#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: Here's an interesting publicity photograph, from a Cushing film, that you really don't see very much in the way of new unseen material. But, this is a great little pic! So. Any idea? This pic has just been loaded and shared onto the #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY thread at at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE . Why not jump on the page, it is open to everyone, not just members, and see what everyone else thinks about this young lad!?
Friday 24 February 2017
#FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY: WHO IS THIS BOY?
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REMEMBERING DIRECTOR TERENCE FISHER ON HIS BIRTHDATE
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY : #TBT : A
man who certainly needs no introduction to anyone who regularly visits
this page. Today we mark the birthday of the late Terence Fisher, a
director whose trade mark blend of fairy-tale, myth and sexuality, gave
us some of Cushing's and Hammer films greatest hits. The Curse of
Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Gorgon, Frankenstein Must Be
Destroyed..... and many, many others. All absolute gems. Happy Birthday
Terence Fisher!.
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A COUPLE OF GRUESOME GIFS FOR WEDNESDAY!
A BUSY WEEK and just time for a few requested gifs
GIMMETHEGIF: Above, Paul Toombs (Vincent Price) makes a run for it when he sees 'Dr Death' approaching from AIP/Amicus's Madhouse (1974) Requested: G Williams, Leeds UK
#GIMMETHEGIF: Linda Hayden is bumped of in a grisly fashion, in making the next victim of Dr Death in 'Madhouse' (1974) Requested: Tammy Rexford Flordia, USA.
GIMMETHEGIF: A scene that really did put the scares on the audiences back in 1960.Greta (Freda Jackson) helps a 'fresh' vampire rise as Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) watches on in horror from Hammer's The Brides Of Dracula (1960) Requested: S. Jackson, VA, USA
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Thursday 23 February 2017
#TBT : MIRRORS, TEA, LOOSE CHANGE AND DR TERROR!
MIRRORS TEA AND LOOSE CHANGE! A beautiful colour slide of Peter Cushing as Doctor Schreck / Dr Terror from the Amicus classic, Dr Terrors House of Horrors. A role that Peter Cushing played very well and one of my personal favorites. Schreck was a crafty 'soul', who used tarot cards and the hold that superstition has over us, to tell his tales and seal fates. Which kinda got me thinking... superstitions and private rituals? I always stir tea or coffee anti-clockwise never the other way, I NEVER look into a mirror UNLESS there is a light on in that room and when I go out...I have to have the SAME amount of loose change in each of my two coat pockets! Crazy? Maybe.
DO YOU have any kind of rituals, things you HAVE to do? Over at our Peter Cushing Appreciation society Facebook Fan Page, we opened the thread of this post and asked everyone to tell us if they also have any superstitious quirks or rituals! HERE are a few from those who spilled the beans and tempted fate, by telling us!
DO YOU have any kind of rituals, things you HAVE to do? Over at our Peter Cushing Appreciation society Facebook Fan Page, we opened the thread of this post and asked everyone to tell us if they also have any superstitious quirks or rituals! HERE are a few from those who spilled the beans and tempted fate, by telling us!
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ROGUE ONE BLU RAY DVD AND 3D CONTENTS REVEALED : TRAILER : CASES ART WORK
NEWS: ROGUE ONE BLU RAY CONTENTS REVEALED AND TRAILER! And the line up of the contents sound good too! Can't wait to own this one. What do YOU think of the contents???
THE STAR WARS stand-alone has earned more than $1 billion at the box
office. Disney has revealed that Rogue One will hit Digital HD on March
24 and Blu-ray on April 4th. There are a very large helping of bonus
features, but a few of the more intriguing ones include "Epilogue: The
Story Continues," which is billed as the cast and crew looking forward
to the Star Wars tales to come, and "Rogue Connections," which looks at
the film's Easter eggs.
AS WE HOPED, there also is a featurette examining the visual effects
that went into resurrecting Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin and
brought back a young Princess Leia (The late Carrie Fisher). Rogue One
earned more than $1 billion worldwide at the box office, including
$528.8 million in the U.S. The second Star Wars stand-alone movie, about
a young Han Solo, will be released in May 2018.
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Tuesday 21 February 2017
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: TOGS THREADS AND DUDS : SHARP DRESSER AND NO SCHMATTA
#TOOCOOLTUESDAY: Look around you. Today, it's all too easy to slip on a tee-shirt and a pair of joggers and go to the store. Just the other day, sitting on a train, the majority of my fellow passengers looked like they didn't have a mirror in their home! Back in the day, not so, Peter Cushing. Ok, the 1950's and 60's did have a certain class, no onesies back then. Individuals had dressers and consultants, who would purchase clothing for them, AND dress them.
BUT, NOT MR C. There are some who can wear a hat, 'You have a head for a hat' I've heard people say, or there are men who put on a suit and look a million bucks. Like Peter Cushing. Maybe it was his height, his slim build? He certainly could carry a suit very well. It wasn't always this way.
TRIVIA: PETER CUSHING was a member of the 'WAISTCOAT CLUB', which was founded in 1953, by actor Jon Pertwee. Above we see Cushing at a Waistcoat Club New Years Eve Party function.
WHEN HIS WIFE HELEN, met Peter for the first time, she though he was a tramp! 'He wore an old velvet cap, with a hole in the crown and was carrying a very heavy old kit bag, like sailors use. A jacket beyond description AND repair. A white shirt, that was spotless, but worn at the cuffs and collar, a pair of once dark corduroy trousers, most of the nap worn away from constant wear and a pair of down-at-heel shoes of grey suede. I was later to find that the shoes had holes in their soles, as large as half crowns. His woolen socks had never known the comfort of a darning needle. BUT I knew I would love him, for the rest of my days...and beyond...' Cushing's attire did certainly improve once he and Helen were married in 1943. Cushing clothing was of enough merit, i think to mention here today. And if you are wondering where this feature will archived? You'll find it in the same file, as 'Christopher Lee's wigs'! It's all good! - Marcus
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#MONSTERMONDAY: HORROR EXPRESS CREATURE IN THE CRATE!
#MONSTERMONDAY:
....So, you've decided to go on that much needed holiday / vacation and
opt for a long journey to your destination by...train. Two days in, the
food is awful, there's always queues for the rest rooms are nasty AND
blocked...and then, there's an ape like maniac loose on the train, who
is roaming around in the dark, killing everyone. You wouldn't mind so
much, but you suspect, he hasn't even
bought a TICKET! Wow. What a Monster! To be fair, the 'primitive
humanoid creature' at the center of this very popular horror film, was
quite happy having nap for 200,000 years, when it was rudely woken,
stuffed in a crate, and lobbed into a train wagon ... not even access to
the buffet car or a second class ticket! I would be stomping around,
fit to murder someone too! The choice is YOURS Monster or Victim?
'HORROR EXPRESS' was made for $300,000 (about £240,570 sterling at today
prices) though you would never know it. With a sparkling cast, headed up
by Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Telly Savalas, the story twists
and zips along like Thomas the Tank engine on sherbert meets The Walking
Dead. While often cited as being loosely borrowing it's format of 'The
Thing from Another World' (1951) . . . this film that has much more
going for it, than just that... and there is something for
everyone...monster on a train, Cushing, Lee, zombies .. and a very
humm-able theme tune, provided by John Cacavas, who also wrote the theme
to 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'.
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Monday 20 February 2017
CONGRATULATIONS: ROGUE ONE SPECIAL VISUAL EFFECTS OSCAR NOMINEE!
#MONSTERMONDAY : CONGRATULATIONS to the whole team at INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC on your OSCAR NOMINATIONS! GOOD LUCK!
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Sunday 19 February 2017
GORE AND GIBLETS : WITH THE MONSTER FROM HELL
#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING Sunday . .. I hope you have finished your lunch.... would be most interested to hear your opinions on this post. This week we have some very interesting post coming up, a FEATURE on the Dressing Rooms of Peter Cushing! Some VINTAGE Peter Cushing press on his television work of the 1960's, some RARE photographs from Cushing's THE GHOUL and others, and fingers crossed, NEWS on a new Cushiung blu ray release ! It's a full week here and at the website and youtube channel, i hope you'll pop by - Marcus
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TOTALLY TARKIN? : GO COMPARE
SPOILERS: #GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING!
'Suddenly all heads turn as Commander Tagge's speech is cut short and
the Grand Moff Tarkin, governor of the imperial outland regions, enters.
He is followed by his powerful ally,The Sith Lord, Darth Vader. All of
the generals stand and bow before the thin, evil-looking governor as he
takes his place at the head of the table. The Dark Lord stands behind
him.'
THAT IS HOW, George Lucas outlined the entrance and desciption of Peter Cushing's Grand Moff Tarkin in the script of #STARWARS
(1977) There can be few roles that Cushing played that were so ruthless
and evil, on such a grand scale? Here's a chance to see BOTH cinematic
TARKIN'S. Personally, I think we have yet to get to the point of the CGI
being flawless..but this will do for me. BOTH are quite amazing, for
different reasons. Maybe things in the industry will never be the same, I
think it's an interesting tool, and how wonderful, that this first
step on such a grand scale, will always be associated with Peter
Cushing.....
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