand until 1998, sadly passing at the grand age of 88 in 2002.
CAMERA OPERATOR NEIL BINNEY, who made a very firm mark of quality on several of Amicus films rival, Hammer films over the years, makes everything appear in the set design of the titled 'Asylum' building, look every inch clinical, but not-quite-in-the-world-of-the-real! Roy Ashton, provides his skilled eye and hand on the make up of everything from quite nasty scars to 'what is trying to break out of that manikin?' plus Douglas Gamley - The City Of The Dead (61) , The Road to Hong Kong (62), A Shot In The Dark (63) The Land Thar Time Forgot (74)- and moves the scrapes, thuds and off time clanks of Elisabeth Lutyens. Gamley thankfully was yet to discover the art of naff 'The Beats Must Die' score and sets a terrific and powerful kick off bringing in his arrangement of Mussorgsky's 'Night On Bald Mountain' and pieces of his own making, to make a film that not only looks frightening but also rips a score, that gets the toes a curling! So much to watch and hear. Along with this we have a VERY nice assortment of goodies in the EXTRA FEATURES department . .
ABOVE: JUST LIKE AMICUS, the art and timing of the 'good build-up' in how we set the scene, ready for the lauch of this the SECOND AMICUS PCAS and SECOND SIGHT FILMS competition, was about to go live on facebook, shortly . .
OUR PART FIVE of the FILMS OF PETER CUSHING which includes ASYLUM complete with rare stills gallery : HERE!
THE EXTRA VALUE OF EXTRAS!
Audio Commentary with Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney
Two’s a Company: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling, James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production Manager Teresa Bolland Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert Bloch Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky
Inside The Fear Factory: Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and Producer Max J. Rosenberg
Theatrical Trailer Reversible sleeve featuring new artwork by Graham Humphreys and original artwork Limited Edition Contents
Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork by Graham Humphreys 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger Reversible poster featuring new and original artwork
DID YOU MISS our FIRST AMICUS BLU RAY competition? IF SO, grab your opportunity to catch this one, at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE of the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society : RIGHT HERE!
NEWS: Announced today, is the news of the arrival of TWO Amicus Peter
Cushing films being released as limited editions next month on blu ray SECOND SIGHT FILMS
in the UK for the FIRST TIME on the 29th of JULY 2019! Both THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and ASYLUM contain very neat menu of bonus
extras, some new additions, some passed over from previous releases. but BOTH have exceptional cases artwork by my good mate, Graham Humphreys,
plus both have supplement 40 page booklets on the movies too! Here is
the run down on what each release is offering as a pretty neat package .
. we'll be sharing a review on this release, the print and the contents
very soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Meanwhile, you can place YOUR PRE ORDER HERE!
ASYLUM Limited Edition Contents • Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork
by Graham Humphreys • 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce,
Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger Special Features • Audio Commentary with
Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney • ‘Two’s a
Company’: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer
Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling,
James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production
Manager Teresa Bolland • Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert
Bloch • Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky • Inside The Fear
Factory Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and
Producer Max J. Rosenberg • Theatrical Trailer
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
Limited Edition Contents
• Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• 40 page soft cover book with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger
Special Features
• Audio Commentary with Director Peter Duffell and Author Jonathan Rigby
• Audio Commentary with Film Historian and Author Troy Howarth
• Interview with Second Assistant Director Mike Higgins
• A Rated Horror Film - Vintage featurette featuring interviews with Director Peter Duffell and Actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt and Chloe Franks
• Theatrical Trailers
• Amicus Radio Spots
• Stills Gallery
RELEASE NEWS:
Arrow Films have announced they are putting out a band new remastered
blu-ray of Horror Express (1972) starring Peter Cushing and Christopher
Lee. This brings a REMASTERED blu ray to fan of the film in the UK for the first time!
RELEASE DATE: February 11th 2019 (UK) February 12th 2019 (US, CAN)
SPECIAL EDITION CONTENTS • Brand new 2K restoration from original film elements • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation • Original Uncompressed mono audio • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing • Brand new audio commentary with Stephen Jones and Kim Newman • Introduction to the film by film journalist and Horror Express super-fan Chris Alexander • Murder on the Trans-Siberian Express – an interview with director Eugenio Martin • Notes from the Blacklist – Horror Express producer Bernard Gordon on working in Hollywood during the McCarthy Era • Telly and Me – an interview with composer John Cacavas • Original Theatrical Trailer • Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Fully-illustrated collector’s booklet with new writing by Adam Scovell
It's not released until September 21, 2015..but here's our first proper
look at the Odeon Entertainment Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Steel Book Blu ray packaging. Looks very nice indeed. With it's LIMITED
numbered edition release of 4,000, with specially commissioned artwork
by Graham Humphreys, the extras Include a brand new making of Dr Terror
documentary by Nucleus Films and a recently filmed appreciation of the
life and career of the late Sir Christopher Lee. It's available for PRE
ORDER now….
Here's a HEADS UP and a SNEAK PREVIEW of the extras coming our way in
the LIMITED EDITION REGION FREE STEEL BOOK BLU RAY release of Amicus
films 'DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS'. It's a available now as a pre
order with an official release date of September 21st 2015.
Scanned at 4k by Pinewood Post Production and with newly commissioned
Steel Book art by the renowned Graham Humphreys, this collector's
version is limited to 4,000 individually
numbered Steel Books. Dr Terror (Peter Cushing) is a mysterious fortune
teller who boards a train and offers to tell fellow passengers
(Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Donald Sutherland) their fortune with
tarot cards.
Five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his
ancestral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating
vine takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art
critic is pursued by a disembodied hand and a doctor discovers his new
wife is a vampire. But they all end in the same result…..death. A
fascinating and fast paced example of portmanteau film-making with a
deadly twist in the tale.
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