ITS ALL CHANGE ON SATURDAYS: #HAMMERFILMSSATURDAY!

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: ONE LOOK AT THE HEADER BANNER on this website, our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE   and any of our other internet platforms, will tell you all posts on our daily schedule is themed. Saturday's for the last few years has been dedicated to behind the scenes photographs from Peter Cushing's films, television and theater work. Now, it's time for a CHANGE! From THIS WEEKEND Saturday's will mean #HAMMERFILMSSATURDAYS! We'll be sharing the best in rare and popular colour transparencies, black and white stills from not only Peter Cushing's work with Hammer films, but #HAMMERFILM productions with a Peter Cushing connection! It makes for a pretty exciting day, which will include 'ON SET and BEHIND THE SCENES' images and photographs too! DO join us, this #HAMMERFILMSATURDAY!

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING! EVERY SUNDAY we invite you to hit the sofa, grab yourself a CUSHION to hide behind, as we discuss and dissect a classic Peter Cushing scene! Over the past few weeks we've covered some crackers! So join us on #SUNDAYS!

#MONSTERMONDAY is our way of starting the week with one of our most popular features! We pick a character from Peter Cushing's work and ask the question, 'Is THIS a Monster or a tragedy of a misunderstood unfortunate?' It produces some interesting points and debates, where sometimes you come away, never see that character in the same light again! Though many...ARE MONSTERS!!

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Our posts on a Tuesday could anything from models, rare memorabilia, publicity materials and rare candid photographs. It's the day where, we post the unusual and the iconic too!

#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY: HERE'S THE CONCEPT, you tells your favourite moment, a shot from a Peter Cushing film, and we'll present it as a silent clip, presented on a loop..JUST FOR YOU! We get skip loads of requests every week, we can only present a handful on our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE, so many, you find here, on this website, every WEDNESDAY and through-out the week, and dedicated to you, who requested it! 

 

 

 

 

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: While the rest of the net is posting it's nostalgic trips, we #THROWBACK to anywhere from 1913 until 1994, the years of Peter Cushing birth and passing under a multitude themes and subjects.

 

 

 

#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY : It's a role that Peter Cushing made all his own. With films decision to follow the adventures of the good Baron, instead of one creation, it broke the mould and gave us no more than SIX Hammer Cushing films! All winners, and all at some time covered on our weekly dip into the Frankenstein saga!

SO LOTS TO SEE AND DO, following our website and facebook page for the seven days! It should never be a passive experience for anyone. There's quizzes, PRIZE competition, much to discuss and comment on. It's YOUR website and Facebook Page... without YOUR interaction, the whole thing goes no where. So DO give us your likes, clicks, shares and comments..it helps to keep the memory of Peter's life and work, ALIVE! 

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#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY: SOME GREAT GIFS have been requested, by you, over the last few days, from some of the best moments taken from Peter Cushing's films. #DRACULAAD1972  #DRTERRORSHOUSEOFHORRORS, two key moments that everyone remembers! Also yesterday, we kicked off a new DAILY FEATURE that will be appearing at our FACEBOOK FAN PAGE and here at the website, The Cushing Geeks of the Day Factoid! It's a bit of fun. We'll be presenting a daily post of what could be facts or fabrications, on the life and career of Peter Cushing. Remember the focus is on FUN. We'll be asking you to comment and post, join in on debating if what we are stating is FACT or FICTION. From the individuals commenting, we'll be selecting one of the correct answer to make #CUSHINGGEEKOFTHEDAY...!! It's tongue in cheek and a wink at our fun preoccupation with all things connected with Cushing. It's why we are here!

#GIMMEGIFWEDNESDAY: FOR KIRSI AAVIKKO, UK this chiller moment for Christopher Lee's art critic, Franklyn Marsh from 'DR TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS. This story was maybe the beginning of Amicus films, LOVE of disembodied hands!

#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY: As popular as ever and proving the point we made last Sunday in our #GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING on DRACULA AD 1972, maybe the most POPULAR, UNPOPULAR Dracula film of the Hammer Cushing Lee series? Here for ROMA FARRADAY, UK is Christopher Neame's Johnny Alucard, 'Blinded by the light!'. Proving there is more than one way, to dazzle a vampire with a light . . and it doesn't have to be the sun!

 

#GIMMETHEGIFWEDNESDAY: FOR PERRY VESTLI, USA : ANOTHER one from the #DRACULA AD 1972 pile! That moment of, 'Well what's going on here then?' from Dracula, who thinks he has blown Van Helsing's plans to destroy him . . but, things changed very quickly in the next few seconds! All part of the great few great scenes with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee together, in the roles that helped to make them so popular! 

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#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: PEAS AND PICKLES, BRAM STOKER AND ERIC AND ERNIE!

IT'S A PRETTY PACKED #TOOCOOLTUESDAY THIS WEEK: We start with a #NEW feature, that will be appearing #DAILY here on the website and our PCASUK FACEBOOK FAN PAGE!A New One Every Day !Tell Us True or False and be Our Cushing Geek of the Day! ANSWER TOMORROW, WHEN WE POST TOMORROW'S ... Cushing Geek of the Day!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY BORN TODAY November 8th 1847 in Clontarf, Dublin, Republic of Ireland… BRAM STOKER, creator of Dracula and a hundred thousand nightmares! Happy Birthday, Mr Stoker! #TooCoolTuesday

#TOOLCOOLTUESDAY: It's February 3rd 1972 and "Live" on television, all glitter and glamour, is the once-a-year event, held in the Albert Hall, when the film and television industry presents awards covering the whole range of the industry . . .. and Peter Cushing is there to present his pals, Morecambe and Wise with their Best Light Entertainment Performance Award, along with their writer, Eddie Braben . . . and no, they didn't bring him his money!

#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Here is a very 'cool' video where Vincent Price is advertising 'Haywards Pickled Onions' from 1977

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ACTOR JOHN CARSON 1927 - 2016

Very sad to hear of the passing of actor John Carson today . . .for Hammer fans he will be remembered for his performances in The Plague of the Zombies, Taste the Blood of Dracula and Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter. His last professional role was for Donald Fearney, in his Amicus films documentary, 'The Amicus Vault of Horrors' last year . . .

CARSON AS SQUIRE HAMILTON IN HAMMER'S 'PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES'

John Carson with Peter in the BBC broadcast of 'CAVES OF STEEL' in 1964. All that remains of the production are just a few minutes, saved because they were included in another BBC programme a few years after the play's initial broadcast...after which the play was wiped. . .

John Carson and  Horst Janson in Hammer films, 'Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter' 1974.

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING : DRACULA AD 1972 : PROLOGUE

GET THE CUSHION IT'S CUSHING: 'Dracula AD 1972... by PeterCushingAppreciationSociety

#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING: AT ONE TIME it was THE Peter Cushing film that we received most negative comments about, if we discount the 1968 'The Blood Beast Terror' . .  (though I am convinced with Blood Beast, the negative grew purely from a comment Cushing once made in an interview, not about the actual content of the film, but the non too subtle sound of the title.) 

FOR A WHILE, the comments for and against the film, arrived about 50-50. Now, it appears DRACULA AD 1972 has come full circle. Since the early 90's, an appreciation of retro 1970's produced films have enjoyed a revival, with many features now striving to replicate that 70's look, the sound, the fashion. Hammer films through-out their time, always seems to just miss-time fads and crazes. Although their timing was spot on with a resurrection of Dracula in 58, and twisting the focus of Frankenstein on the 'Doctor', rather than the creation, in CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, Hammer went into co production on Kung Fu vampire flick, after the chop socky had cooled off.





REGRETTABLY, for some audiences, they dragged Dracula to the land of hot pants and psychedelia, when the trendies had long consigned their loons and tank tops, to jumble sales, and 'love ins' and 'pot fueled flower power drop ins and outs', had puffed their last and had really gone to pot. BUT, that didn't stop Hammer. A band of 'teenagers' out for kicks, and looking for all the world like a Brit styled 'bunch of meddling kids' from Scooby-Doos, would form the film's doe-eyed victims and as usual, it would be Peter Cushing's #VANHELSING who would save the day. But, what scriptwriter Don Houghton did to shake up the formula, and the placing of Van Helsing, how and when . . . . would male all the difference.

IMAGINE IT, sitting in your local cinema, in September 1972, watching DRACULA AD 1972 to for first time. The opening pre credit scene is the stuff of Hammer fans dreams. Van Helsing and Dracula face to face, fighting to the death, on top of a horse drawn carriage!! The narration explains the year is 1872, we are in our element! Then, the carriage wheel, Dracula dies, but Van Helsing perishes too! Where now? And then, the gravestone and the jet plane . It must have been a shock to an audience who were getting settled in to a film, they must have thought, was a return to Cushing, Lee and Dracula 1958 land?
The prologue to AD 1972, is a terrible tease, for what could have been, the Dracula film that never was. Maybe that is why, fans cherishes those four minutes . . . it was just 86 minutes short of what could have been a classic.   

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