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 RayHERE!
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 😉
TRIVIA: Here is something to get your brain cells ready for the start of
our FIRST Warner Brothers PCASUK competition THIS TUESDAY (30th October) 😉 Here is a bit of fun, I have posted over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE😉
HERE ARE FOUR rare and collectable Hammer films Dracula AD 1972 trading
cards. Which is the ODD ONE OUT and TELL US why! Shouldn't be difficult
for the Hammer Drac fans here 😉 Lets see how many of you can guess this correctly 😉 - Marcus
HERE IS YOUR HEADS UP of when the first TWO competitons will kick start
on here the PCASUK Website AND the facebook PCASUK Fan Page. The 'Dracula AD
1972' competition will be launched on TUESDAY October 30th and the Satanic Rites
of Dracula Competiton will be launched the following day on WEDNESDAY October
31st... Halloween! 🙂
The competition for the framed and signed colour photograph of
Christopher Lee from Dracula AD 1972, will launch the FIRST WEEK of
November 😉 The PCAS Competitions are OPEN to EVERYONE. Whoever and Wherever YOU maybe! So brace yourself and get ready 😉 Any questions or queries, please post in the thread below 😉 - Marcus
DRACULA RESSURECTED: ABOVE OUR REVIEW OF THE WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED BLU RAY OF DRACULA AD 1972 : CLICK HERE!
NEWS: WITH THE RELEASE of the TWILIGHT TIME blu ray of Hammer films,
'SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST ' it's great to be able to announce the launch
of ANOTHER Cushing / Hammer films competition, during NOVEMBER 3rd and
4th 2018. We have FIVE copies of the Twilight Time LIMITED EDITION blu
ray to give away as prizes. So keep your eyes peeled for more news on
the competiton and YOU TOO could be a WINNER. MANY MANY thanks to the guys at Twilight Time for support ANOTHER PCASUK Competition, with a very generous sponsorship of prizes!
TODAY WE REMEMBERthe wonderful, VINCENT PRICE who we sadly lost
on this day in 1993. Over at the FACBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE many are sharing their memories and stories plus their favourites from the extensive career that VINCENT PRICE shared with us! HERE are just a few of the films that have been mentioned. CAN YOU NAME THE FILMS THAT ARE FEATURED IN OUR GIFS?? Feel free to join in at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.
NEWS: From November 3rd, Horror Channel celebrates vintage 1950s home-grown fantasy and horror with a HAMMER CLASSICS SEASON on SATURDAY NIGHTS! This primetime Saturday night season, is rolling out FOUR network premieres, which star Peter Cushing, and kicks off with Val Guest’s atmospheric masterpiece, 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN', The other three, are all directed by Terence Fisher: Cushing and Lee's FIRST Hammer film, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957), the hypnotically sensual and ground breaking DRACULA (1958), which launched Cushing and Christopher Lee into global stardom, and THE MUMMY (1959). All FOUR make for splendid Saturday Night shocks...and a wonderful introduction to anyone who wants to sample the amazing work of Hammer, Cushing and Lee. What a TRIO! AND WE AT PCAS will be watching them too. We'll be FLAGGING UP a post to remind you of the BROADCAST and invting you to watch too and join us for a chat on the movie after on our FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! PLEASE come and JOIN US!
THE SEASON season kicks off first with : Sat 3 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN' (1957) – *Network Premiere : THEN Sat 10 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN' (1957) * Network Premiere, Sat 17 Nov @ 21:00 – 'DRACULA' (1958) *Network Premiere and finally, Sat 24 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE MUMMY' (1959) *Network Premiere. A GREAT line up! - Marcus
HAMMER FILMS 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA', narrowly missed being landed with the crass
title of ' Dracula is Dead...and Well and Living in London' when
shootinmg began in November 1972. When the film was distributed in 1979
by Dynamite Films in a heavily edited version, the curse of having bad
title came back to haunt it, when it was released as 'Count Dracula and
His Vampire Bride' The Legend of the Seven Golden
Vampires, was also released and stamped in the US by Dynamite Films in
1979 in a heavily edited version as 'The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula', and
was alternately known on the US trailer as The 7 Brothers and their One
Sister Meet Dracula. Subtle? Hardly... Christopher Lee was never
comforatble with the dragging of his rep and the Count into 1970's
London, and 'jumping on a Number 21 red double decker bus, to Battersea'
Thankfully, it never got to that point and did quite well. But these
titles almost pushed it past that point...
INTERESTINGLY,
Dynamite Films was owned by Max Rosenberg, the one time, one half of
the Amicus films partnership, with Milton Subotsky. Throughout the 60's
and 70's, Amicus were sometimes seen as Hammer's competition, though
they never pulled the box office receipts that the Hammer House of
Horror pulled. Although Tales from the Crypt did VERY well. How ironic,
that Rosenberg would one day be distributing his own 'hack edit' job of
Hammer's two final vampire films!
#TBT #THROWBACKTHURSDAY! Here's a clip we edited for Callum McKelvie's first Weekend Double
feature, on Hammer films, The Curse of Frankenstein and Revenge of
Frankenstein, with 'Halloween' director, John Carpenter sharing his
thoughts on one of his all time favorite Hammer films... 🙂
It's great when established directors give credit to work that
influenced them . . .Tim Burton and Martin Scorsese have all stepped up
and doffed their caps...
TODAY WE MARK THE BIRTH of one, Lewis Ernest Watts Mills... or as we
knew and loved him... Sir John Mills. He was without doubt, one of our
most popular and beloved English actors and born today February 22nd
1908. In a career that stretched over eight decades, Mills appeared in
over 120 films, debuting in 1932 in 'Midshipmaid Gob' right up until
2009 in 'The Snow Prince'. Many of his roles like Pip in 'Great
Expectations' in 1946, Shorty Blake 'In Which We Serve' in 42, Captain
Scott in 'Scott of the Antarctic' in 48 and the alcohol troubled
Captain Anson in 'Ice Cold in Alex' in 58 would make him an
internationally renowned star.
MILL APPEARED IN TWO FILMS with Peter Cushing, the first in 1976
entitled 'Trial by Combat' aka 'A Dirty Knight's Work' as Sir Edward
Gifford. It was no more than a guest appearance, slotted in when another
project on Cushing's slate fell through. The second though, was a much
grander enterprise with Tyburn films and marked Cushing's return to the
character of Sherlock Holmes...and Mills as Watson! They made a terrific
team as a much older duo, so impressive was the chemistry that another
Cushing /Mills / Sherlock film from Tyburn was planned entitled 'The
Abbot's Cry', but was scuppered owing to Cushing's fragile health.
LIKE CUSHING, Mills was in his private life a sensitive romantic, in
January 2001 at the age of 92, he and wife Mary, age 89, renewed their
marriage vows at St. Mary's Church, next to their home, Hills House, in
Denham, England. When they had wed 60 years earlier, he was denied a
church service because he was serving in the Army during World War II.
Happy Birthday, Sir John!
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