#MOMENTSOFTERRORMONDAY! OUR usual MONDAY POST, but this week chosen one of the more unusual
films that PETER CUSHING starred in during his long career, SHOCK WAVES.
Everything about this low budget film is divided within the FAN
community. It's a film that people either LOVE passionately, or simply
HATE. In someways, you can understand why. It's still a mystery why
CUSHING committed to a film, that on a brief paper synopsis, SHOULD have
gained the same reaction he and his agent gave to John Carpenter's
HALLOWEEN a few years later. BUT for no more really than his travel
fair, bed and breakfast, CUSHING gained very little, at the time.
ABOVE : PETER CUSHING reflected in the MAKE UP mirror, having his facial scar
applied to his look of SCAR in 'SHOCK WAVES' (1975)
LATER AFTER HE RETIRED, CUSHING explained he committed to the film, as he
wanted to help, what appeared to be a team of dedicated amateur film
makers. Considering CUSHING was a man who had always pushed AGAINST any
proposed film work, that took him OUT of the country...MIAMI was a long
way to go, when he was no longer a young man, and his health wasn't the
best. BUT HE did it. And for those who LOVE this film, that is not their
gain, but in later years, just like other characters like Tarkin, Dr
Who and Sherlock Holmes...it helped bring him ANOTHER following.
SHOCK
WAVES was shot on 16mm, but later given the full treatment by BLUE
UNDERGROUND who remastered the master print, cleared the sound, and
presented the quite amazing BLU RAY of the film, to a HUGE SUCCESS. BLUE
UNDERGROUND did even more with another, of the radar PETER CUSHING film
called CORRUPTION. Remastered, and presented with a HUGE extra features
support, BOTH films, are some of the best jobs ever made on a lesser
known PETER CUSHING film . .
