HALLOWEEN COMPETITION NUMBER ONE NOW CLOSED: WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED ON SATURDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2018

BOO! HERE IT IS! 🙂 The FIRST of our THREE PCAS Halloween Competitions 2018 🙂 PLEASE ONLY send your answers using the MESSAGE / CONTACT BUTTON at the top of this page, as usual. Sadly, any entries posted in the thread below, will be deleted and not counted as entries. If you can't wait to win, to own your own copy of this outstanding remaster of a great Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee Hammer DRACULA film... the blu ray is OUT NOW! 

YOU can ORDER and PURCHASE your copy of the Warner Brothers Archive Collection REMASTEREd Blu Ray HERE!

THE GIFS IN THIS FEATURE WERE NOT MADE

 USING THE REMASTERED BLU RAY

WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER Warner Brothers Competiton TOMORROW, where you can bag yourself copies of the remastered blu ray of the Dracula AD 1972 SEQUEL, 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'! All correct answers will be as always, dropped into a pot and FIVE lucky winners will be announced HERE on Thursday November 15th! As ever, this competition is OPEN to everyone, no matter where you are! So GOOD LUCK! Have fun and get your entry in NOW 😉

SPOT THE ODD ONE OUT! DRACULA AD 1972 TRADING CARDS

TRIVIA: Here is something to get your brain cells ready for the start of our FIRST Warner Brothers PCASUK competition THIS TUESDAY (30th October)  😉 Here is a bit of fun, I have posted over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE 😉 HERE ARE FOUR rare and collectable Hammer films Dracula AD 1972 trading cards. Which is the ODD ONE OUT and TELL US why! Shouldn't be difficult for the Hammer Drac fans here 😉 Lets see how many of you can guess this correctly 😉 - Marcus

HEADS UP AND DATES FOR THE PCAS WARNER BROTHERS DRACULA REMASTERED BLU RAY COMPETITIONS

HERE IS YOUR HEADS UP of when the first TWO competitons will kick start on here the PCASUK Website AND the facebook PCASUK Fan Page. The 'Dracula AD 1972' competition will be launched on TUESDAY October 30th and the Satanic Rites of Dracula Competiton will be launched the following day on WEDNESDAY October 31st... Halloween! 🙂 The competition for the framed and signed colour photograph of Christopher Lee from Dracula AD 1972, will launch the FIRST WEEK of November 😉 The PCAS Competitions are OPEN to EVERYONE. Whoever and Wherever YOU maybe! So brace yourself and get ready 😉 Any questions or queries, please post in the thread below 😉 - Marcus

DRACULA RESSURECTED: ABOVE OUR REVIEW OF THE WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED BLU RAY OF DRACULA AD 1972 : CLICK HERE!

REMEMBERING VINCENT PRICE TODAY AND ANOTHER PCASUK COMPETITON WITH TWILIGHT TIME'S LIMITED EDITIONS UP FOR GRABS

NEWS: WITH THE RELEASE of the TWILIGHT TIME blu ray of Hammer films, 'SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST ' it's great to be able to announce the launch of ANOTHER Cushing / Hammer films competition, during NOVEMBER 3rd and 4th 2018. We have FIVE copies of the Twilight Time LIMITED EDITION blu ray to give away as prizes. So keep your eyes peeled for more news on the competiton and YOU TOO could be a WINNER. MANY MANY thanks to the guys at Twilight Time for support ANOTHER PCASUK Competition, with a very generous sponsorship of prizes!

TODAY WE REMEMBER the wonderful, VINCENT PRICE who we sadly lost on this day in 1993. Over at the FACBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE many are sharing their memories and stories plus their favourites from the extensive career that VINCENT PRICE shared with us! HERE are just a few of the films that have been mentioned. CAN YOU NAME THE FILMS THAT ARE FEATURED IN OUR GIFS?? Feel free to join in at the FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.

FOUR CUSHING NETWORK PREMIERS ROLLING OUT IN NOVEMBER!

NEWS: From November 3rd, Horror Channel celebrates vintage 1950s home-grown fantasy and horror with a HAMMER CLASSICS SEASON on SATURDAY NIGHTS! This primetime Saturday night season, is rolling out FOUR network premieres, which star Peter Cushing, and kicks off with Val Guest’s atmospheric masterpiece, 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN', The other three, are all directed by Terence Fisher: Cushing and Lee's FIRST Hammer film, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957), the hypnotically sensual and ground breaking DRACULA (1958), which launched Cushing and Christopher Lee into global stardom, and THE MUMMY (1959). All FOUR make for splendid Saturday Night shocks...and a wonderful introduction to anyone who wants to sample the amazing work of Hammer, Cushing and Lee. What a TRIO! AND WE AT PCAS will be watching them too. We'll be FLAGGING UP a post to remind you of the BROADCAST and invting you to watch too and join us for a chat on the movie after on our FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! PLEASE come and JOIN US!

THE SEASON season kicks off first with : Sat 3 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN' (1957) – *Network Premiere : THEN Sat 10 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN' (1957) * Network Premiere, Sat 17 Nov @ 21:00 – 'DRACULA' (1958) *Network Premiere and finally, Sat 24 Nov @ 21:00 – 'THE MUMMY' (1959) *Network Premiere. A GREAT line up! - Marcus

THE PCAS REVIEW AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS, 'THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN'

THE PCAS FEATURE AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS,  'THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN'

THE PCAS FULL FEATURE AND GALLERY ON HAMMER FILMS 'DRACULA'

PCASUK INVITES TROY HOWARTH to travel through the HISTORY of the MUMMYfilms and Hammer films, classic THE MUMMY from 1959.JUST CLICK HERE!

THE HAUNTING OF HERSTMONCEAUX CASTLE AND REMEMBERING DIANA DORS!

THIS WEEKS CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY: IDENTIFY THE ACTOR and INVESTIGATING the similarities, should not be too difficult! THE ANSWER if  SOLVED will appear here on FRIDAY. IF it remains UNSOLVED, I will reveal the solution NEXT TUESDAY! GOOD LUCK! The photograph of Peter Cushing is from Hammer films, 'SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST' which stars Richard Greene and Peter Cushing. THURSDAY marks it's RELEASE on BLU RAY from TWILIGHT TIME on a REGION FREE DISC! MORE NEWS on THAT HERE tomorow!

THE ANSWER WE WERE looking for was HAUNTED: HERSTMONCEAUX CASTLE made in 1975. There were clues that WEREWOLF?: Cushing worked with Paul Annette, the DIRECTOR of the documentary, just two years before in Amicus films, 'The Beast Must Die' in 1973. Annette directed BOTH. 'The Beast Must Die' was about a WEREWOLF. A HAUNTING? Herstmonceaux Castle claims to be HAUNTED, and is the theme of the documentary. SUSSEX? Castle Herstmonceaux is based in SUSSEX. CASTLE? That's the theme and setting of the documentary. PETER CUSHING? Cushing provided the NARRATION for the entire documentary! The photograph of Peter wearing the bowler hat is taken from 'The Legend of the Werewolf', a Tyburn Film. It has no connection other than it also features a werewolf, like The Beast Must Die. This was a RED HERRING!

REMEMBERING: Diana Dors born today, October 23rd 1931. '"I’m the kind of girl that things naturally happen to. When they don’t, I give them a push"....Dors much loved and real national treasure for many years with a career as a model, actress, television personality and 'blonde bombshell'...and also a co star in TWO Peter Cushing films. 'From Beyond The Grave' for Amicus films and 'Nothing But The Night' also with Christopher Lee.

ABOVE: How UK PHOTOPLAY magazine covered and review NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT back in 1973 during it's theatrical release

ABOVE AND BELOW: HOW BOTH CUSHING AND DORS looked in Amicus films, FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE in 1973

PETER CUSHING ON SET: During the making of NOTHING BUT 

THE NIGHT (1973)

 

WHEN SATANIC GOT A BAD AND MANIC RE EDIT!

HAMMER FILMS 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA', narrowly missed being landed with the crass title of ' Dracula is Dead...and Well and Living in London' when shootinmg began in November 1972. When the film was distributed in 1979 by Dynamite Films in a heavily edited version, the curse of having bad title came back to haunt it, when it was released as 'Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride' The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, was also released and stamped in the US by Dynamite Films in 1979 in a heavily edited version as 'The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula', and was alternately known on the US trailer as The 7 Brothers and their One Sister Meet Dracula. Subtle? Hardly... Christopher Lee was never comforatble with the dragging of his rep and the Count into 1970's London, and 'jumping on a Number 21 red double decker bus, to Battersea' Thankfully, it never got to that point and did quite well. But these titles almost pushed it past that point...

INTERESTINGLY, Dynamite Films was owned by Max Rosenberg, the one time, one half of the Amicus films partnership, with Milton Subotsky. Throughout the 60's and 70's, Amicus were sometimes seen as Hammer's competition, though they never pulled the box office receipts that the Hammer House of Horror pulled. Although Tales from the Crypt did VERY well. How ironic, that Rosenberg would one day be distributing his own 'hack edit' job of Hammer's two final vampire films!