WIN SCREAM FACTORY COLLECTORS EDITION OF 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN' TODAY!

THE LATEST PCASUK COMPETITION has just been launched at the You may want to nip along there and maybe try your luck at bagging one of a PAIR of PRIZES : A copy of the SCREAM FACTORY Collectors Edition of Peter Cushing's 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN'! As ever, our competition is OPEN to everyone, whoever, wherever you are! GOOD LUCK EVERYONE and be sure to enter and send your entry BEFORE FRIDAY AUGUST 2ND 2019!

ABOVE: ABOVE OUR PCASUK  full FEATURE REVIEW of the SCREAM FACTORY release, including GALLERY SPEC, EXTRAS and CAPTURES! CLICK HERE!
 

SCREAM FACTORY 'FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN' BLU RAY COLLECTORS EDITION: EXTRAS AND BONUS MATERIAL:

NEW 2K Scan From The Original Film Elements
NEW Audio Commentary With Author/Film Historian Steve Haberman And Filmmaker/Film Historian Constantine Nasr
NEW Interview With Actor Robert Morris
NEW Interview With Camera Assistant/Clapper Loader Eddie Collins And 2nd Assistant Director Joe Marks
 

Audio Commentary By Actors Derek Fowlds, Robert Morris, And Film Historian Jonathan Rigby
World Of Hammer Episode The Curse Of Frankenstein
World Of Hammer Episode Hammer Stars: Peter Cushing
Hammer Glamour Featurette
Theatrical Trailers
TV Spots
Radio Spots
Still Galleries – Movie Stills, Posters, And Lobby Cards

ORDER YOUR OWN COPY HERE: CLICK HERE!

ABOVE: The Girl From Pomerania : The PCASUK feature and gallery on the life and career of SUSAN DENBERG : CLICK HERE!

ABOVE AND BELOW: Frankenstein Created Woman is one of the few Peter Cushing films, to have been included in the weekly #MONSTERMONDAY role call! . .  SHOCKING! 😲😉😃 

TERENCE FISHER REMEMBERED TODAY

REMEMBERING TERENCE FISHER TODAY 😊 If you enjoy any of the better Hammer films of the 1950's and 60's . . this is the point, you doff your cap 😉 There can be few directors who worked for Hammer films, who did so much to develop that Hammer-in-house style. Terence Fisher, WAS Hammer. Along with Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and the players who helped under pin the rich vision of fairy-tale come Gothic nightmare style. Even when the 'monsters' were 'shaky' the script, with more holes than a Swiss cheese... the look, pace and world beautifully styled by Fisher, just sat so well. The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 was the first, it also lit the rocket that would spin Peter Cushing into a new and long lasting career within the fantasy genre and Christopher Lee, on scraping off the make up and anonymity as 'the monster', would soon don a cloak and a feral shocking performance as Dracula, that set him on path, for more Fisher, Cushing Hammer classics to come. The Mummy, The Gorgon, and The Hound of the Baskervilles, still stand, as maybe the best of Terence Fisher and Hammer. 

TERENCE FISHER was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. Fisher although aware of the terrifying elements of his Hammer films, would only smile when questioned about their shock factor, and answer...'I make wicked fairy tales...!' Fisher also along with Lee and Cushing, had a wicked sense of humor, hints of which can often been seen on the screen. Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right . . .

'BACK IN MARCH 1980, I was just 19, living in Kent and scuffling back and forth to London, jobbing in very basic model and extra work, desperately earning my actors 'Equity Card'. With PCAS has my hobby, I was living in digs, that belonged to a family who were organizing a fantasy convention in London just a few weeks away. They were very kind people and good friends of Terence Fisher's, who had now retired, and was sadly, not in very good health. But he had agreed to attend the convention. While sitting in the kitchen one evening, I was star struck to hear, they were chatting with Fisher on the telephone. I had spent the last two days laughingly trying to get myself an agent in London, the shambolic details they shared with Fisher. Laughing into my coffee I shouted across the room, 'Ask him if he knows any charitable, kind and helpful agents!'. There was a pause and a howl of laughter. I asked, what was his answer? 'Oh, you'll never find one of them!' was his reply . . and he is still laughing down the phone!' 🤣🤣 Sadly, Fisher passed in June. I did get my Equity card, thanks to sponsors, actor Michael Ripper and Make up artist, Roy Ashton... who strangely enough, held a membership of the Equity Union, for many years! So, I sadly never got to meet Terence Fisher... but I did get to make him laugh 😀😊' Marcus Brooks

PETER CUSHING AND THE DIRECTORS: PART ONE OF FOUR: HERE!

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY! RETURNS FOR JUST ONE MONTH!

The PCASUK #FrankensteinFriday comes back for a month THIS Friday, I have some interesting photographs, on set and behind the scenes of 'The Evil of Frankenstein' I want to share with you, some great bits and pieces on Peter playing the Baron... plus there are TWO Hammer Frankenstein Competitions, which I think you will enjoy too! It all starts this Friday for just a month, don't miss it 😉 - Marcus

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HAPPY EARTH DAY 2018 AND THE CALLUM MCKELVIE PROMO FOR NEXT WEEKS DOUBLE BILL!

#HAPPYEARTHDAY 2018! NOT ONLY is it EARTH AWARENESS DAY, but it's also a holiday for CALLUM MCKELVIE who usual gives us his latest PETER CUSHING themed feature on Sunday's! BUT I have posted some banner and links to previous articles from Callum and a little PEEP on what to expect form him, when he is all refreshed and bouncing NEXT SUNDAY! 

CATCH THIS FEATURE RIGHT HERE! 

THE SUNDAY REVIEW ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE FEATURE FILM IS

 RIGHT HERE complete with rare stills gallery!

ON THE PLATFORM HERE! 

READ CALLUM MCKELVIE'S FEATURE and watch HORROR EXPRESS

DOUBLE BILL ON TENDRE DRACULA AND INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED 

 WITH FULL UPLOADS OF THE MOVIES HERE! 

THE TOP FIVE NON PETER CUSHING FILMS

 WITH GALLERY GIFS AND CLIPS HERE!

BOTH HAMMER FRANKENSTEIN CLASSICS WITH GALLERIES OF 

STILLS AND MORE : CLICK HERE! 

THE SKULL AND THE CREEPING FLESH : GIFS STILLS 

AND CALLUM'S FEATURE CREEP HERE!

TWO GREAT FEATURES LOADED UP WITH XTRAS all part of CALLUM's  PASSION for Doctor Who and the TWO CUSHING 'DR WHO' DALEK FEATURE FILMS, RIGHT HERE AND HERE! 

A PEEP AT NEXT WEEKS FEATURE! JOIN US DO!

CHRISTOPHER LEE SATURDAY EUNICE HAS A BIRTHDAY AND LEE HAS A TALL TERRIBLE TALE!

TODAY WE WISH a happy birthday to the lovely Eunice Gayson. Best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No 1963 and From Russia with Love 1963). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead. BELOW we have great part of the series that we produced with BRUCE G HALLENBECK on the actresses tht appeared with PETER CUSHING in the HAMMER FILMS Frankenstein series of film, of which EUNICE was indeed one . .

EUNICE GAYSON WOMEN IN GOTHIC : PART TWO : HERE!

AN INTERVIEW feature we made with CHRISTOPHER LEE a while ago, some of you have emailed about, having problems finding, to repost! So, for your entertainment (!!) here it is again today on CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY!  Enjoy!

FREE HAMMER CONTACT SHEETS : BATES AND LEE TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA AND A BIRTHDAY!

 

#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY! It's a great shame, that Ralph Bates lost his opportunity to play DRACULA. How do you think he would have played it??? #dracula #casting #hammerfilms #pulltheplug #vampires

FREE CONTACT SHEETS FROM HAMMER FILMS : HAMMER FILMS TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA : FEATURING LINDA HAYDEN, ANTHONY HIGGINS  . . . .

'I’VE SEEN THE LIKES TONIGHT that mortal eyes shouldn’t look at!’… say that line of dialogue and any Hammer film fan worth his or her salt, quick as a flash will reply, ‘Michael Ripper, as the poacher in 'The Mummy!’.. And it is Michael Ripper who we remember today on the day his birth, 27th January 1913. Ripper appeared in many productions for Hammer, seven with Peter Cushing, nine with Christopher Lee.  . . .

INN KEEPERS, coachmen, police officers, Ripper an accomplished stage and film actor it could be argued is as much part of the Hammer family as Cushing, Lee, Fisher and Francis. Christopher Lee once announced to a packed convention in Baltimore, with Ripper standing at his side.. 'This man IS Hammer!’ And for many of us, he always will be . . .

IF SOMETHING INTERESTING comes my way, I love to be able to share with you! Such is the case of this rarely seen candid photograph of Christopher Lee and Michael Ripper at a signing. The little I have leaned about this occasion, has come from the owner of this photograph, James Murray. 

JAMES WAS WORKING 'on the door' this day at a book shop in London and remembers it well. It was a book signing, attended by Christopher Lee, signing copies of his book, 'Tall, Dark and Gruesome' the Midnight Marquee edition. Being an admirer of Christopher Lee, he brought along his camera and posed for a pic...and managed to capture Michael too! . . .MORE ON THIS STORY: HERE!

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