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
 


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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! 
 

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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

 

#SECONDSIGHT: NEW LIMITED EDITION BLU RAYS OF TWO #PETERCUSHING #HAMMERFILM CLASSICS!


NEWS: IF you don't own these TWO #Hammerfilms #PeterCushing classics OR are looking for an UPGRADE, now IS the time! #SecondSight are releasing #TheMummy starring Peter Cushing and #ChristopherLeel be and 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' in limited Edition packages, with quite fab rigid slipcase new artwork by Graham Humphreys.
 
SECOND SIGHT ARE TAKING PRE-ORDERS NOWHERE!
 


OTHER NICIES INCLUDE, soft cover book with new essays by Kat Ellinger, Lindsay Hallam and Kevin Lyons plus production stills with 5 collectors' art cards! A very nice deal indeed. Keep your eyes peeled for our PCASuk Competition, where as ever we'll be offering you our friends and followers, the chance to bag some competition goodies! All details on BOTH releases below - Marcus 
 

There are few films with characters or actors that can command such power, force, pathos and emotion the way #ChristopherLee successfully does in #Hammerfilms 1959 'The Mummy' .... and he does it with a full face mask and head to toe bandage! Hands and eyes? You bet! When he ploughs through those french windows, like a full steam head loco train, making his b-line for Peter Cushing's lame and unprepared John Banning, on first watch, you are convinced... Cushing aint going to make it!!! We all know how much Peter loved a GOOD tussle, a sword fight, a strangle, throttle and swipe and we also know just how real and convincing these scenes looked in past 'set-to's'.... the 1958 #Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein, I Monster in 1971 and Dracula AD 1972.. what a prologue indeed! Lee's character Kharis, is on a mission, under a spell, like pounding wave one moment then tender with grace, the next. It's a sad climax, a touching love story all in one. Director Terence Fisher, knew his craft and this is another of his golden Hammer films. Perfect cast, that chemistry, believable sets and beautiful score, makes The Mummy one of Hammer's most popular features... a blu ray remaster, looking like a feature made with several million and a must for any collection - Marcus
 
THE MUMMY SPECIAL FEATURES:
* Main feature presented in original UK theatrical aspect ratio 1.66:1 and alternative full frame1.37:1
*New audio commentary by film academic Kelly RobinsonArchive audio commentary by Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby
*An Appreciation of The Mummy by David Huckvale
'The Music of The Mummy'
*Unwrapping The Mummy
*The House of Horror: Memories of Bray
*The Hammer Rep Company
*Original Promo Reel
Still Gallery

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Graham HumphreysSoft cover book with new essays by Kat Ellinger, Lindsay Hallam and Kevin Lyons plus production stills 5 collectors' art cards

REGION B
 

 
I know many see this as a almost not quite worthy ending to Hammer and Cushing's #Frankenstein saga... but I DO so love this film and everything about it. The pace, the pace is almost played like the knowing sadness, of saying goodbye, to a close family member or old friend. The cast is probably one of the best that James Liggat put together. Liggat cast quite a few Hammer features and went on to pull together casts for Kunbrick's 1962 Lolita, James Bond 'Dr No', Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' and The shinning in 1980. What a ensemble of experienced and amazing character actors, Mischa De La Motte as Twitch, Sydney (Captain Clegg) Bromley as Muller, Victor Woolf as Letch, Charles Lloyd Pack .. all the way from way back as Dr Seward in #Cushing and #ChristopherLee's #Dracula. John Stratton as the Asylum Director and Bernard Lee as the heart breakingly sensitve, Tarmut. So many lovely players and scenes. Maddy Smith and Shane Briant play so well, while Peter guides through a role he knew so well, still with some surprises of crazy dedication. It's cramped, it's dank and oppressive and quite grim. But so fitting. As Terence Fisher's last film, it's a tribute and testament to the many believable fairytale environments and settings he created with those amazingly talented crews.. just a few still around long enough to cast this last spell. It's well worth watching as the curtain finally drops, as the treasured, precious and cherished, take their final bow in the Hammer land of 'Frankenstein'. .. - Marcus
 
 
FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL 
SPECIAL FEATURES
*Main feature presented in original UK Theatrical aspect ratio 1.66:1 and alternative full frame1.37:1
*New audio commentary by film academic Kat Ellinger 
*Archive audio commentary by Shane Briant, Madeline Smith and Marcus Hearn
*An Appreciation of Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell by David Huckvale : The Music of Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell
*Taking Over the Asylum
*Charming Evil: Terence Fisher at Hammer
*Stills Gallery

LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS:
Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Graham Humphreys. Soft cover book with new essays by Kevin Lyons, Kelly Robinson and Emma Westwood plus production stills. 5 collectors' art cards

REGION B
 

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