Tuesday 8 November 2022

#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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Saturday 29 October 2022

#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
 


IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll  love our daily themed posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE.  Just click that blue LINK and click LIKE when you get there, and help us . . Keep The Memory Alive!. The Peter Cushing Appreciation Society website, facebook fan page and youtube channel are managed, edited and written by Marcus Brooks, PCAS co-ordinator since 1979. PCAS is based in the UK and USA  

Tuesday 25 October 2022

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! 
 

YOU ARE MOST WELCOME TO JOIN US and over 34,000 others Peter Cushing followers at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE! With posts every day, rare images and photographs, features and prize competitions.. all celebrating the LIFE and CAREER of Peter Cushing  OBE 

Tuesday 11 October 2022

FOUR FULL COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES FROM #HAMMERFILMS '#SCARSOFDRACULA'

have shared some large scans of #ChristopherLee from #Hammerfilms 'SCARS OF DRACULA'! These were requested to the page, so we cleaned and polished a delivered! Not a #PeterCushing Hammer film sadly, and quite a poor movie sadly, impo. This is our first post in several months, as I got a little tired of spending hours on designing and making posts, that for quite sometime, were being hidden by 'our masters' #Google. So, stopped for a while and dealt with the mess that is #facebook and all their losing and hiding posts from followers instead. At least, with 35k followers, you stand a little better chance of being seen one out of three posts! Anyway, onward, back to the mill. More posts to come here! - Marcus  
 




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Wednesday 22 June 2022

WIN #STUDIOCANAL 'DR WHO AND THE DALEKS' 4K BLU RAY COLLECTORS SPECIAL EDITION TODAY!


MANY THANKS to Studio Canal for sponsoring one of our PCASuk Competitions today! Here is YOUR chance to WIN a copy of this 4K out of this world, SPECIAL COLLECTOR EDITION restoration BLU RAY release #DrWhoandtheDaleks' (1965), starring Peter Cushing as Dr Who with a supporting cast of Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey and Roy Castle. This was the first big screen film adaptation of British TV’s most iconic sci-fi hero, and the first time the #Daleks were ever seen in colour! 
 
THE PLOT: Having invented the TARDIS, a strange machine capable of travelling into other dimensions, the Dr. and his three young accomplices set forth on a quest through time and space. Their journey takes them into the dark, undiscovered depths of the universe and to the planet of Skaro, a primitive world devastated by nuclear war and populated by two warring species, a peaceful tribe known as Thals and a life form heavily mutated by radiation, encased in protective machines, merciless force of destruction known as The Daleks!
 
THE PRIZE:
We have ONE copy 'DR WHO AND THE DALEKS' Special Collectors Edition 4K Blu Ray up for grabs. Dr Who and the Daleks has enjoyed several home releases over the years, Studio Canal has worked it's magic in not only presenting the film restored and remastered, but now for the first time in ultra high-definition 4K. ‘Dr Who and the Daleks’, looks brighter, more colourful and sharper than ever before! 
 
THE STUNNING 1960s vintage-style cover artwork by Johnny Dombrowski packages ‘Dr Who and the Daleks’ very attractively for fans. A collector’s edition also includes a booklet. There are several exciting extra features on the disc. ‘The Dalek Legacy: Destination Skaro’ is sixteen minutes in length and sees modern-day voice of the Daleks Nicholas Briggs and other ‘Doctor Who’ luminaries putting the legacy of the 1960s films into context within the wider world of ‘Doctor Who’. ‘Restoring Dr Who in 4K’ is an eleven-minute instalment about how the original film elements have been digitally enhanced for this restoration.  
 
THE DISC ALSO boasts the documentary ‘Dalekmania, filmed in the mid-1990s, which covers both films and features some of the then-surviving cast and crew from both films and explores the possible reasons for the overwhelming popularity of the Daleks. Of particular interest are the stories of Jill Curzon and Roberta Tovey, guest actors Barrie Ingham and Yvonne Antrobus; as well as Eddie Powell, a stuntman whose involvement in the second film left him with a broken ankle. Pinewood Studios expert and Roger Moore’s former right-hand man Gareth Owen is also available to impart his knowledge of the film’s origins. An audio commentary featuring film critic Kim Newman in conversation with ‘Doctor Who’ writers Robert Shearman and Mark Gatiss takes you all the way through the film with affectionate insights. A separate audio track reunites companions Jennie Linden (Barbara) and Roberta Tovey (Susan).
 
ALL YOU HAVE TO DO!
As with all PCASuk Competitions, this competition is OPEN TO EVERYONE! Whoever you are, Wherever you are!  All YOU have to do is ANSWER our simple competition QUESTION and send us your answer, ONLY USING the facebook BLUE MESSAGE BUTTON at the TOP of the FAN PAGE, UNDER our PCASuk banner! HERE! Any answers or clues posted in the comments thread, will be deleted, the entry made void... and we'll send some Daleks around to your home!
 
THE COMPETITION QUESTION:
NOT including PETER CUSHING, only ONE CAST MEMBER appeared in BOTH 'Dr Who and the Daleks' and it's SEQUEL 'Daleks Invasion  Earth 2150 AD'. NAME that cast member!
 
This PCASuk Competition CLOSES on SATURDAY JULY 2nd 2022 at midnight GMT. No entries will be taken after this time and date.
 
Many thanks to Studio Canal and GOOD LUCK EVERYONE! - Marcus

 

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