THIS WEEK'S #CUSHING GIF WEDNESDAY has a certain, STABBING and SHARP point to it! A selection of GIFS from the films of PETER CUSHING, all showing some chilling END POINT! How many of these films can you name? We'll be providing the answer on NEXT WEEKS CUSHING GIF WEDNESDAY!
HAVE YOU ENTERED OUR PCAS COMPETITION? OPEN UNTIL SUNDAY 20TH MAY! GOOD LUCK!
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#CHRISTOPHERLEESATURDAY: When Sir Christopher Lee relocated to US to
avoid typecasting in the late 70's he appeared in a number of different
genres of films comedy's, musicals . . . He did however make a few horror
films during this period..Here is one of the more stranger ones, 'The Howling 2' . . . a sequel to Joe Dante's 1981 werewolf classic 'The Howling'!
WHEN LEE WORKED with Dante in 1991 in Gremlins 2: The New Batch, one of the first things he did was apologize to director Joe Dante, for being in this film! Here is a fun clip of the finale of the film with Lee's confronting the werewolf Stirba. Are you a fan of this rather 'out there' film?
THIS OUR LAST COMPETITION to be ever launched or posted at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE...it will close TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT! So if you are going to enter,
NOW is the time!!
ALL competitions after this one, will be held ONLY at THIS PCAS WEBSITE..where they
are not hidden and crushed from reaching...er..over 33,000 people who
supposingly have joined the Peter Cushing page . .Good Luck with this competition, it's a GREAT release from INDICATION! YOU can ENTER HERE by posting YOUR answer to our WEBSITE email : petercushingpcas@gmail.com . . . .
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coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY!
It's THAT time again. You know the rules by now. ONLY send your answers
using the MESSAGE button, no entries on the thread below. Many Many
thanks to Indicator and GOOD LUCK to everyone, this BOX SET is a
smasher! GOOD LUCK!
Release date: 19 February 2018 Limited Blu-ray Edition (World premieres on Blu-ray)
HAMMER VOLUME TWO: CRIMINAL INTENT
: THE SNORKEL (Guy Green, 1958)
NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (Cyril Frankel, 1960) : THE FULL TREATMENT (Val Guest, 1960)
: CASH ON DEMAND (Quentin Lawrence, 1961)
Release date: 19 February 2018
Limited Blu-ray Edition (World premieres on Blu-ray)
Four classic thrillers from the vaults of Hammer Films released on
Blu-ray for the very first time, including premiere presentations of the
complete, uncensored UK theatrical release versions of Val Guest’s The Full Treatment and Cyril Frankel’s Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
and a host of new and exclusive extra features. This stunning Limited
Blu-ray Edition Box Set from Indicator is strictly limited to 6,000
numbered units.
INDICATOR LIMITED BLU-RAY EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES:
• HD restorations of all four films
• Original Mono audio
• New title-specific documentaries exploring aspects of each film
• Audio commentary with film historian Michael Brooke and author Johnny Mains on The Snorkel •The Snorkel original script ending: reconstruction of the finale of Jimmy's Sangster's screenplay
• Two presentations of Never Take Sweets from a Stranger: with the original UK titles; and with the alternative US Never Take Candy from a Stranger titles
•Never Take Sweets from a Stranger introduction by actor and filmmaker Matthew Holness
• Two presentations of The Full Treatment: the uncensored UK theatrical cut; and the censored US version with alternative Stop Me Before I Kill! titles
• Audio commentary with film historians Jonathan Rigby and David Miller on Cash on Demand • New and exclusive interviews with cast and crew members, including actors Janina Faye (Never Take Sweets from a Stranger) and Lois Daine (Cash on Demand), props master Peter Allchorne (The Snorkel) and second assistant director Hugh Harlow (The Snorkel)
• Appreciations of composers Elisabeth Lutyens (Never Take Sweets from a Stranger) and Francis Chagrin (The Snorkel) by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde •Hammer’s Women: Betta St John (2018): Diabolique magazine’s editor-in-chief Kat Ellinger offers an appreciation of the American actress, singer and dancer
• Hammer’s Women: Gwen Watford (2018): British cinema expert
Dr Laura Mayne explores the life and career of the prolific English
film, stage and television actress
•Hammer’s Women: Diane Cilento (2018): Dr Melanie Williams, author of Female Stars of British Cinema, explores the life and career of the Australian theatre and film actress and author
•Hammer’s Women: Lois Daine (2018): critic and author Becky Booth on the popular English film and television actress
• Archival documentaries, interviews and featurettes
• Original trailers
• Image galleries: extensive promotional and on-set photography, poster art and marketing materials
• Exclusive booklets for each film, with new essays by Kat Ellinger,
Julian Upton and Kim Newman, archival interview materials, contemporary
reviews, and full film credits
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• World Blu-ray premieres of all four films
• Limited Edition Box Set of 6,000 numbered copies.
TODAY
WE REMEMBER Robert Quarry, a great actor best known for his roles in a
number of horror films in the 70’s such as 'Count Yorga Vampire' (1970)
and its sequel 'The Return Of Count Yorga' (1971) , 'Dr. Philbes Rises
Again' (1973) and 'Madhouse' (1974) with Peter Cushing and Vincent Price
. . Quarry was also featured in guest spots on such TV shows as "Studio
57," "The Lone Ranger," "Hallmark Hall
of Fame," "Mike Hammer," "The Fugitive," "Perry Mason," "Ironside,"
"Cannon," "The Rockford Files," and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century."
OUTSIDE OF HIS WORK in movies and television, Robert also had a highly
distinguished stage career. Quarry acted in Broadway productions of "As
You Like It," "The Taming of the Shrew," "Richard III," and "Gramercy
Ghost." He acted alongside Cloris Leachman in "Design for Living" at the
Stage Society in Los Angeles and in 1966 went on tour with a traveling
roadshow production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
HE REGULARLY studied his craft at the Actors Lab in Hollywood. Blessed with an IQ of
168, Quarry was a Life master at bridge. In addition, Robert studied
cooking at the Cardon Bleu School in Manhattan and was the author of the
best-selling cookbook "Wonderfully Simple Recipes for Simply Wonderful
Food." Robert Quarry died at age 83 on February 20, 2009 in Woodland
Hills, California.
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coordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA
OVER AT OUR PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE we have just launched our LAST competition of the festive season and this year. Feel free to CLICK on that BLUE LINK and send us your entry. Here are all the details of the prize and the post that accompanied the competition below.
ANOTHER PCAS FESTIVE COMPETITION! To help make your 2017 go OUT in style
and welcome IN a screamingly good 2018, here's your chance to bag a
copy of Peter Cushing's AMICUS film TORTURE GARDEN remastered and packed
with extras from Indicator Entertainment, who have generously sponsored
our festive frightening competitions this year. Follow the competition's instructions CAREFULLY. THIS COMPETITION is OPEN TO EVERYONE, wherever you are! Thank you ALL for a special 2017. For your continued interest and support. Good Luck and a HAPPY NEW YEAR - Marcus
SPECS: INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION SPECIAL FEATURES: • High Definition remaster • Original mono audio • Ramsey Campbell on Robert Bloch (2017 • Interview with Fiona Subotsky (2017 • Interview with actor Barbara Ewing (2017 • Hannah Gordon on husband DoP Norman Warwick (2017, • Original theatrical trailer • Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography • New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne, an
overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on
the film • UK premiere on Blu-ray • Limited Edition of 3,000 copies
ORDER YOUR COPY OF THIS LIMITED EDITION FROM INDICATORHERE!
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WE HAVE JUST LAUNCHED the FIRST of TWO competitions on our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page!IF YOU would like to enter, just read the COMPETITION BANNER ABOVE and click on the 'CLICK HERE' LINK BELOW to go to the COMPETITION POST: CLICK HERE!
GOOD LUCK!THERE IS ANOTHER COMPETITION to win the AMICUS COLLECTION blu ray BOX SET HEREtomorrow!
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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY!THIS WEEKEND is DOUBLE COMPETITION TIME! Happening here at the website AND at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE. Our COMPETITIONS are OPEN TO EVERYONE, WHEREVER you are . . . So BE SURE to JOIN us THIS SATURDAY and SUNDAY!
REMEMBERING: Melissa Stribling who was born today November 7th 1927. Stribling
appeared in just the one film with Peter Cushing...but boy did she pick
the right one! She also got to play in one of Hammer films most iconic
scenes in their 1958 'Dracula', where Christopher Lee's Count, in the
dead of night, visits her home and..without a word.. seduces her. The
scene is so super charged with sexual tension,
it almost crackles off the screen and as a result got the scissors
treatment from the censors at the time. In 2013, in Hammer's restored
print the exorcised footage was replaced, giving us the full picture of
what Director Terence Fisher, Stribling and Lee had originally intended
and created.
A LARGEscan of a superb vintage publicity photograph of Melissa
Stribling as Mina Holmwood, in 'Dracula / Horror of Dracula ' (1958)#hammerfilms#dracula#petercushing
I HAVE READ in several reviews of 'Dracula' both from the time of the films' release in 58 and in more recent times, that Stribling was a curious choice for the role of Mina Holmwood, that compared to the likes of Valerie Gaunt and other Hammer actresses, even though she was only in early 30's when she appeared in Dracula, many thought her slightly ordinary and plain. I totally disagree...but if that was the case, I can't help thinking that, director Fisher's choice in Stribling was intentional. That subtext in the story of Arthur Holmwood's wife being frustrated and bored, suddenly being charmed and seduced by the exotic and erotic Count, Stribling was...the perfect choice.
REMEMBERING DAVID OXLEY. (November 7th 1920 - October 30th 1985 ) Was there ever a more terrifying, evil, rip snorting, bag of fury than Oxley's portrayal of Sir Hugo Baskerville in the 1959 Hammer films production of 'The Hound of the Baskervilles' starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee? I must be honest, I actually find him more frightening than the hound!
IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.
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