GIF GALLERY WEDNESDAY IS GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY

SO HERE WE ARE... with our SECOND #GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY! Keep those requests a-comingand we will do our best to, find that clip and make that gif!  What makes a great gif? Here are two of the things to consider when choosing your gif, the best gifs are a short section of film with no dialogue...remember a gif plays without any audio. Maybe some thing that has high drama or action... a gif can be only 5 to 12 seconds long...

GIFS below are from 'Flesh and the fiends', for Bella Podtetenieff. 'Horror Express'  for Tom Boulton and 'Legend of the Werewolf' for Lexi Conroy. 

#TBT WAXING ON LOVE AND LOSS IN 1970

#‎TBT‬ ON REFLECTION it's a miracle that Peter Cushing appeared in 'The House That Dripped Blood' at all! Shooting began at Shepperton studio in the Summer of 1970. At the time, Peter's late wife Helen, was very ill and unusual for Cushing he asked to be released from his contract or if consideration could be given to the amount of time he would spend on set. The producers would not agree to this, so Cushing had to leave the shoot each day and speed back to his home in Whitstable, and then return early the following morning, bright and fresh ready to work.

 

DESPITE THESE PRESSURES, Cushing performance as actor Philip Grayson, is a interesting one. Playing a peg in a love triangle, with a wax figure...some of the shots in the film of Cushing walking lonely along river banks and streets, you can't help wondering what was really on his mind, as these were some of the last days he would spend with Helen... at her bedside or not.... #throwbackthursday

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PERTWEE AND THE CLOAK THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD

A rare publicity portrait of JON PERTWEE as Paul Henderson in the fourth story "The Cloak", from Amicus / AIP 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' (1971)

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JON PERTWEE AND INGRID PITT AT THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD : RARE PHOTOGRAPHS

Here's TWO great promotion photographs just posted as requests over at our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page. The requests from Christopher Stephenson are the first in our REQUEST SUNDAY weekly feature, where we invite our friends and followers to request photographs and memorabilia from their favourite Peter Cushing film, tv show, theatre production. It gives us the opportunity to share some of the lesser seen items from the PCASUK archives and collection. Now in our 60th year as a 'fan club', we have amassed a collection of Peter Cushing material that is often called on by television, radio, dvd and blu ray distributors, for vintage Peter Cushing photographs, media and printed materials. Over the next 12 months, we'll be hosting several events at this website and our other PCASUK internet outlets.

There are more rare photographs in our feature on ''THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' elsewhere on this website.

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INGRID PITT BRINGS US A THROWBACKTHURSDAY WITH BITE!

She was an actress that appeared in a handful of genre films, but she certainly made her mark! In 1970, she gave us her Marcilla / Carmilla / Mircalla Karnstein in Hammer films, THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, the following year she starred in another Hammer film, COUNTESS DRACULA.

Hot on the trail of those two hits, came yet another 'vampire', even though it was a bite size role in one of the stories in the portmanteau feature, 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' for Amicus films, with Peter Cushing and Jon Pertwee.

In 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' she wrapped up her part quite nicely, with a plot twist and flew across the screen and once again, into our hearts....

BONHAMS AUCTIONS CUSHING SMOKING JACKET : HOMES AND ANTIQUES

Object lesson: Peter Cushing's smoking jacket: You may remember we've been following this one for the past few weeks? The sale of the original and vintage smoking jacket as worn by Peter Cushing in the film, The House That Dripped Blood in 1971. Well, HOMES AND ANTIQUES magazine and website have jumped on the story, we supplied some background info to Bonhams about the jacket and some photographic evidence... HOMES and ANTIQUES have published a feature and been jolly nice in giving PCAS a credit too. You'll find the feature RIGHT HERE 

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALICE HANCOCK AND LUKE HONEY!

Now with over 19,000 followers world wide on our facebook fan page (See Banner Above)  and here our very active website (petercushing.org) The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society was founded on Peter Cushing's request, by Gladys Fletcher in 1956. The club then became a newsletter and audio cassette society, and was then managed by Marcus Brooks. For several years it ticked along, until the arrival of the internet and our petercushing.org website and it's supplement fan page on facebook. We welcome new followers, requests, questions and support the publishing of artwork, reviews and features from anyone who would like to submit their work to the sites. This is YOUR site, you drive it's posts, dedications, images and features. A very warm welcome to you! Marcus Brooks (admin)

UPDATE: CUSHINGS AMICUS FILM SMOKING JACKET PART OF BONHAMS AUCTION

NEWS UPDATE: Peter Cushing's smoking jacket from his 1971 film ,The House That Dripped Blood has now been placed in the forthcoming Bonhams Knightsbridge auction of Entertainment Memorabilia to be held in June, with a very enticing estimate of £1000-1500. It comes complete with the original Phillips 1996 Peter Cushing auction catalogue, certificate from the sale, original lot label (lot 13). Genuine costume and prop items from Cushing's Amicus films are very rarely seen for sale these days. The price, is a give away for anyone considering entering the bidding.

Should anyone out there wish to view the smoking jacket in advance of the auction or have early information on the catalogue description, your best contact is Natalie Downing at Bonhams who you can call on 0207 3933844 or email entertainment@bonhams.com

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GEOFFREY BAYLDON

Please join us in wishing the amazing Geoffrey Bayldon, a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY today! At 91 years young, this mans film and tv credits go way back to Hammer films first Dracula with Peter Cushing, some of Amicus films finest like 'Asylum', 'Tales from the Crypt', 'The House that Dripped Blood', Hammer's 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed', 'The Risk' / 'Suspect with Cushing in 1969, his tv series 'Catweazle'. He appeared with Jon Pertwee in 'Worzel Gummidge as The Crowman from 1979 until 1981, the BBC's Dr Who in 79 and 'The Avengers tv series in the 60's. One of the kindest actors and a gentlemen to boot. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEOFFREY BAYLDON!

REMEMBERING INGRID PITT BORN TODAY 21ST NOVEMBER 1937

IF WALLS COULD TALK! THE AMICUS FILMS OF PETER CUSHING: PART THREE

When Cushing, Lee and Subotsky reunited for The House That Dripped Blood (1970), it was in the more familiar context of the horror anthology. The script was again penned by Robert Bloch and it offered an uncommonly consistent array of stories linked together by an interesting mystery device. A skeptical police inspector (John Bennett) is looking into the disappearance of horror star Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee), whose last known residence was the creepy house of the title.

In the course of his investigation, he is told of some other bizarre occurrences that unfolded in and around that house: horror novelist Charles Hillyer (Denholm Elliott) is driven to madness when it appears that his “fictitious” strangler, Dominick (Tom Addams), has taken on a life of his own; retired stock broker Philip (Cushing) becomes obsessed with the figure of Salome at a nearby wax museum; chilly widower John Reid (Lee) dishes out cruel punishments to his little girl, Jane (Chloe Franks), but it could be that it’s the little girl who is really in charge; and lastly, we see how Paul Henderson may have met his fate while appearing in a low budget horror film at nearby Shepperton Studios.

Director Peter Duffel made his feature debut with this film and he did a magnificent job of it: the individual stories are well paced and executed, while the linking segments keep the suspense factor high until the very end.  Unlike most anthologies, there really is no weak link, though many viewers complain that the Cushing segment doesn’t quite fit the overall theme of the picture; there’s some truth to this, but as an exercise in melancholy mood, it’s hard to fault.

The entire cast is in good form: Cushing’s off-screen suffering over the declining health of his beloved wife, Helen, manifests itself in his character’s sense of loss and regret, Lee is splendid as the aloof father who isn’t quite what he appears to be, Elliott is his usual brilliant and neurotic self as the horror novelist on the verge of a breakdown and Pertwee is a delight as the hammy horror star.

Not surprisingly, Vincent Price was originally offered the latter’s role, but AIP wasn’t involved in the financing and refused to allow their top horror star to go and appear in a film for the “competition.”  Price was reportedly furious over this and dragged his displeasure with him on to the set of his next AIP assignment, Gordon Hessler’s stylish but confused occult thriller The Cry of the Banshee (1970).

 

Duffel was appalled by the film’s brazenly exploitative title, but co-producer Max J. Rosenberg correctly maintained that it would pack audiences in.  The end result was another hit for the company; it arguably remains their finest anthology and one of the great, albeit unsung, examples of subtle, low key horror.

The Amicus Films Of Peter Cushing Is written by Troy Howarth
with artwork and images by Marcus Brooks

Part Four Coming Soon: I, Monster.