Showing posts with label horror films.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror films.. Show all posts

Wednesday 30 October 2019

HAMMER FILMS : THE COMPANY WHO CHEATED DEATH : THE LODGE TRAILER


'While Hammer is looking at remakes too, some ownership is complex, though the characters are in the public domain: Frankenstein’s monster, mummies, #Dracula, #mobsters, psychopaths, and even cave girls . .'


HERE THEY COME AGAIN! For many, any film released now with the HAMMER name, can not possibly be 'A Hammer Film' . . as the set up, as they see it, has all but changed, except 'THE' name. But, a careful look at the history and style of #Hammerfilms over the decades changed a great deal from 1938 until their slow death in the late 70's This feature written by Mark Beech, can be seen HERE was published in FORBES just a few days ago. 




 'THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH' A PAST HAMMER FILM CLASSIC. REVIEW AND GALLERY


STILLS GALLERY FEATURE AND MORE! JUST PRESS LINK!


BOTH BOX OFFICE WINNERS! REVIEW AND RARE STILLS GALLERY. 
JUST PRESS LINK.


ANOTHER HAMMER FILMS CLASSIC FRANKENSTEIN : 'FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED' JUST CLICK THE LINK!

WHATEVER YOU MAKE of it, they mean business . . and I mean the business of '#lolly, #cash and #dosh' BUT then so did Hammer films CEO Sir James Carreras .. back in their hey day!... 😊Have your say, please over at the Facebook PCAS UK Fan Page! I am all ears 😉


THE 1959 HAMMER FILM 'THE MUMMY'! RARE STILLS AND FEATURE. JUST CLICK LINK

HERE ARE SOME EXTRACTS form the Forbes feature . . 

'While Hammer is looking at remakes too, some ownership is complex, though the characters are in the public domain: The #Frankenstein monster, mummies, #Dracula, mobsters, psychopaths, and even cave girls. Hammer is also extending the brand with a publishing imprint with Random House, a streaming platform and social-media presence.'



'Horror films made worldwide currently gross as much as $1 billion annually. Last year such movies had a 7.5% market share and took some $900 million, according to The Numbers.com. The chief executive of Hammer, Simon Oakes, is optimistic that the company is in a unique position to capture a significant market share.'


'Oakes had worked for John Malone’s Liberty Global for many years and was looking at different film channel ideas. #Horror was an obvious area, and Oakes loved Hammer: “I realised it was one of the very rare brands in the media industry which is in the vernacular: You refer to a thing as ‘like a Hammer film.’ It has global potential like no other.” In 2007 he helped resuscitate the company with private-equity money, taking control of the library, archive, brand and name.


'The comeback breakthrough was Hammer’s first feature-length ghost story, #TheWomanInBlack, in 2012:“It was synchronicity, because it’s a famous novel and play. Jane Goldman came on board to write the screenplay. I took a big risk by casting #DanielRadcliffe, who was finishing the Potter series. It proved lucky. Our key demographic is 16 to 30 years old. It became the most successful British horror film of all time.”

'Hammer's latest is #TheLodge which had its world premiere at the #SundanceFilmFestival in January. It is now scheduled to be released in February 2020 by Neon.'

Wednesday 9 January 2019

PCAS COMES TO INSTAGRAM AND THE TUESDAY TOUGHY CONNECTIONS!


COMING TO THE END of this '27 tests to see if anybody listening?' #PCAS series...THIS WEEKS Cushing Tuesday Toughy, shouldn't be too tough for some of you! Feel free to post your comment / suggestion / answer in thread at the FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE, where you will also find the #ANSWER to last weeks puzzler 😉 Cleaners huh?




SNAP! Requested and relaunched today . . and waiting for you! Your #PeterCushing Appreciation Society is now on #INSTAGRAM. Come help put PC on the INSTA MAP! Regular postings often featuring #extras exclusive to the account! Come say hi and join us HERE!

Sunday 18 February 2018

CHRISTOPHER LEE TALKS BAND ON THE RUN PHOTO SESSION AND DARK PLACES FULL MOVIE!



#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY! A short video of Christopher Lee talking about the shooting of the iconic photograph that appears on the cover of the WINGS album, BAND ON THE RUN with footage from the photo session . . .





#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAYS! There is MORE than death, waiting for you in DARK PLACES . . so the promo strap line said . . .If this is a new title to you or you have never watched it before, do yourself a favor ...and DON'T go looking for details before you watch it! DARK PLACES was one of the last 1970's Christopher Lee fantasy genre titles to make it to the domestic market. With a great Brit cast, old dark house, one of Hammer film directors and yet made somewhat, in the Amicus style . . so, avoid the spoilers and give-away pics scattered over the net, and settle back to watch, a bit of a treat!




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 #petercushing #christopherlee #bandontherun #hammerfilms

Tuesday 16 January 2018

THE TELLER AND THE TALE


'The TELLER and The TALE' as spoken by Peter Cushing in the tribute montage video we post earlier today. Written by a Peter Cushing fan, MARY ANN ROSBERG in 1978. and appears in Peter Cushing autobiography, 'Past Forgetting' . .





REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA   

Thursday 21 December 2017

AGREE WITH OUR SCORING? HORRIBLE DEATHS WEDNESDAY! GIFS!


I JUST LOVE that cutaway shot to Cushing, as poor ol stunt man Jock Easton, blindly stumbles around. ON FIRE, before he falls through the skylight window. It's almost as if Cushing's can not believe, what Hammer has managed to get this poor stunt man to do, for his couple of quid! Peter Cushing as the Baron with Christopher Lee, stunt work by Jock Easton in Hammer films, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) Painful and ungraceful way of exiting. 7 out of 10.



I GUESS after CATWEAZLE, CROWMAN and maybe Herbert Lom's psychiatrist in Peter Sellers PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN, the late and lovely GEOFFREY BAYLDON  will always be remembered for that incredibly frightening laugh while  bumping off ROBERT POWELL, in AMICUS films 'ASYLUM'. (1972) I often wonder while watching this scene . . .did Geoffrey, just DO the laugh, for the very first time, when they shot that scene OR had everyone on set, already heard it, before, while rehearsing...and if they didn't have any clue that Bayldon was going to do that. I would have LOVED to have seen their faces, and heard the silence AFTER Roy Ward Baker called, 'CUT'! A TRULY CREEPY 9 out of ten.


#HORRIRBLEDEATHSWEDNESDAY! Jeepers CREEPERS! Peter Cushing's Herbert Flay and friends, bring about his gruesome end in MADHOUSE (1974) When you consider the grief he put Price's PAUL TOOMBES through, it seems  only right that, Flay should deserve such a terrible fate.  There's that very  nasty bit, in the beginning of this shot, just before the dissolve, where one of the spiders, walks across Cushing's MOUTH! Anything for the good of the scene, that was Peter, I am sure. Picture it, 'Yes, Yes . . ' says Peter, 'Let the chap wander, and over my face if nesscessary.....!' Nibbled, and paralyzed by several Arachnids in a tank. Good show! EIGHT out of TEN.


DAVID OXLEY as the evil Sir HUGO Baskerville, getting set upon by the Hound of Hell, and there by starting the legend, of the giant canine that roamed the moors, just waiting to snag the next toff from the Baskerville clan. I love the detail, of the dripping blood running from the rock, where the slain servant lies. Yup, he was a violent piece of work, and I hate a guy, who can't handle his booze. He certainly, deserved worse. Mangled like a dog's favorite rubber chewie bone. SIX out of TEN



REMEMBER! IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA

Monday 6 November 2017

MOMENTS OF TERROR: TRAUMA OF THE GUILLOTINE



#MOMENTSOFTERRORMONDAY: Today moment of terror comes from Hammer's Frankenstein Created Woman (1967). Here Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) & Doctor Hertz (Thorley Walters) take Christina (Susan Denberg) to the place of Hans & his fathers execution to see if triggers any trauma memories!










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Tuesday 3 October 2017

A ONE WAY TICKET TO HOLLYWOOD : PETER CUSHING : DOCUMENTARY


#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: ! Just uploaded to our PCAS YouTub.e A treat for you today! The complete documentary of 'Peter Cushing: A One Way ticket To Hollywood' Lots of anecdotes, tales and a few startling revelations too... ENJOY!





IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA  
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