NEWS: AMICUS FILMS GEM COMES TO BLU RAY! MOMENTS OF TERROR CLIP TOO!

NEWS! SCREAM FACTORY have just announced the release of the arrival of THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD of BLU RAY. It's a FIRST. DUE IN MAY 2018. Here are are the details from SCREAM FACTORY: Region A Release date May 8th 2018. Newly Remastered Extras are in progress and will be announced at a later date.

#MOMENTOFTERRORMONDAY! This weeks clip, is a REAL TREAT! From 'The House Of The Long Shadows' which for the FIRST TIME featured all FOUR of our favorite actors in ONE MOVIE! Personally, I LOVE this scene. ATTICS in horror films are always a NO GO area, and in this case...it's no exception. Cushing is great in this scene. ENJOY

DON'T MISS THE HUGE feature we posted on PRUDENCE HYMAN who played THE GORGON for Hammer films back in the 60's. Most Hammer fans may think, that was all she did in her career. BUT there was more to this lady, than we ever knew! RARE CLIPS, IMAGES and MORE. YOU can find it : RIGHT HERE!

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FEMME FATLES FRIDAYS! TALENT BRAINS DETERMINATION: THE GIRLS WITH GRIT : GALLERIES AND STORIES

 

THE CONTINUING PCAS WEEKLY SERIES: Our NEXT FOUR FAB FEATURES FOR #CUSHINGSFEMMEFATALESFRIDAY! FOUR EXTENSIVE GALLERIES with RARE IMAGES and CLIPS. FOUR ACTRESSES. FOUR CAREERS. The connection is Peter Cushing and their LIVES and CAREERS far from conventional. #CUSHINGSFEMMEFATALEFRIDAYS! ONLY TO BE FOUND HERE OVER THE NEXT FOUR FRIDAYS!

CLYTIE JESSOP: MEAT, ART AND FILM: A LIFE IN THREE ACTS . . .

VALERIE GAUNT: THE ACTRESS AT START OF HAMMER FILMS GLAMOUR  WHO SHOCKED AUDIENCES AND THEN VANISHED!

YVONNE MONLAUR: THE LITTLE OF CINEMA PART TWO

CATCH UP WITH OUR RECENT #CUSHINGFEMMEFATALE 
GALLERIES AND FEATURES! 

THE ONE AND ONLY : INGRID PITT

DALEKS AND VAMPIRE GIRLS: JENNIE LINDEN



THE GIRL THEY CALL EVIE! YVONNE ROMAIN 

THE LITTLE BIRD! PART ONE OF YVONNE MONLAUR :  HERE!

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DIRECTOR PETER DUFFELL DIES AGED 95

VERY SAD to hear that director Peter Duffell has died. Duffell worked with Peter Cushing on amicus films, 'The House That Dripped Blood' (1971) it was a title Duffell hated, because there is no blood in the movie! 

In 2011, he published his entertaining autobiography, Playing Piano in a Brothel: Memoirs of a Film Director, in the preface of which Christopher Lee described him as “the most underrated director we have had in Britain for a very long time”.

Duffell proved that he was a dab hand at the horror genre, brilliantly using all the elements of the macabre – creepy sound, striking camera angles, a skillful buildup of tension, black humour and performances just the right side of ham by a cast that included Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott and Jon Pertwee. Peter Duffell was born 10th December 1922, he was 95.

Director Peter Duffell and Peter Cushing on location during the shooting of 'The House That Dripped Blood' (1971)

 

MORE ON Peter Duffell and 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' HERE!  

AND IN THIS FEATURE ABOVE : HERE! 

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REMEMBERING DIRECTOR ROY WARD BAKER

REMEMBERING TODAY.. the birthday of director Roy Ward Baker, whose work with Peter Cushing includes 'Asylum', 'And Now, The Screaming Starts!'. 'The Vampire Lovers' with Amicus films. 'The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires for Hammer films and 'The Masks of Death' with Peter Cushing for Tyburn films. Starting as a tea boy at the Gainsborough Studios in London in 1934, raising to the role of assistant director with Alfred Hitchcock on 'The Lady Vanishes' by 1939, then onto a career as director in Hollywood, working with Marilyn Munroe...Ward Baker had a very full career that covered just about every genre! Today we remember his birthday and the contribution to not only Peter Cushing's career, but the the world of cinema...

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN REMEMBRANCE OF INGRID PITT . .

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY! Today, had she lived.. would have been Ingrid Pitt's 80th birthday. Any regular visitor here will already know, how highly we valued her friendship to our society, her skill as an actress and as a beautiful person who touched everyone's heart who ever met her. We spent last weekend, celebrating her life and career...today, we mark her birthday and make a little space, to share how much we still miss her . . . Happy Birthday, Ingrid . . .

IN CASE YOU MAY have missed them, here are the links to last weekend's features and galleries on INGRID: HERE  AND HERE

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THE ONE AND ONLY : #CUSHINGSFEMMEFATALESFRIDAY!

BEST KNOWN  as Hammer Films' most seductive female vampire of the early 1970s, the Polish-born Pitt possessed dark, alluring features and a sexy figure that made her just right for Gothic horror! Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov) survived World War II and became a well-known actress on the East Berlin stage, however, she did not appear on screen until well into her twenties. She appeared in several minor roles in Spanish films in the mid 1960s, mostly uncredited, before landing the supporting role of undercover agent "Heidi", assisting Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton defeat the Third Reich in Where Eagles Dare (1968).

HER EXOTIC looks and eastern European accent came to the notice of Hammer executives who cast Pitt as vampiress "Mircalla" in the sensual horror thriller The Vampire Lovers (1970). The film was a box office success with its blend of horror and sexual overtones, and Pitt was a beautiful, yet ferocious bloodsucker. Next up, Pitt was cast by Amicus Productions as another gorgeous vampire in the episode entitled "The Cloak" in the superb The House That Dripped Blood (1971). This time, Ingrid played an actress appearing in horror films alongside screen vampire Jon Pertwee, but then later reveals herself to be a real vampire keen on recruiting fresh blood.

INGRID DONNED the fangs for her third vampire film in a row, Countess Dracula (1971) which was loosely based around the legend of the 16th century bloodthirsty Countess Elizabeth Bathory. Whilst not as successful, as the two prior outings, Ingrid Pitt had firmly established herself as one of the key ladies of British horror of the 1970s. She then appeared in the underrated The Wicker Man (1973) as an uncooperative civil servant annoying Edward Woodward in his search for a missing child. Further work followed in The Final Option (1982), as "Elvira" in the adaptation of the John le Carré Cold War thriller Smiley's People (1982), Wild Geese II (1985) and The Asylum (2000).

INGRID made regular appearances at horror conventions and fan gatherings, had penned several books on her horror career, and she relished talking to fans about her on screen vampiric exploits. Ingrid's fan club is known as the "Pitt of Horror"! A much loved and genuine cult figure of modern horror cinema, she died on November 23, 2010, just two days after her 73rd birthday.

PLEASE visit the INGRID PITT FAN CLUB WEBSITE . . .and help keep her memory alive. Just simply CLICK HERE!

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