STEVE CREATED FRANKENSTEIN : ACTOR EDWARD JUDD 'ISLAND OF TERROR' REMEMBERED

STARTING NEXT WEEK we will be returning and rebooting our popular daily themed posts on here our facebook fan page and the official PCASUK website. We'll be dusting off each of the seven themed days with some new additions too! Wednesday will now be offering an opportunity not only for collectors to share images of their Cushing collectable and goodies but, also we are inviting any of you who display at deviant art or otherwise, to share examples of your creations and art work here too 🙂 We are happy to provide links to your galleries and watermark items should you wish 🙂 Here is a sample 🙂 Portrait artist Steve Lilly, shared this with us today and I thought you would love to see his artwork for yourselves! This is a cracking portrait of Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein, from maybe one of your favourites too... 'Frankenstein Created Woman' ? Steve has a web presence with many superb examples of his work there too!

HERE IS A LINK to see more of his talent for yourselves! Thank you Steve for sharing! CLICK HERE FOR STEVE LILLY'S WEBSITE AND GALLERY!

REMEMBERING EDWARD JUDD today, who was born on this day 4th October 1932. Judd achieved his biggest successes with a series of science fiction films 'The Day The Earth Caught Fire' (1961) ,'First Men In The Moon' (1964) and co-starring with Peter Cushing in 'Island Of Terror' (1966) fighting the silicates…..

FULL REVIEW ON 'THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE WITH GALLERY:  CLICK HERE!

FULL REVIEW AND GALLERY OF 'ISLAND OF TERROR' JUST CLICK HERE! 

FULL REVIEW AND STILLS GALLERY: CLICK HERE!

NEWS UPDATE: WHITSTABLE BENCH TO BE RESTORED AND THE BRASS PLAQUE TOO!

A VERY GOOD UPDATE, to the story about the Peter and Helen Cushing Bench at Cushing's View in Whitstable. Also news on the brass plaque and the reason why it went missing. I am SO happy to know, it's disappearance was NOT down to an act of vandalism and theft. These details were printed on the Canterbury Council News site today . . . This is good news, thank you Canterbury City Council!

WORK TO RESTORE Peter Cushing’s memorial bench in Whitstable is about to get underway. The city council has commissioned artist Will Glanfield to carry out the project. He originally made the seat, which is located at Cushing’s View on the seafront behind Keam’s Yard car park, in 1990 and will be restoring it using original Jarrah timber. A few weeks ago, a member of the public contacted the council to say the bench’s plaque had gone missing. The council had begun making arrangements for a replacement when Peter Cushing’s former personal assistant, Joyce Broughton, got in touch to say the original plaque had been handed into Whitstable Museum. The council believes the screws had rusted and the plaque had become loose, prompting a member of the public to remove it and hand it in. And when an officer met Joyce at the bench to collect it, the need for the restoration work to the bench itself became clear.

Peter Cushing on the day of the grand opening of Cushing's View on the sea front at Whitstable, Kent.

THE BENCH WILL BE REMOVED in the next week or so and repairs are expected to take around a month. The bench’s dedication plaque will also be reattached. Chairman of the council’s Community Committee, Cllr Neil Baker, said: “We know how important Peter Cushing’s bench is to the people of Whitstable. The last time it was removed for repairs, there were concerns it had been taken away forever, so we want to be clear this is only temporary and that it will be back in a little while, looking better than ever. “It’s particularly good that we’re using the original artist, Will Glanfield, for this project. He will treat the bench with the tender loving care it deserves and we know he’s going to do a great job.”

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LUCKY TEN WIN CUSHING CLASSIC TALES FROM THE CRYPT COMPETITION

Did YOU enter our TALES FROM THE CRYPT DVD COMPETITION THIS WEEK? If you did, you are no doubt waiting for the answers to the 'Spot The FIVE Differences' in the photograph puzzler? Check out the MISSING ITEMS in the photograph below and IF you spotted all FIVE missing items correctly...YOU could be one of our TEN lucky winners to win, one of our TEN copies of TALES FROM THE CRYPT DVD's!

Well, here are the answers we were looking for : 1: Decorative round plate missing from wall 2. Round BLACK RIMMED plate missing from wall 3. Bobble missing from top of Cushing's hat 4. White leg missing from Mr Punch figure that Cushing is holding and finally...5. Flower design, also missing from the hat of Mr Punch figure.

So Congratulations! Here are our TEN lucky eagle-eyed winners. If you see your name here, please EMAIL US theblackboxclub@gmail.com with a postal address where you would like us to dispatch your prize!

A very very popular competition, proving there are more people who own dvd players than blu ray players..who want to enter our competitions! So, we'll have another Cushing DVD Competition coming up very soon!

Thank you to everyone who entered and had a go! And a HUGE thank you to cinema cult and screenpop who sponsored our competition! 

 CULT CINEMA

SCREENPOP 

MONSTER MONDAY : QUOTABLE CUSHING AND PETER CUSHING SCRAPBOOK COMPETITION

#MonsterMonday : Peter Cushing as Baron Frankenstein, with Christopher Lee as the Creation ...#thecurseoffrankenstein #hammerfilms 1957 Directed by Terence Fisher. A film with a great story, sets, music, cast and some pretty good dialogue too!

#MonsterMonday : Not all of Peter Cushing's Frankenstein's 'monster's' looked like the last thing you would want to meet down a dark alleyway. This one, was quite the opposite. A relatively unknown actresses when she came to the role of Christina Kleeve's in Hammer films 'Frankenstein Created Woman' in 1967, Denberg's eventual beauty is the perfect mask that hides a heart bent on revenge and murder, giving us a the monster, that given the chance based on appearances, we would be quite happily take out to dinner...and a trip to the cinema!

 

Look Out for our 'So You Think You Know : Peter Cushing?' Competition THIS WEEKEND 5th / 6th July 2014! There are THREE COPIES of  Peveril Publishing's THE PETER CUSHING SCRAPBOOK up for grabs!

The Peter Cushing Scrapbook:

Leading fantasy film historians Wayne Kinsey (Hammer Films – the Bray Studios Years, The Elstree Studios Years, A Life in Pictures, the Unsung Heroes and On Location) and Tom Johnson (Hammer Films – an Exhaustive Filmography, Peter Cushing – the Gentle Man of Horror and his 91 Films and The Films of Oliver Reed) come together with Joyce Broughton (Cushing’s secretary and aide for over 35 years) to present the definitive pictorial history to Peter Cushing. A perfectionist in his work and a talented artist in every sense of the word with a great sense of humour and always a boy at heart. The Peter Cushing Scrapbook is a unique pictorial book packed with Cushing memorabilia that showcases his private and professional life:

Watercolor paintings,sketches, bird drawings, Tudor Tea Room Profiles, costume designs, humorous cartoons drwn for his wife, Helen. Painted scarf and jewelry designs, model theatre sets, letters, annotated pages. Notations for photographs written by Peter Cushing, candid photographs. Material from the estate of director, Roy Ward Baker. Film props. An alternative script for Hammer films 'Captain Clegg' and rare material from two unfilmed Hammer film projects to have starred Peter Cushing: Kali - Devil Bride of Dracula and The Savage Jackboot and rare cinema posters...  

HAMMER FILMS: THE MUMMY : TROY HOWARTH FEATURE AND STILLS GALLERY HERE THIS WEEK

'The Mummy is a 1959 British horror film, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. It was released on 25 September 1959. It was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Michael Carreras and Anthony Nelson Keys for Hammer Film Productions.

Though the title suggests Universal Pictures' 1932 film of the same name, the film actually derives its plot and characters entirely from two later Universal films, The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb, with the climax borrowed directly from The Mummy's Ghost. The character name "Joseph Whemple" is the only connection with the 1932 version.'

From Wikipedia,