RARE THE GORGON BEHIND THE SCENES COLOUR PHOTOGRAPH PLUS CUSHING IN OZ!

HERE'S A VERY NEAT colour photograph of Peter Cushing and actress Barbara Shelley during the making of The Gorgon at Bray studios. I purchased the original negative for this publicity photograph back in the late 1970's, it's been posted here once before, but it's a good one.

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WHEN THIS PIC WAS POSTED at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE yesterday someone asked if I wasn't worried about posting such a rare pic, on Facebook... So I explained, I post pics for people to do exactly that, to share. Anything I have, own or is sent to me by good folk out there I share. BUT I also include a bit of promo text on the pic, to share where it has been cleaned and repaired if necessary... here. In the majority of cases these are pics on which, we do not own the copyright, this is a hobby, no money exchanged or made. :) There are authors and collectors out there though, that are under the impression that the little watermark is implying I or we own them... nope. This pic today I do own, hence my name. Happens rarely. If you post something on the net, it's gone, the world owns it today. If anyone wants to repost or share a pic that's wonderful. If you want to take it and take off the watermark, that's not really the game.. but your choice, so many here are posted for the first time, so people who know their stills... know where it has come from and that someone has lifted the watermark. Weird that people would do that, unless they maybe dislike or hate the page 😄😉... or us having fun and a reward for working so hard on the posts for fans and keeping the memory of Peter Cushing alive and relevant. . . who knows???  But, I am sure... some do 😉😊

THE LATEST painting by artist, #DARYLJOYCE 😊 This one is a cracker, you think? 😊 After the not so roaring success of the sequel to #DrWho and the Daleks (1965) film, 'Dalek Invasion Earth 2150 AD' (1966) the planned next #Dalek / Dr Who / #PeterCushing feature film, based on the #BBC tv episode 'The Chase' sadly didn't happen... BUT what a treat it could have been, if it HAD! Congrats to Daryl on another fine piece of work! 😊😉

REPOST : CUSHING IN AUSTRALIA 1977!  The text taken from Cushing's second book Past Forgetting: Memoirs of the Hammer Years published in 1988.

'In western Australia, where I thoroughly enjoyed working with John Izzard of swan television in 1977, I had quite an extraordinary experience with an ostrich, a tobacco addict! It stalked me, its beady eyes watching my every move and each time I lit a cigarette, it shot its neck out (like a chameleons tongue catching some runaway insect) and snatched the fag from my lips!! Perhaps Rod Hull encountered that same bird, and got the idea for his act with emu?'

CHRISTOPHER LEE once said that Peter Cushing had a laugh that could clear a restaurant in 30 seconds flat! And it must be said, if you ever get the chance to catch a clip of Peter laughing, it was a belter!

Photos in panel:
Top Left:#PeterCushing and close, life time friend,Peter Gray.
Next right: Cushing in costume with lead actor Robert Stack on the set of John Paul Jones (1959)
Next Right : With CEO of #Hammerfilms, James Carrreras at the premier of The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957
Middle: Peter and wife #HelenCushing on holiday in #Norwich.
Far Right: Peter and #ChristopherLee, on set at Bray studios during the making of Hammer films, 'The Gorgon' (1965)
 

BEHIND THE SCENES ON HAMMER FILMS 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' a full feature with #contactsheets and press stills! RIGHT HERE!

WINNERS NAMES RELEASED IN PCASUK 'SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA' REMASTERED WARNER BROTHERS COMPETITION

IT'S WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS to our FIVE WINNERS, each bagging a copy of Warner Brothers stunning Remastered blu ray of The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Having seen this film sooo many times on dodgy dvd's and VHS recordings, on this blu ray, it becomes an almost completely different film...one reason is no doubt, because I can SEE everything sooo clearly! And the soundtrack score, is magic! 

AGAIN MANY THANKS, to everyone at Warner Bros who were so generous and helpful...and to everyone, the many, many who entered! I really do wish you could ALL win 🙂 BUT more competitions to come NEXT week, so it's never too late 😉 Just a reminder that Warner's blu ray is now OUT and PROWLING ... and waiting for you to purchase it and SHOCK you at home, with it's amazing remastered quality 🙂 Wanna order or purchase: JUST CLICK HERE!

AS PROMISED ON at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE today, above is a RARE HI RES press office CONTACT  SHEET from 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula' featuring both Peter Cushing as Van Helsing and the rather worrying Professor Julian Keeley, played by the excellent Freddie Jones!  A thank you, to everyone who entered the competition over the past two weeks, who may also be collectors. This one is unwatermarked, will download and print off  quite large and  in super quality! ENJOY!

OCTOBER DRACULA MONTH : COMICS AND MAGAZINE WEDNESDAY PLUS CAN YOU IDENTIFY THIS?

HAJIME ISHIDA'S MONSTERZINE made a wonderful return in 2013. I know little about Ishidma, except that he edited a very popular and quite excellent magazine / fanzine for fans of the fantasy genre during the 1980's. Sadly, as with many such mags, it bowed out and looked never to return. But like, what appears to be his favorite Horror film character, it CAME BACK, from the GRAVE. And what a return! MONSTERZINE covered an array of monster movies, the classic Universal film catalogue and also the brilliant Godzillia flicks. But, it's the subject of #HAMMERFILMS that seems to hold Hajime's attention and passion. And in particular, their Dracula series of films

TO BE QUITE FRANK I am not not a lover of books on Hammer films, with ACRES of reviews of said films. I quite like to make my own mind up about a film and unless the opinions of the flick, are giving by people who were involved with the production of it, I glaze over. Now I know there are MANY who LOVE reviews, that's why I post them. But me? I am a visual chap. I still like to spend a Sunday afternoon, grazing through my children's picture books, minus the text and a story. A box of crayons, I am game! Simple? Yes, I am. AND YES, it STILL remains a mystery as to how, I EVER got my Degree's and Masters. So, when I first opened a Ishida magazine, I thought I had found the Ambrosia of Hammer Film books. MASSES OF PHOTOGRAPHS. 

YOU SEE, I am also a collector of stills and images. Ishida, edits and publishes the kind of books that present Hammer films, in the most of attractive ways, visually. During 2011 and 2013, MONSTERMAGAZINE also released TWO Photo Album Books. Volume one on the Hammer Dracula series and Volume Two dedicated to the Hammer Frankenstein's. Lovingly Lavish, Sensibly Presented and not shy on sharing a few rare photographs too. The regular MONSTERMAGAZINE also contains a news and features section, but there are still many many pages of images. The dedicated Photo Album's have very little text. Which is just as well, as what there is, is in Japanese. If you LIKE the experience of turning the page and going 'Ooooh!' at the content, The Hajime Ishida's Photo Album's are for you!

IT'S WORTH MENTIONING, that it was HAJIME ISHIDA who for many years, religiously pushed the idea that Hammer films 1958 DRACULA DID contain a shoot of the melting Christopher Lee's Count, in the films final moments. Hajime went along to see the film in the 1960's with a still camera, hidden away on his person and snap a blurred shot of the burning face of Dracula AND the passionate scene with Christopher Lee and Melissa Stribling. Many experts and fans, still refused to listen and insisted the scenes did not exitst, only as still publicity photographs, taken by the set photographer. ALL these amazing shots WERE finally included in the Lionsgate Blu Ray remaster of the film in 2103. They were all cleaned and remastered from a Japanese print, just like the one Hajime saw decades before . . . 

WHAT IS THAT THING???  Yes! It ain't pretty is it? In our continuing dip into Collectable Comic, Mags and Posters featuring the work of Peter Cushing, comes THIS very odd cinema poster for, 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'. The film had a long tour and presence in cinemas around the globe after it's stunted release in 1973 and with it came weird posters, titles and press kits. In some cases like this one, posters were quickly and cheaply made up, with limited images and resources. I am not absolutely sure of the country where this 'art attack' was displayed and used.

THE STUCK ON WHITE FANGS are 'interesting', also Lee's glowing eyes, but personally, that isn't what has puzzled me most about the pasted up images, that were cobbled together and used to make this poster. Can ANYONE identify and tell me, what is THAT behind the photo of our frantic king vamp?? For years, I have blown up the image, studied it and have drawn a blank! Anyone??? IF you have a suggestion, please come join us at  our post on this NOW at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE!

THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA MONTAGE

#HAMMERFILMSATURDAY : It's the weekend, it's Saturday...and only GOOD things should happen, weekends...like treats. Like this wonderful montage using John Cacavas (Airport 1975, Kojak, Horror Express) music and a skillful edited from CNN Ironhandz . .. It's Glitter meets the Gothic in Hammer films 1973, The Satanic Rites of Dracula starring Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. together as the Count and the Hunter, for one last time. The older I get, the more I really DO love this films and Dracula AD 1972. too There's a VERY DARK LATTE at the Cavern Coffee Bar, that this will be released on BLU RAY before the end of the year! (2017)

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HAMMER FILM CUSHING AND LEE GIFS WITH SUPPORTING FEATURES AND GALLERIES

CHRISTOPHER LEE'S DRACULA IN DRACULA AD 1972 SNARLS AT PETER CUSHING'S VAN HELSING ONLY REVENGE ON HIS MIND

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE HAMMER FILMS DRACULA / VAN HELSING

SAGA IN 'THE TRIALS OF VAN HELSING' PART ONE AND TWO : HERE 

 

PETER CUSHING'S BARON FRANKENSTEIN PLEADS WITH HIS FRIEND, PAUL KREMP TO SAVE HIS LIFE IN HAMMER FILMS 'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN' (1957)

 FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FIRST IN THE HAMMER FILMS 'CUSHING FRANKENSTEIN SERIES' , THE FILM THAT LAUNCHED CHRISTOPHER LEE'S CAREER , WITH A BARON THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD: THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN WITH VINTAGE PHOTO  GALLERY AND MORE HERE

ARMED WITH A SILVER BULLET CUSHING'S VAN HELSING HAS THE COUNT CORNERED  IN 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA'

READ ALL ABOUT THE LAST STAND OFF BETWEEN CUSHING'S VAN HELSING AND LEE'S DRACULA IN 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA' FEATURE WITH GREAT PHOTO GALLERY AND BEHIND THE SCENES STILLS  HERE 

THE DEAD ARE AWAKE AND WALKING AND BENT ON REVENGE : CHRISTOPHER LEE AS KHARIS PAYS CUSHING'S JOHN BANNING A VISIT IN HAMMER FILMS 'THE MUMMY' FROM 1959

READ ALL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF 'MUMMY CINEMA' AND THE HAMMER FILMS 1959 RELEASE, IN OUR EXTENSIVE VINTAGE GALLEY AND FEATURE HERE

 DRACULA'S GRIP OF TERROR  REACHES ACROSS A HUNDRED YEARS TO 1972 AND NOW BRINGS HIS REVENGE ON VAN HELSING HIMSELF IN HAMMER FILMS, 'DRACULA AD 1972'

CHRISTOPHER LEE AND FAMILY WITH PETER CUSHING ON THE SET OF  DRACULA AD 1972. MORE BEHIND THE SCENES RARE PICS IN OUR FEATURE HERE 

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