THE #ABBEYDALEPICTUREHOUSE #SHEFFIELD : #SHOCKINGWEEKEND! #DOUBLEBILLSOFHAMMERFILMS!

I AM ALWAYS very happy to give a #shoutout to anything that has a #PeterCushing / #ChristopherLee or #Hammerfilm flavour that is happening local to you... no matter where you are. All businesses are feeling the squeeze right now and certainly need any publicity they can get. Our local arts centres, community events and certainly our cinemas need your support... and the amazing 102 year old 'Abbeydale Picture House' in Sheffield, UK has been through it all.. and is still standing . . . and always providing great value for money! Simon Greetham has dropped us a line, to let us know about a weekend coming up and a fabulous opportunity to witness a Cushing and Lee classic plus THREE other beautiful Hammer films on THE BIG SCREEN! - Marcus

 

Simon Greethan: 'I thought this may be of interest a Hammer Film poster exhibition and two double bill screenings on Sat 19th & Sun 20th November, this weekend event will be taking place at the Abbeydale Picture House in Sheffield, the films to be screened are The Plague of The Zombies with The Devil Rides Out on the Saturday starting at 6:00pm and The Gorgon with Dracula Prince of Darkness on Sunday starting at 6:00pm....The Abbeydale Picture House is holding this event in association with the BFI....'

 

DETAILS: 

In collaboration with Reel Steel Cinema we’re presenting a Hammer Horror Weekender & Cinema Poster Exhibition, as part of the BFI In Dreams Are Monsters season. Featuring classic film titles and rare original cinema release posters.

Presenting a series of standout titles from a period in cinema where British horror changed the shape of the genre, these screenings will take place alongside a special cinema poster exhibition at the Abbeydale Picture House – featuring original cinema release quad posters from a private collection (gathered since the 1960s) – with rare original film posters from across Hammer and the wider horror genre, displaying the standout key artwork created in promotion of these titles, exhibiting this period in which the horror genre dominated cinema  . .

 

FEATURING TWO EVENING DOUBLE-BILL SCREENINGS (each from 6pm) across the weekend:

Saturday November 19th

The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Devil Rides Out (1968)

Sunday November 20th

The Gorgon (1964)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)

The exhibition will run 12pm-4pm each day (free entry).

MORE INFO can be found HERE!

 

Poster Artwork by #RosieWilson

 

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#ONSET AND #BEHINDTHESCENES RARE GALLERY #NOTHINGBUTTHENIGHT 1972 FEATURING #PETERCUSHING AND #CHRISTOPHERLEE

YOU CAN CATCH a really neat quality print of over at the PCASuk Facebook Fan Page HERE! 

 

MOST #ChristopherLee and #PeterCushing fans know the story behind, 'Nothing But The Night' released in 1973, which for many still holds as an odd and unusual movie... but nevertheless, a highly imaginative British supernatural horror/thriller, and sadly the only production from production company "Charlemagne Films," which was created by Sir Christopher Lee and Hammer producer Anthony Nelson Keys.There is more than a hint of '#WickerMan' in here.. and despite it's failure at the box office, Christopher lee remained proud of the project in his memoir, believing the film failed mainly because it was "ahead of its time." He would be proved correct when Jordan Peele's "Get Out" was released to much success in 2017. It's worth a watch, if you haven't seen it, you can FIND IT on our PCASuk Facebook Fan Page video section link above!

 

THERE IS MUCH here also in our PCASuk ON Set Gallery Part One... NO screen captures here, ALL vintage stills, and all captured by the eye of the gifted 'on set production photographer' -, #TomEdwards who worked on many, many of the best of #Hammerfilms, including some of #Cushing and #Lee's classics too! 

 

HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS TASTER, of a film that many have still to experience, I hope this first gallery whets your appetite .. there's MORE to come! - Marcus

 

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#PCASUKNEWS: #FABULOUSFILMS ROLLS OUT NEW #BLURAY OF CLASSIC #AMICUS TERROR TALES MOVIE!

#PCASukNEWS: Fabulous films are putting out a UK blu-ray of the classic Amicus films Dr Terror House Of Horrors 

 

THE STORY:

Dr. Terror (#PeterCushing) is a mysterious fortune teller who boards a #train to tell fellow passengers (#ChristopherLee, Roy Castle and #DonaldSutherland) their fortune with tarot cards. Five possible futures unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a #werewolf out for revenge; a huge flesh-eating vine takes over a house; a musician gets involved with #voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand and a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire. But they all end in the same result...DEATH!

 

A FASINATING and fast paced example of portmanteau filmmaking with a deadly twist in the tale...

 

A FULL PCASuk FEATURE on the MAKING of 'DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORROR'S, with #GALLERY of #RAREPRESSSTILLS and MORE HERE at the #PCASukBlog 

 

THE EXTRAS:

-Previously unreleased interviews with Kenny Lynch, Ann Bell and #JeremyKemp.

 

-House of Cards Documentary

 

- A Gallery of Images 

 

-Original Theatrical Trailer

 

-Packaging Features Double-Sided Foldout Artwork Poster by #GrahamHumphreys

 

- A Film Guide Booklet

 

REGION: TBC 

RELEASE DATE: TBC

 

#petercushing #christopherlee #donaldsutherland #roycastle #horror #halloween #clasicfilm #britishhorror #hammerhouseofhorror #drterrorshouseofhorrors #fabulousfilms #spooky #bluray #bluraycollector #dvd #grahamhumphreys #amicusFilm

 

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PETER CUSHING AND CHRISTOPHER LEE ALMOST #SNOOKERED!

#CUSHING and #LEE are SNOOKERED! During making of #Amicusfilms #THESKULL at #SheppertonStudios in 1965, the cameras were about to roll on a scene where both Cushing and Lee's characters were about to chat, about the purchase of a 'dodgy antique' over brandy and cigars.. and a gentleman's game of snooker! There was one problem, which almost left director #FreddieJones almost speechless. Cushing and Lee admitted to Francis they knew absolutely nothing about the game and had never played the game! Francis said at the time, 'The only two actors in Britain, who can't play snooker!?' But they DID know how to act! Watching the scene now, you would never know that neither had ever blue chalked and held a snooker cue.. let alone pot a ball in a pocket!  - Marcus 

 

TRIVIA: In 1885, John Roberts, the then British Billiards Champion, visited India and met with Chamberlain during a dinner with the Maharajah of Cooch Behar. After enquiring about the rules of snooker, Roberts decided he would introduce the game back in England. The game has been very popular in the UK ever since, 'Snooker and Billiards Halls' sprung up around the country from around 1900's and was very popular during the first and second WW. Snooker is an extremely competitive game now, with championships televisied in the UK with winners earning very large sums of money!

 

ABOVE: The AMICUS films of PETER CUSHING includes a large feature with RARE STILLS GALLERY and MORE! HERE! 

 

ABOVE: FULL PCASUK REVIEW AND GALLERY HERE! 

 

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