#MONSTERMONDAY: THE OBSESSION FOR POE!

#MONSTERMONDAY: YESTERDAY at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE we focused on  LANCELOT CANNING... the Man who collected Poe in the Amicus films 'Torture Garden' .... without giving away Canning's secret to anyone who hasn't yet seen the film...I mean, what kind of man would do that???? Certainly gives people who collects Cushing film photographs and posters ..or postage stamps a run for their money, for sure! SO... Canning? Monster or Victim? YOU decide! What says you?

WE HAD SEVERAL interesting comments and opinions from our friends and followers at the page, including: 

M.JAY: I don't really think of him as either - just an obsessive; but what a fantastic episode to end the film on! And what a pairing of Cushing and Palance! I always felt this episode could have made a whole film of its own; but maybe it would have been too similar in type to the The Skull?

M. IVESON: Neither! I would say obsessive. He took his harmless hobby a bit too far!

T. GAMMAGE thought it was all about MONSTER OBSESSIONS! : 'Both Jack Palance's character and Cushing's Canning were driven by the need to own everything about the writer POE. I think Cushing was the monster here. He resurrected Poe from the dead, so instead of a well deserved rest in the after life, Poe was walled up in a room scribbling new classics to satisfy the collecting ego of Cushing's character! He was a MONSTER!  

AND J. MORROW: I have always thought that this character was one of Peter's better roles. So well done.

 

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#GETTHECUSHION! 'THE SUIT' : ASYLUM

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING: Bruno (Barry Morse) delivering the suit to the mysterious Mr Smith (Peter Cushing) who soon reveals the true purpose of the suit.

THIS AGAIN IS ONE OF THOSE many performances that Peter drew inspiration from his own experience of losing someone as he had lost his beloved wife Helen only the year before.

IT'S A PERFORMANCE that is often over shadowed by his performance as Grimsdkye in Tales From Crypt but in my opinion it stands up there with it, as one of his most emotional performances.......

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HERE'S A SELECTION of posts Gifs and  images from our Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook FAN PAGE.  Unfortunately, technical problems on FRIDAY and SATURDAY, made it impossible for me to post these on the themed days...so here's a catch up!
 


#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: The Moment a terrified Anna (Veronica Carlson) stabs Dr. Frederick Brandt (Freddie Jones) from Hammer's Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: Dr. Frederick Brandt (Freddie Jones) having set his trap, watches as Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) arrives from Hammer's Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: The look of determination: Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) begins surgery as Dr. Karl Holst (Simon Ward) watches on…. from Hammer 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' (1969)

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: PROBABLY THE MOST requested clip we get asked for! Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) disintegrates as Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) watches in the extended death scene from Hammers Dracula/Horror of Dracula (1958). This time it's been requested by, Hannah Oliver, Scotland!

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: AND THIS ONE comes up very often too, as a photo request! A wonderful colourised  lobby card of Count Dracula (Christopher Lee) from Hammer's Dracula AD 1972. For Ewan Wilson, Cheddar, Somerset.

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#THREEQUESTIONSTHURSDAY! CLERICS, PAINTS AND NUMBERS!

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OUIJA BOARDS, ACID BATHS AND A BULLS EYE! ALL GIFS TODAY!

#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY: And so...for the last time in his cinema career Peter Cushing nails Count Dracula...unfortunately it was not Christopher Lee in this Hong Kong Kung Fu Hammer Films Mash Up, but as usual Peter Cushing gives it his all in the climax of The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires (1974).... Btw, Dracula's make up wasn't the result of an over enthusiastic make up artist, but this Dracula was presented in the style of the traditional Oriental Theatre make up of the villain...just saying!

#GIMMETHEGIF : A warning from the grave for Peter Cushing's iconic Arthur Grimsdyke in 'Tales From The Crypt' probably number three or four in most people's TOP FIVE CUSHING FILMS... or is number one for you?

#GIMMETHEGIF: Vincent Price and Christopher Lee in 'Scream And Scream Again'.... Price plays Dr. Browning and Lee as Fremont, both doing a very good job in their roles, so all the more surprising when all three stars, Lee Price and Cushing admitted to not understanding a word of the script or the story... 

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FAMILY FEUD : RODERICK THE BAD??

#MONSTERMONDAY: RODERICK GRISBANE... Monster or Victim?? It can get pretty lonely locked up in a attic room for a few decades. Enough to drive any man crazy! But is that any excuse to go on the rampage??? YOU decide! 

DESPITE WHAT YOU  may have heard or read from others, House of the Long Shadows, is a keeper. Plagued by the opinions of over optimist 'fans', the film is, what is. A one off gathering of four actors, now past the top of their game, but giving their all. For those expecting table leaping, fast chases and gore galore, you need to take a long look at the budget and the collective ages of the veterans at work here. What you do get is the reworking of an old tale. It's the old dark house, seven keys to baldpate... starring the very best. All four, Lee, Cushing, Price and Carradine, get their moment, their entrance and some pithy dialogue. Personally for me, it was the crowning cherry on the top of Cushing career cake! If you were expecting more, you've forgotten the roots from where our midnight horrors sprang from.. tight budgets, rushed schedules and cranked up drama... producers parameters set in stone and from such materials our beloved fantasy classics were hued... so get over yourself.

A FAN BOY I MAYBE, but my life would have been 102 mins the poorer had House of the Long Shadows not been produced, and for just this one time, bring my four fav terror theps together . . . and for that one reason alone, it puts the gripes in... the shadows!

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THE TRAIL OF DRACULA

#MONSTERMONDAY: Bram Stoker's classic novel "Dracula" has proved to be one of the most popular horror novels ever written. But, it was only released in Transylvania in the mid 1990s, where it was negatively received due to the comparisons between Dracula and Transylvanian national hero Vlad III. . . .this 2013 documentary from director David Mitchell, sounds a hoot! Now, if only i could find a copy of it! If YOU have seen it, please let me know!

THE FACE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR!

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING: Ralph Jason (Richard Greene) realises who the 'man' on the bike REALLY is! This GIF is from the 'Wish You Were Here' segment of Amicus 's Tales From The Crypt (1972). It's is a variation on W. W. Jacobs' famed old chestnut short story, "The Monkey's Paw."

TRIVIA: Peter Cushing was originally offered the part played by Richard Greene but wanted to play Grimsdyke instead!

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JOAN COLLINS DISCOVERS SANTA HAS ARRIVED !

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING: This week's classic clip is from 'And All Through the House' segment from Amicus's Tales From The Crypt (1972)

After Joanne Clayton (Joan Collins) kills her husband (Martin Boddey) on Christmas Eve, she prepares to hide his body but hears a radio announcement stating that a homicidal maniac (Oliver MacGreevy) is on the loose. She sees the killer (who is dressed in a Santa Claus costume) outside her house but cannot call the police without exposing her own crimes.

A WONDERFULLY SUSPENSEFUL story with Joan Collins really going all out with her performance and stylishly directed by Freddie Francis. The story was remade in 1989 as an episode of the TV series Tales From The Crypt (1988-96) directed by Robert Zemeckis.

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#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: VAMPIRE GIRL AND SCARS OF DRACULA

#HAMMERFILMSATURDAY: CHRISTOPHER LEE in a scene that resembles the Harker - Vampire Woman - Dracula set up in Hammer films first outing in 1958, with the 'HORROR OF DRACULA' Now, it's the beautiful actress Anouska Hempel and Christopher Matthews in SCARS OF DRACULA (1970)

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY: Requested Photographs for Aaron D. Haynes . . Christopher Lee in his fifth Hammer #DRACULA film, Scars of Dracula (1970). Maybe the weakest story, but certainly the most profitable Hammer film for Lee personally, who enjoyed a percentage from the world wide box office takings!! 

#HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY : Above two of the young stars from #SCARSOFDRACULA. Denis Waterman and Jenny Hanley as not only the 'love interest' in the film, but also the 'vampire killer' and...BAT BAIT! Maybe not the actors finest hours, Waterman along with his fellow cast member Christopher Matthews, were though by critics to have been miscast, and Hanley was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl. . Actor John Forbes- Robertson was considered to play the title role of the Count, when Lee dug in his heels and refused to return... only then to do a complete U -turn, and play Dracula for Hammer, one more time...Photographs REQUESTED by Daniel Miller and  Cheryl Hubbard.

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: THE MARVELOUS MARQUEE OF FRANKENSTEIN

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: The CALIFORNIA movie house opens with Hammer's 'The Curse of Frankenstein' starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in June 1957 . . . supporting is Dean Jagger in X the Unknown . . I LOVE the marquees of old cinema's. That's style.

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: A cutting from the release of 'The Curse of Frankenstein', starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee... and a fine example of the 'weird and wonderful' approach to the publicity pushing the release of the film in the US.

PETERCUSHING makes his first screen appearance in FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN