NEWS: Announced today, is the news of the arrival of TWO Amicus Peter
Cushing films being released as limited editions next month on blu ray SECOND SIGHT FILMS
in the UK for the FIRST TIME on the 29th of JULY 2019! Both THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and ASYLUM contain very neat menu of bonus
extras, some new additions, some passed over from previous releases. but BOTH have exceptional cases artwork by my good mate, Graham Humphreys,
plus both have supplement 40 page booklets on the movies too! Here is
the run down on what each release is offering as a pretty neat package .
. we'll be sharing a review on this release, the print and the contents
very soon, so keep your eyes peeled. Meanwhile, you can place YOUR PRE ORDER HERE!
ASYLUM Limited Edition Contents • Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork
by Graham Humphreys • 40 page booklet with new essays by Allan Bryce,
Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger Special Features • Audio Commentary with
Director Roy Ward Baker and Camera Operator Neil Binney • ‘Two’s a
Company’: 1972 On-set BBC report featuring interviews with Producer
Milton Subotsky, Director Roy Ward Baker, Actors Charlotte Rampling,
James Villiers, Megs Jenkins, Art Director Tony Curtis and Production
Manager Teresa Bolland • Screenwriter David J. Schow on Writer Robert
Bloch • Fiona Subotsky Remembers Milton Subotsky • Inside The Fear
Factory Featurette with Directors Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis and
Producer Max J. Rosenberg • Theatrical Trailer
THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD
Limited Edition Contents
• Rigid Slipcase Featuring New Artwork by Graham Humphreys
• 40 page soft cover book with new essays by Allan Bryce, Jon Towlson and Kat Ellinger
Special Features
• Audio Commentary with Director Peter Duffell and Author Jonathan Rigby
• Audio Commentary with Film Historian and Author Troy Howarth
• Interview with Second Assistant Director Mike Higgins
• A Rated Horror Film - Vintage featurette featuring interviews with Director Peter Duffell and Actors Geoffrey Bayldon, Ingrid Pitt and Chloe Franks
• Theatrical Trailers
• Amicus Radio Spots
• Stills Gallery
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY!
It's THAT time again. You know the rules by now. ONLY send your answers
using the MESSAGE button, no entries on the thread below. Many Many
thanks to Indicator and GOOD LUCK to everyone, this BOX SET is a
smasher! GOOD LUCK!
Release date: 19 February 2018 Limited Blu-ray Edition (World premieres on Blu-ray)
HAMMER VOLUME TWO: CRIMINAL INTENT
: THE SNORKEL (Guy Green, 1958)
NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (Cyril Frankel, 1960) : THE FULL TREATMENT (Val Guest, 1960)
: CASH ON DEMAND (Quentin Lawrence, 1961)
Release date: 19 February 2018
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World premieres on Blu-ray)
Four classic thrillers from the vaults of Hammer Films released on
Blu-ray for the very first time, including premiere presentations of the
complete, uncensored UK theatrical release versions of Val Guest’s The Full Treatment and Cyril Frankel’s Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
and a host of new and exclusive extra features. This stunning Limited
Blu-ray Edition Box Set from Indicator is strictly limited to 6,000
numbered units.
INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• HD restorations of all four films
• Original Mono audio
• New title-specific documentaries exploring aspects of each film
• Audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains on The Snorkel •The Snorkel original script ending: reconstruction of the finale of Jimmy's Sangster's screenplay
• Two presentations of Never Take Sweets from a Stranger: with the original UK titles; and with the alternative US Never Take Candy from a Stranger titles
•Never Take Sweets from a Stranger introduction by actor and filmmaker Matthew Holness
• Two presentations of The Full Treatment: the uncensored UK theatrical cut; and the censored US version with alternative Stop Me Before I Kill! titles
• Audio commentary with film historians Jonathan Rigby and David Miller on Cash on Demand • New and exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, including actors Janina Faye (Never Take Sweets from a Stranger) and Lois Daine (Cash on Demand), props master Peter Allchorne (The Snorkel) and second assistant director Hugh Harlow (The Snorkel)
• Appreciations of composers Elisabeth Lutyens (Never Take Sweets from a Stranger) and Francis Chagrin (The Snorkel) by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde •Hammer’s Women: Betta St John (2018): Diabolique magazine’s editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger offers an appreciation of the American actress, singer and dancer
• Hammer’s Women: Gwen Watford (2018): British cinema expert
Dr Laura Mayne explores the life and career of the prolific English
film, stage and television actress
•Hammer’s Women: Diane Cilento (2018): Dr Melanie Williams, author of Female Stars of British Cinema, explores the life and career of the Australian theatre and film actress and author
•Hammer’s Women: Lois Daine (2018): critic and author Becky Booth on the popular English film and television actress
• Archival documentaries, interviews and featurettes
• Original trailers
• Image galleries: extensive promotional and on-set photography, poster art and marketing materials
• Exclusive booklets for each film, with new essays by Kat Ellinger,
Julian Upton and Kim Newman, archival interview materials, contemporary
reviews, and full film credits
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• World Blu-ray premieres of all four films
• Limited Edition Box Set of 6,000 numbered copies.
TODAY
WE REMEMBER Robert Quarry, a great actor best known for his roles in a
number of horror films in the 70’s such as 'Count Yorga Vampire' (1970)
and its sequel 'The Return Of Count Yorga' (1971) , 'Dr. Philbes Rises
Again' (1973) and 'Madhouse' (1974) with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price
. . Quarry was also featured in guest spots on such TV shows as "Studio
57," "The Lone Ranger," "Hallmark Hall
of Fame," "Mike Hammer," "The Fugitive," "Perry Mason," "Ironside,"
"Cannon," "The Rockford Files," and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."
OUTSIDE OF HIS WORK in movies and television, Robert also had a highly
distinguished stage career. Quarry acted in Broadway productions of "As
You Like It," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Richard III," and "Gramercy
Ghost." He acted alongside Cloris Leachman in "Design for Living" at the
Stage Society in Los Angeles and in 1966 went on tour with a traveling
roadshow production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
HE REGULARLY studied his craft at the Actors Lab in Hollywood. Blessed with an IQ of
168, Quarry was a Life master at bridge. In addition, Robert studied
cooking at the Cardon Bleu School in Manhattan and was the author of the
best-selling cookbook "Wonderfully Simple Recipes for Simply Wonderful
Food." Robert Quarry died at age 83 on February 20, 2009 in Woodland
Hills, California.
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wonderful and the bizarre... 'The Lesser Seen Roles of Peter Cushing',
starting this Thursday with the 1967 film, SOME MY LIVE.... here and at
our PCAS You Tube Channel, with a supplement feature and stills and
media gallery posted at the PCAS website. We'll have fun!
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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
It's not released until September 21, 2015..but here's our first proper
look at the Odeon Entertainment Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Steel Book Blu ray packaging. Looks very nice indeed. With it's LIMITED
numbered edition release of 4,000, with specially commissioned artwork
by Graham Humphreys, the extras Include a brand new making of Dr Terror
documentary by Nucleus Films and a recently filmed appreciation of the
life and career of the late Sir Christopher Lee. It's available for PRE
ORDER now….
