#RENFIELD AND #NICOLASCAGE IN FULL DRACULA COSTUME AND MAKE UP PLUS KING OF POSTER ART TOM CHANTRELL DOCUMENTARY

QUITE THE SHARING of opinions and comments at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page today! 'Is that Nicolas Gage? 'Dark Shadows2?' 'This is going to be ****' and 'I'll reserve, until seen!'  I am game to see this next year, of course. My only grumble is, there is no #VanHelsing role in the plot! Missed opportunity or maybe not.....

 

 

AN OPINION SHARED AT THE PAGE TODAY . .
'NICOLAS PAGE does slightly resemble CHRISTOPHER LEE! 

This could work!' 

 

'At the PCASuk Page: 'You have no doubt seen this on set pic doing the rounds, these last few days and I have left it til now to post and share here... so you had time, to suck it and think... Who knows? As the late great scriptwriter, William Goldman once said.... in his superb read ' Adventures in the Screen Trade'... “Nobody knows anything...... Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work. Every time out it's a guess and, if you're lucky, an educated one.” ....The film is scheduled to be released on April 14, 2023, by Universal Pictures. - Marcus

 

UPDATE:  Never slow on the uptake and an opportunity, the #FanArt world gives us, the #NicCage #Dracula figure! 24.03.22

 

ALSO SHARED at the today: 'IF you have never heard of Tom Chantrell or Tom Chan.. if you want his real name ... then don't despair because you probably would have seen one, maybe two or more of his unique style and artistry in thousands of cinema posters over a 40 year plus career... THE Star Wars cinema post or the 'C poster' as it known, is one of his best, along with many #Hammerfilms and #Amicusfilms for #PeterCushing, #christopherLee.. he was THE poster artist with such a unique style and produced beautiful work that now sells in no small figures these days. Top marks to #ConvexFilmsUK for what is a very detailed and affectionate documentary. 

 

MANY OF Tom Chantrell's paste up and work in progress looked better than some cinema poster artist's finished work! Tom was a professional, even his draughts were quite something! As Tom only often had the smallest of briefings about the film's story... I wonder if ALL of the figures, with the exception of #ChristopherLee's Creation from 'Curse of Frankenstein' .. were from Tom's imagination OR were some of these elements in a synopsis or briefing that Hammer gave him?? 'crowds of hooded monk like characters'? If so, it might give us some understanding to the OTT title of 'Destroyed' Strap line: 'A search for the power of evil, releases uncontrollable forces on the WORLD' sounds like a little bigger than Veronica Carlson's Anna's home and a basement lab? You think?

 

 

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PUZZLE OF THE #DRACULA SCENE AND PHOTOGRAPH WITH THE FEMALE FACE THAT WON'T RING A BELL

A COOL AND LARGE scan of a publicity still, capturing a set up with #Dracula included, in scene he never appeared in.. looking like he too is confused why and how the young gal, ended up in such a large clanger! This untrimmed still, with a lovely base studio light just to the left of #ChristopherLee sadly doesn't shed any much needed light on the 'how did she get up there?' problem. 

 

THIS STILL, IS OF COURSE from a film that didn't feature #PeterCushing, though I wish it had, 'Dracula Has Risen from the Grave' (1968). Cast included Rupert Davies, Barbara Ewing, Barry Andrews and the recently passed, #VeronicaCarlson. I guess the curious still and set up, did the job that the press and publicity office intended for the film, because here we are some 54 years later, still talking about it!

 

ALTHOUGH I know, Risen is one of many Hammer supporters favourite Dracula film,  . . .after 'Dracula 58 of course.... Risen isn't personally one of my favs. It's seems like it was made by 'committee'.. too many dabblings in story, weird 'tea-stain' filter photography and even stranger mapping of what we see on the screen. Fate, gravity and the chance landing of a thrown object, puts pay to Dracula, when he also chance falls from the balcony, onto THE iron crucifix, that we have just seen land... UNDER said balcony.. to then shift for the sake of Freddie's art, in an ending set up title shot, where the cross is actually some quarter of a mile away from the castle balcony, is just silly. Yeah, it's an iconic montage of symbolism.. before the film was actually iconic, at lest they sort of got the geography just about right when Roy Kinnear looked up on flayling Count, in the prologue of 'Taste the Blood of Dracula' It's interesting because I guess they had no intention of including Lee in the filmed scene, because Dracula was at this point was still 'resting' and dead.. even though Lee was there, the day the bell prologue scene was shot ... UNLESS they stuffed her back into the bell for this pic?? I think this really was just a publicity cover, as was their want and habit to put 'the monster in any posed opportunity, with any beauty in the cast for a pic for publicity ..maybe' . 

 

THINK OF THAT  still from 'Curse of the Werewolf', Reed's adult character, Leon in costume with actress Yvonne Romain, who played his mother.. and died in child-birth. It's like the press and distributor office had an anything goes attitude to their titles of movies too... 'Brides of Dracula' er nope, Scars of Dracula?? Maybe, but that's MORE than scars? And the OTT of 'Frankenstein Must be Destroyed'.. that's not stopped, murdered or paused, but Destroyed! 😖😆.. OTT or what? - marcus

 

LOTS MORE ON THE PUZZLE OF THIS PHOTOGRAPH, and that scene that as the prologue of the film, which has puzzled #Hammerfilmfans  at the Facebook PCASuk Fan Page today HERE!

 

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PETER THE GREAT : RARE 'ALEXANDER' 1955 STILLS

TWO RARE STILLS TWO of  #PeterCushing as General Memnon in 'Alexander the Great' (1955) Cushing recalls hi working on 'Alexander' in his second autobiography, 'Past Forgetting' 'As the Athenian General Memnon... having taken a fond farewell of my wife, played by Clare Bloom. I rode a horse, bareback, to be slaughtered in the battle of Granicus, by #RichardBurton's legions!!!'

 

CUSHING'S quite athletic frame severed him well in this film, as he must have had quite a physical ability and stamina, for those retakes! Peter often when asked about his horse riding ability would jest and say he 'took those scenes at my peril' but one can see, he was quite an established natural rider, even when riding bareback. Peter Cushing's placing in what was quite an international cast was a big boost to his film career. 

 

THERE IS NO DOUBT, he was a gaining quite a presence, having performed excellently in 'The End of the Affair' and winning several Best Actor Awards for his television work.. in a time, he was often to be found either on tv or BBC radio dramas. As proof, in addition to 'Alexander the Great', Cushing had been very busy during 1954 and 55 on television appearing in 'Richard of Bordeaux ' 'The Browning Version' 'The Moment' and #Nigel Kneals' 'The Creature' .. later to be produced as a film adaption in 1957 for #Hammerfilms 'The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas' with Cushing starring with Forest Tucker. - Marcus 

 

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