WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED HORROR OF DRACULA BLU RAY COMPETITION NOW LIVE!

AS PROMISED our LAST competition for this year, has been launched today on the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE AND what a prize! 😲 With many thanks to our sponsors at Warner Brothers..we have a PAIR of their latest Peter Cushing Hammer film release... their REMASTERED blu ray of the restored BFI print of Hammer films 1958 DRACULA! All you have to do is guess the answer to our VISUAL competition. 

AS USUAL I have to ask that you DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER ON THE PAGE... send it to us using the SEND MESSAGE button UNDER THE COMPETITION BANNER 😉 Any answers or entries posted on the COMMENTS thread will be deleted and not counted as an entry. The competition CLOSES on Wednesday 19th December 2018. So get your ENTRY in now...and maybe you would like to give us a LIKE too? I'd be most grateful 😌😉 Have fun and GOOD LUCK! - Marcus

JUST CLICK ON THIS LINK to the WARNER BROTHERS SHOP site, where you can also purchase your copy of this release!

READ MORE on Hammer films DRACULA and the role that Peter Cushing played in FIVE Hammer DRACULA sequels as the arch Vampire Hunter, that influenced others who were to come . . THE TRIALS OF VAN HELSING: HERE! 

SUPRISE CORRECTIONS FOR FANS AFTER MANY YEARS ON!

IF YOU EVER posted your much prized copy of Peter Cushing's second autobiography, 'PAST FORGETTING' to him at his home in Whitstable in 1988 for him to sign, you may have been one of the lucky ones, to also get a little extra! The printing run of the book unfortunately had a few printers typo errors, on pages 92, 10 and 14 . . which when Peter was signing your copy, he also took the time and trouble to correct those errors, with his most unmistakeable fountain pen and handwriting. Here is an example of those pages with his corrections. Quite a few of our followers at the the PCASUK Facebook Fan Page have posted on the thread of this post today, also telling us they too have found corrections on their signed copy . . bit only found it either today or quite recently! It's just as well he isn't around to see some of MY regular typos hereat the website and on the PCAS Facebook Page . . they would keep him very busy! Many thanks to my good friend, Linda King for sharing the pages of her copy!

YOU'LL FIND TODAY'S POST AND AN ARCHIVE OF MOST OF OUR PCASUK WEBSITE POSTS FROM THE LAST EIGHT YEARS AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! IF YOU ENJOY OUR POSTS AND WANT TO COMMENT OR DISCUSS THE WORK AND LIFE OF PETER CUSHING, COME AND JOIN OVER THIRTY THREE THOUSAND OTHERS, AND TAKE PART IN THE OLDEST PETER CUSHING FAN CLUB, NOW ON FACEBOOK BOOK! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CLICK HERE  AND THEN CLICK LIKE THERE! YOU'LL BE MOST WELCOME!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY : KELLY SHARES A NEW FIGURE

A NEW MICHAEL RIPPER sculpt is in the works from KELLY GODEL. Premièring here at the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society and and at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE too! Kelly tells us that, 'The previous Michael Ripper figure was inspired by Ripper's character in Hammer films, Scars of Dracula. This is more of a "Tom Bailey" but without the beard (yet)!

Although Kelly is still working on this figure, I could see this one already had all the signs of being just as excellent as his last Michael Ripper, and I think it will being sought after by figure collectors. I Kelly him how would someone go about ordering one?. 'I don't have any selling plans other than if anyone wants one they message contact me--and there are more to come. I can be contacted at, kgodel@show(dot)ca or they can facebook message me.'

I never really saw Michael very often after he retired. Even though when he was working, he always made time for fans and was, in all this attention, an extremely humble man. He admitted he was a little confused and enormously flattered by the interest that his work with Hammer was now receiving. I once joked and said he might be surprised yet, should they erect a statue of him in honour of his work. He smiled and actually blushed! 

During our chatting on facebook today, I mentioned to Kelly that it was great to see this figure was up to his usual excellent standard. And that I was pleased to see he had chosen to make another Michael Ripper figure! Within seconds, Kelly's reply came through on the chat box...it said, 'I haven't forgotten that you said, Michael Ripper would be "over the moon" to have had a statue made of him, so I had to do two!' 

Hmm, I think Michael would have liked that..!

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TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND HELPING TO KEEP THE MEMORY ALIVE!

MANY, MANY THANKS to everyone who has joined our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page in the last four weeks, making it possible for PCAS to not only HIT the 25 THOUSAND followers mark but, to FLY WAY PAST IT!! To be quite honest with you, I thought I was seeing things, when I glanced at our total followers number. It's a staggering amount of friends and followers for our little society! And not since the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society was first founded in 1956...have so many friends belonged to this society. Peter would have been shocked I am sure!

WE KNOW FROM RECENT EMAILS and messages, PCAS has friends and followers as far away as Moscow, many in Australia, a few thousand in the UK, a huge amount in ALL the states of the USA, we get Hello's from just about every country in Europe, Ireland, Scotland, New Zealand, Brazil, Alaska and Canada.... To you ALL...... Thank you for your many very kind words, comments and continued interest. To those who write our fabulous features, those who send me photographs, cuttings and press reports. The people with their eyes on PC film releases and the many who I have have made friends with here over the past six years....  

We have recently move ALL our video clips, interviews, trailers and media from the M.BROOKS youtube channel to our NEW PCASUK Youtube Channel. We will no longer be updating posts at the M.Brooks channel. Why not give the new channel a visit and maybe subscribe, so you don't miss a thing? HERE 

IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE POSTING FOR YOU ALL and I hope to continue for quite some time yet. Here's to the NEXT big number...as Peter Cushing often said, it's time...'STEP OUT!'

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GIFS GALLERY: WE'VE HIT ANOTHER MILESTONE OVER AT FACEBOOK

THIS IS AMAZING! A HUGE thank you to everyone who visits and supports this Facebook Fan Page and who has joined us in the last SEVEN DAYS, since we announced reaching TWENTY TWO thousand followers!

THE PETER CUSHING Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page now has Over 23 THOUSAND Friends and Followers! This, I hope you realise, has only been archived with your fantastic support, your likes, shares. The total was hit BEFORE my chat with Nick Digilio on WGN RADIO in the USA, yesterday. You may have spotted the change in the total, like I did on Wednesday. I thought there was a bug or a glitch in the facebook system...so we waited, to see if it changed. But no, it racked up 22 thousand last Wednesday, and THIS Wednesday this NEW total was reached. It's still climbing!

I GUESS THIS PROVES what we have always known... it isn't really a question of Peter Cushing's assured place in cinema history, this proof of his relevance... TODAY! You prove that, and not just here.... I'll leave you with this though... A tool I use to assist with managing the website and this page, is an 'ALERT' option on my google mail. So, if any news, feature or mention of Peter Cushing is made on the net, I get a notification in my mail, to let me know. Let me just say, SIX out SEVEN days, there are ALWAYS fifty to sixty notifications...in the morning! That is filled up again with NEW notifications after lunch! AS Peter said about Helen when she passed, 'She hasn't GONE anywhere, she is HERE!' I have to agree, Peter Cushing is very much alive and kicking...and not just here either!

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WHAT DO GEORGE TAKEI AND PETER CUSHING SHARE IN COMMON?

QUESTION: What Do George Takei and Peter Cushing Share In Common?

ANSWER: If you CAN see this post on our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page, count yourself as one of the lucky ones. BOTH Takei and Cushing have FACEBOOK PAGES where their posts and content are hidden and reaches squashed by Facebook.... because they will not bend to pressure from Facebook to pay for the privilege of allowing their friends and followers to see their posts....

MONSTERMONDAY THE SKULL AND FREDDIE FRANCIS SCRIPT

This weeks #MONSTERMONDAY features not so much a body or person, but a head! The SKULL, of the Marquis de Sade to be exact! Amicus films, THE SKULL produced in 1965 starred another teaming of Peter with Christopher Lee, who were supported by the superb casting of Patrick Wymark, Nigel Green, Patrick Magee and Jill Bennett. In recent times, the cranked up suspense and lush photography has enjoyed a remastering on blu ray, unfortunately the 'clean-up' of the print reveals not only the finer framed details, but also the 'strings' that suspend the floating skull of the title! Having said that, the Skull's suspense and menace, still delivers unnerving chills some 50 years on...and makes it more than worthy of being our nominated Monster this Monday.... The Skull.thumbs UP or DOWN?

Peter Cushing and Jill Bennett in Le Crane Malefique - The skull from Amicus films directed by Freddie Francis. This FRENCH lobby card carries the proof of a replacement paper sticker, that has been placed over the original title in French. The heirs of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade pressed charges to prevent any use of his name on the advertising material. The changes on posters and lobby-cards were made at the very last minute by gluing a paper sticker with the new title "Le Crâne Maléfique" (meaning "The Evil Skull") on top of the former, "Les forfaits du Marquis de Sade" (meaning "the Infamies of Marquis de Sade"). Only on that condition the film could finally be released in the French territory.

For many years, the director of Amicus films, THE SKULL starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, insisted that the impressive 'dream sequence' that takes place in the film with Peter Cushing, was entirely improvised on the day of shooting, on the studio floor. Here we present , from our collection, two pages from director's Freddie Francis personal script of The Skull. Page 21 describes 'Scene 12A Int Library Night' and gives detail of a MONTAGE SEQUENCE 'almost Dreamlike'... to the right of the page, in Francis own handwriting is an annotation note which says, 'OLD FASHION DREAM TRICK', which throws some doubt on Francis story. Throughout interviews in later times, Francis expressed his irritation with producer Milton Subotsky, and his habit of presenting Francis with incomplete scripts. This FINAL DRAFT shows clearly that a dream sequence was indeed included in the final vision of the script and that before shooting commence, Francis had also identified the style and technique that would be needed.

The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society is based in the UK but truly is an international group of fans, friends and admirers of the work of actor Peter Cushing. Established in 1956, PCAS is celebrating its 60 year this year. From its humble beginings as a newsletter and journal managed by Ms Gladys Fletcher until 1979, when it became a journal and audio tape service. The development of the audio tape show, was a forerunner of the todays PODCASTS, which was recorded in the style of a radio show, including interviews, competitions, sketches and features. The PCAS Sound Mag, later branched out into a spin off club and it's own following called The Black Box Club. Now both PCAS and the BLACKBOXCLUB enjoy a very popular presence on the internet and across many media platforms and social network sites. The PETER CUSHING APPRECIATION SOCIETY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE  AND our WEBSITE are UPDATED SEVERAL TIMES DAILY.

CUSHING: #WHATSTHISWEDNESDAY: VINTAGE BBC TELEVISION PLAY

#WHATSTHISWEDNESDAY : Here's a VERY rare production still from a long lost BBC drama that Peter Cushing starred in. CAN YOU NAME THIS PLAY??  Send your ANSWERS to our usual email address theblackboxclub@gmail.com

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MARTIN SCORSESE : HAMMER FAN HINT FOR 2014 HALLOWEEN COMPETITION

Busy lining things up ready for our 2014 Halloween competition next week. Great prizes! What is the competition about this year? Here's a little hint from a big Hammer film fan....

CHRISTOPHER LEE REMEMBERS PETER CUSHING: 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF ACTORS DEATH

 

 

 Christopher Lee Remembers Peter Cushing

PETER CUSHING : CHRISTOPHER LEE: 'THE TRIALS OF VAN HELSING' COMING SOON!

CHRISTOPHER LEE AND PETER CUSHING AS COUNT DRACULA AND HIS ARCH NEMESIS VAN HELSING FROM DRACULA AD 1972 : 'THE TRIALS OF VAN HELSING' SERIAL FEATURE AND GALLERIES : COMING SOON HERE AT THIS WEBSITE AND THE UK PETER CUSHING APPRECIATION SOCIETY FACEBOOK FAN PAGE JOIN HERE!