#MOMENTSOFTERRORMONDAY!
After, 'You may fire, when ready!' and 'Attack the Daleks!' 'The Devil
has sent me, Twins of Evil!' is probably one of the most quoted Peter
Cushing lines of dialogue. And with good reason. Peter Cushing here
playing the tyrannical, Gustav Weil...see what they did there?...
squeezes every drop of fear out of that line. If you've seen Hammer
films 'Twins of Evil' (1971) you would have witness, one of the tightest
performances, after his turn as Baron Frankenstein in Hammer's 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969), Cushing ever committed to film.
TWINS OF EVIL was the first film that Cushing
appeared in, after traumatic passing of his wife, Helen. He spent just
three months away from work, the man who returned was a great deal
leaner, withdrawn and now sadly broken. What we see on the screen is
raw. Which makes the viewing of his playing of Weil, all the more sadder
and yet, compulsive . .
SPOILER! If there was ever a on the edge of your seat moment in a Hammer
film, featuring Peter Cushing, THIS would probably be it. Count
Karnstein and Gustav Weil go face to face, in the final moments of
Hammer films, 'Twins of Evil' (1971)
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