WORLD PREMIER OF HAMMER FRANKENSTEIN AND DRACULA SCORES RELEASED!

NEWS: AS REPORTED here at PCASUK in MAY this year, TADLOW MUSIC had been very busy recording the COMPLETE musical scores of BOTH Hammer films 'The Curse of Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' as written by James Bernard. BELOW is a link to not only place your easily place your order, but also sample some of the score, all Newly Recorded in Stunning and Dynamic Digital Sound! The scores are performed by the Acclaimed and Award-Winning City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Nic Raine with some new score and Bernard’s own Orchestrations Reconstructed by Leigh Phillips . Each disc is accompanied by a 20-Page Full-Colour Booklet with Informative Sleeve Notes by Hammer Film Music Expert David Huckvale – plus numerous original film stills and posters. Both discs sound amazing! The RELEASE Date for both recordings is OCT 25th 2019….just in time for Halloween !

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO SAMPLES and place YOUR order :HERE!

THE MONSTER AT MACY'S THANKS GIVING PARADE

IF YOU HAVE EVER WONDERED just how popular, a certain Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee film had become in the USA, after it's release in 1957. Just WHO is that inflatable, floating down the street at the Macy's Thanks Giving Parade.... ?

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: COLOURISED GUESTS FROM HAMMER BRIDES PREMIER

#TOOLCOOLTUESDAY: Here is a colourized image from premiere 1960’s 'The Brides of Dracula', featuring Yvonne Monlaur and of course Peter Cushing. 'Brides', is one of those films that in my very humble opinion…manages to outdo the original in almost every way. Ok I will conceit that perhaps during the latter half of the film the script isn’t the strongest, but the opening sequences at Castle Meinster easily stand among the best of any Hammer Horror and again…perhaps somewhat controversially, far outdo those in the earlier picture. Cushing once again gets to play more of the action hero and the final sequences in the barn are incredibly thrilling, including the famous ‘branding’ sequence. David Peel makes a refreshing substitute for Christopher Lee and it’s nice to see the Hammer team taking a chance on a very different look for this vampire. Of course Yvonne Monlaur steals a great deal of the screen, being equally glamorous and, un-like a lot of early Hammer heroines, convincingly brave as she becomes determined to free the Baron. It’s a shame she only did one more picture for Hammer, 1961’s 'The Terror of the Tongs' though horror fans can also catch her in 1960’s 'Circus of Horrors' alongside another Hammer star, Anton Differing. Monlaur passed away earlier this year, it’s a tribute to her performance that 'The Brides of Dracula' succeeds at being as powerful as it is. - Callum McKelvie (pcas)

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THE BRIDES OF DRACULA PREMIER : GOLDEN VAMP GOOF AND BEAST MUST DIE!

#GETHECUSHIONSUNDAY! Peter Cushing and Yvonne Monlaur rolled up at the West End Rank Cinema, London for the premier night of #hammerfilms 'The Brides of Dracula' on July 7th 1960 . . .looks like Yvonne had wondered off for a popcorn or hotdog, leaving Peter at the mercy of these two ladies from the Rank Organisation, in fancy dress..at least I HOPE they are in fancy dress....

PETER CUSHING AND YVONNE MONLAUR together at the #bridesofdracula premier night . . .with the Vampire Girls just...off..camera...

TWO GREAT PUBLICITY shots of Peter Cushing from Hammer films, 'THE BRIDES OF DRACULA' (1960) One in character as #VANHELSING and the other, as himself!

WE HAVE compiled the SIX photographs that were taken exclusively on set of #HAMMERFILMS 'The Brides of Dracula' for the PICTURE SHOW magazine feature, and reassembled them, in this banner, to give some idea of how, they could have looked . . 

#GETTHECUSHIONSUNDAY! CALLUM McKELVIE'S feature this week is on the Amicus Cushing 'WHO-DONE-IT'.... 'The Beast Must Die'! Link below... Many still talk about the WEREWOLF BREAK, an ingenious little gimmick, which gave you a minute to guess the TRUE identity of the werewolf in the cast. Even though I have watched this movie about half a dozen times...I STILL can't ever remember when watching, WHO it turns out to be. DON'T REVEAL PLEASE! Cast your mind back, to when you first saw the film...HONESTLY...DID you SUCCESSFULLY GUESS who the werewolf was??? Here's the link to great memories, photographs and stuff on this most unusual of Amicus Horror films . .

 FEATURE HERE:HERE! 

 

 

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EXTRA FEATURES FOR PREMIER INDICATOR RELEASE OF TORTURE GARDEN

NEWS: INDICATOR HAS A BUSY COUPLE OF WEEKS coming up with several excellent Cushing Amicus and Hammer titles being released. Amicus TORTURE GARDEN gets a premier release in the UK on OCTOBER 23rd 2017, starring Peter Cushng, Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Michael Ripper..and many more.... BUT JUST LOOK at these extras:

• High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• World premiere Blu-ray presentation of the original theatrical cut (93 mins)
• Alternative presentation of the extended TV cut (100 mins);
• The Guardian Interview with Freddie Francis (1995, 80 mins): the great cinematographer and director in conversation with journalist Alan Jones recorded at the National Film Theatre, London
• Ramsey Campbell on Robert Bloch (2017);
• Fiona Subotsky on Milton Subotsky and Amicus (2017);
• Production Supervisor Ted Wallis on making the film (2017);
• Kim Newman on ‘Torture Garden’ (2017): new appreciation by the author and genre-film expert
• Original theatrical trailer
• Extensive image galleries: on-set photography and promotional material
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 36-page booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne, an overview of Amicus Productions, and extracts from the original press kit, advertising and promotion guide
• UK premiere on Blu-ray

PCAS will also launching a COMPETITION to WIN copies of Indicators TORTURE GARDEN Blu Ray release... So look out for details 😉 - Marcus

ON THE EVE OF TARKIN'S RETURN: TARKIN GIFS

#GIMMETHEGIF: AND SO ON THE EVE of the opening of #ROGUEONE we count down the hours and share some requested GIFS of Peter Cushing from 'STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE' . . .

FOR ROSA STRICKLAND #ROGUEONE ...#PeterCushing's Tarkin as calm and as scheming as ever. All those years of playing Baron Frankenstein obviously prepared him for such an icy role...

FOR DEBRA KENDRICK 

FOR PAUL HUGHES

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ARE YOU READY TO WELCOME THE DARKSIDE ?. . .THE RETURN OF TARKIN

WE'VE JUST CHANGED our banner at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, just in time for the arrival of #ROGUEONE : A Star Wars Story on the 15th DECEMBER in the UK and 16th DECEMBER in the USA. It seems everyone's lips are still sealed, if and how Peter Cushing appears in the film. However, if you have the time and inclination to spend digging around the net, all the pointers are there, that PC is indeed, in the film. In the meantime, we sit and wait, to see if all hunches are correct.

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