FULL EXTRAS MENU OF #INDICATOR #POWERHOUSE UK PREMIERE BLU RAY CUSHING 'SLASHER' 1968 'CORRUPTION'

NEWS! HERE are the details of the #Powerhouse/ Indicator films Limited Edition Blu-ray (UK Blu-ray premiere) of Peter Cushing 'slasher movie' 'Corruption', NOW available for PRE ORDER, for its release date of 16th August 2021 😊 As many of you, I am sure know, THIS is a Cushing character and performance like no other, for sure. The film also stars Sue Lloyd, #KateOMara and Anthony Booth, directed by #RobertHartfordDavis. Corruption is a film that certainly pushed the envelope of gore and sleaze in its era.

 

DESPITE it's sometimes mixed range of personal critiques from Cushing fans, when it was released by Grindhouse a few years ago, with it's remastered, extras packed, double disc, two version package and cover box illustration, Grindhouse sold ALL its stock in days! Again, we have a great range of extras, and again, the two feature presentations: the theatrical version (92 mins); and the more graphic international version (91 mins). There's a nice director's shooting script gallery, interviews, commentary and enough to keep you entertained for an evening or two after your viewing, while you recover 😏  Personally, I LOVE the cover. 

 

UNTIL #WarnerBrothers release of their remastered #Hammerfilm 'Dracula AD 1972' with #PeterCushing and #ChristopherLee blu ray, the #Grindhouse remaster, was my favourite remastered Cushing movie, the image quality standard was very high, and remains so. Until we get our review copy and launch our PCASUK Competition, I look forward to see if Indicator, has retained their VERY high standard of 'remastering' and packaging! Here is the run down of the EXTRAS!
 

WHAT DO YOU THINK? Why not pop over to the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page- and share YOUR thoughts? - Marcus

 

INDICATOR LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES

• 2K restoration from the original negative
• Two feature presentations: the theatrical version (92 mins); and the more graphic international version (91 mins)
• Original mono audio
• Audio commentary with Peter Cushing biographer David Miller and English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby (2013)
• The BEHP Interview with Peter Newbrook (1995): career-spanning audio interview with the producer and cameraman, made as part of the British Entertainment History Project, featuring Newbrook in conversation with Alan Lawson and Roy Fowler
• The Guardian Lecture with Peter Cushing (1986): audio recording of an interview with the legendary actor recorded at the National Film Theatre, London
• Interview with actor Phillip Manikum (2021)
• Interview with actor Billy Murray (2012)
• Interview with actor Jan Waters (2012)
• Whatever Happened to Wendy Varnals? (2013): interview with the English actor
• Stephen Laws Introduces ‘Corruption’ (2021): appreciation by the acclaimed horror author
• The Unkindest Cuts (2021): critic and writer Michael Brooke on the history of surgical horror
• Edgar Wright trailer commentary (2013): short critical appreciation
• Original UK theatrical trailer
• Original US theatrical trailer
• TV spots
• Radio spots
• Image gallery: promotional and publicity material
• Director’s shooting script gallery
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
• Limited edition exclusive 80-page book with a new essay by Laura Mayne, archival articles and interviews, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits
• Limited edition exclusive replica production stills
• UK home video premiere
• Limited edition of 5,000 copies 
• REGION-B "LOCKED"

YOU CAN PLACE YOUR PRE-ORDER : HERE!

 

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' HOW DO YOU MAKE AN ACTOR CRY AND MAKE A MASK TO COVER THE PHANTOM?' VIDEO INTERVIEW #HAMMERHORRORFILMS MAKE UP ARTIST ROY ASHTON

HOW DO YOU MAKE an actor cry on screen and why was it so difficult to create a MASK for 'The Phantom of the Opera'? Here's some answers in a little teaser clip of a PCASUK video interview with Hammer and Amicus films ace make up artist Roy Ashton at his home in 1983. During his long career Roy worked many times with #PeterCushing #ChristopherLee also #VincentPrice #JohnCarradine #VeronicaCarlson #BarbraShelley, just about every Brit fantasy actor and many others, from the mid 1950's until the end of his career in 1988. We interviewed Roy first in 1980, when he was made an honorary member of PCASUK along with Vincent Price, Milton Subotsky, Ingrid Pitt and Geofreffy Bayldon. Maybe his stand out creation on screen was Oliver Reed's lycanthrope in Hammer's 'Curse of the Werewolf', Christopher Lee's Kharis in 'The Mummy' and his uncredited assistance with Christopher Lee's first appearance as Dracula in Hammer's 'Dracula' in 1958. Maybe you have your own fav and opinion on the best of Roy Ashton's work? Please feel free to click this link to see the clip and maybe share your thoughts on the page too? Link HERE! 

 

ALSO POSTING THIS TODAY, over at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page to see how many of you grabbed this excellent book, back in the day? ' Greasepaint and Gore' by Bruce Sachs and Russell Wall, published by their company Tomahawk, a few years ago now. It's a interesting read, with some lovely illustrations of Roy's sketches and personal reference photographs.

 

THERE WAS ALSO A DVD, you could order which covered the career of Hammer's first make up artist, Phil Leakey. A very good interview. When I bought my copy of the dvd, I wondered why there wasn't any video interview footage of Roy. I met Bruce at a function a short while after the book and dvd had been launched, and ask him, why no Roy interview footage in the dvd. 'There isn't any footage of Roy being interviewed and he has now sadly passed!' he said. It was then I realised, being out of the loop for so long, he sadly knew nothing of the three hour interview I shot at Roy's home back in 1983!

 

HOW ANNOYING AND FRUSTRATING! Maybe a missed opportunity. The footage is still unedited, raw material on a blu ray conversion disc. Maybe one day . . ? You can still grab a copy of Bruce's book though. Lots of copies on ebay. Here are a few pages, for you to sample too.. if you have a copy, let us know and share what you think of it at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page!

 

WATCH ROY ASHTON AT HOME CLIP : 

 

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INDICATOR / POWERHOUSE ANNOUNCES AUGUST RELEASE FOR PETER CUSHING 1968 SHOCK SLASHER BLU RAY LIMITED RELEASE!

NEWS: WE GAVE A HEADS UP, at the beginning of the year, but at last we can announce that the UK gets finally gets it's own Blu Ray release of the #PeterCushing 1968 shocker, '#Corruption' from #Indicator / #Powerhouse films in August! Details of extras to be announced this week. Stay tuned!

 

SOMETHING NEW and a bit of fun, at the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page today. Peter Cushing often had some pretty interesting dialogue in the 92 films he appeared in.. whatever the quality of 'the lines' many believe he had a gift, of making them sound convincing and true. Some are memorable, especially, those that were his final lines in the movie. Here are the first two of a weekly post. Can you name the two films in which these were the final Cushing Character lines? Slip your thoughts, onto the thread at the Facebook Page 😏 - Marcus

 

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NEWS: MARY SHELLEY'S 'HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN' MUSEUM IN ENGLAND ANNOUNCES OPENING DATE!

NEWS: You might remember the #PCASUK News post we made back in April last year ( See second image in this album) . . It covers the fact that #MaryShelley, author of the classic novel '#Frankenstein', wrote the book during 1817 in the historical city of Bath . . and we brought the breaking news of a plan to open a Mary Shelley 'Frankenstein' themed museum in the city of #Bath, England to celebrate 'Where Shelley created' the nightmare story that went on to spawn it's own industry on stage, film tv and fascinate millions of Gothic loving fans and readers ! Well, IT'S ALIVE! Great news, the plan has come to LIFE and the museum. 'Mary Shelley's House of Frankenstein' opens in a few weeks time, on JUNE 30th 2021! We'll be bringing you some more updates and news, as the opening comes closer. 

 

LAST YEARS PCASUK NEWS POST BELOW!

 

FOR DECADES the character of #BaronFrankenstein has fascinated audiences with new theatre, television and cinema productions being produced every year. And it is maybe this and the fact that that the company behind the Frankenstein Museum , Bath Attractions . . is based in the very city where Shelley wrote the iconic 'Frankenstein' novel in 1818! 

 

 

IT WAS THE ROLE THAT nailed #PeterCushing to the movie map and made both him and Christopher Lee into household names, with a mini budget movie produced by an even smaller UK film company called, #Hammerfilms. Jimmy Sangster wrote a scaled down script of the classic novel by Mary Shelley, #Britishfilm director, Terence Fisher called the shots, and 'The Curse of Frankenstein' not only hit huge box office success, it also change the style of horror films and rebooted the Frankenstein film forever!

 

Peter Cushing would go to appear in a further FIVE Frankenstein films for Hammer. 'The Curse of Frankenstein' also presented Christopher Lee as a very different 'monster-creation', his appearance compared to that of the traditional Universal #BorisKarloff / Jack Pearce make-up artist style, was quite a different creature. Hammer films continued their #Frankenstein series, but again in a different direction to the Universal horror films. In a clever turn, they created a focus on adventures of The Baron himself, instead of the '#TheMonster'. It was a brilliant and box office friendly plan, as not only did the audience get a different creation for every new story and title, but also Cushing's amazing Baron for the price of one ticket! READ ON . .

NEWS : PLANS ARE BEING DRAWN UP for ‘Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein’ to celebrate the author’s “extraordinary life and her most lauded work” - much of which was penned in the Somerset city. Bath Attractions Ltd are planning to convert Grade II-listed offices in Gay Street - a few doors up from the Jane Austen Centre - and hope it could open later this year. The planning application says: “Mary#Shelley’s House of Frankenstein'' is a new multi-sensory, fully immersive family-friendly visitor attraction proposed for the City of #Bath, and the UK’s first attraction dedicated to Mary Shelley and her novel, Frankenstein , one of the world’s most famous, iconic and lauded creations.

 

“Exploring her complicated and tragic personal life, literary career and the novel’s continuing relevance today in regards to popular culture, politics and science, the attraction aims to deliver a sophisticated, entertaining and visceral experience like no other, and one which we hope the city of Bath can be proud of.”
 

THE AUTHOR'S LINKS to Bath are commemorated on a plaque at the site of 5 Abbey Church Yard, where she took lodgings arriving in the city in September 1816, then named Mary Wollstenecraft Godwin. It was there that she wrote much of Frankenstein, which was published anonymously in 1818 and is now regarded as the world’s first science fiction novel. We'll keep you posted of any more news!  

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'THE SAME AS A PLASTIC MODEL KIT!' PETER CUSHING MUSING ON FRANKENSTEIN

SYMPATHY for Frankenstein. Here is a quote from an interview Peter did way back in June 1967, for the UK ITV Granada programme 'Cinema', where he actually gets into the giggles, while trying to defend, Baron Frankenstein. A role he had played for #HammerHorrorFilms, four times at this point and was busy making another, 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed'. A terrible title. Over at the FACEBOOK PACSUK FAN PAGE, we are asking you take PC's opinion into account and share your opinion too, in the comments thread - Marcus

 

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