Showing posts with label the house that dripped blood. Show all posts
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Friday 3 January 2020

LUCKY WINNER OF SECOND SIGHT FILMS HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' COMPETITION REVEALED!


CONGRATULATIONS ROXANNE The ANSWER to this competition was C) WAXWORKS! Hmm we had some very interesting answers though, so for some not that easy Many thank s to all of you who entered and of course to our very supportive sponsor, SECOND SIGHT FILMS. YOU read our PCAS feature and review of this release RIGHT HERE! 



YOU CAN ORDER YOUR COPY of Second Sight Films REMASTERED BLU RAY of Amicus films, 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' DIRECTLY  HERE!

Sunday 29 December 2019

LIVE! ANOTHER TWO CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS : YOUR XMAS CHANCE TO BAG GREAT PRIZES HERE!


PCASUK #CHRISTMAS #COMPETITION 2#! HERE IS YOUR CHANCE to bag a copy of SECOND SIGHTS FILMS excellent BLU RAY release of the 1972 Cushing / Amicus Classic '#ASYLUM'. We gave away quite a few of these as FAB prizes a few weeks ago, thanks again to SECOND SIGHT! If you missed out, here is another chance! 

THIS COMPETITION, is now LIVE HERE at the Facebook PCAS Fan Page and  like ALL our competitions is open to anyone, everyone, wherever you are Have fun, biut you can ONLY ENTER at our Facebook Fan Page. Good Luck and many thanks to SECOND SIGHT FILMS for their support with this and our other competitions this week  

SECOND SIGHT FILMS WILL RELEASE this BLU RAY on January 6th 2020, and you can place YOUR ORDER for your copy, right now at their website, RIGHTHERE!

THIS COMPETITION ENDS and CLOSES on Wednesday 1st January 2020 MIDNIGHT GMT. WINNING ENTRY REVEALED Thursday 2nd January 2020!
MERRY CHRISTMAS and GOOD LUCK!! - Marcus




YOU CAN READ OUR PCAS review of the Second Sight Films BLU RAY release, RIGHT HERE!


HERE AS PROMISED... here is the 4th PCAS #Christmas Competition, LIVE RIGHT NOW HERE at the Facebook PCAS Fan Page! You can ONLY ENTER at our Facebbok Fan Page!There are a few more to come, up until New Years Day. Good luck with this one too! Please read the details on the #Competition Banner..


CHECK OUT OUR PCASUK REVIEW of Second sights Films BLU RAY release of THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' for yourself! RIGHT HERE!

IF YOU want to order your own copy of Second Sight Films blu ray of Amicus films, 'The House That Dripped Blood' starring #PeterCushing, #ChristopherLee, #JonPertwee, #IngridPitt and many others... it's released on January 6th 2020, and you can place your order directly at their site HERE!

MANY THANKS to the team at #SecondSightFilms for sponsoring our competitions . . . i Hope you are all having a Smashing Festival holiday Good Luck! - Marcus

Wednesday 31 July 2019

WHAT WERE YOUR FIRST AND EARLIEST PURCHASES OR FINDS??


OVER AT THE FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE THIS POST is gaining a fair bit of attention! REMEMBER WHEN??? 😉 Here's a great question from follower Dan Barrett which he posted to us a few days ago! Here Dan's QUESTION: What are your earliest Peter Cushing discoveries? One childhood memory I have is of heading into my local Woolworths and finding this absolute gem in a bargain bin of vhs tapes: The Uncanny. Despite the 18 rating and being substantially under age, I managed to buy it unchallenged. I think I watched it, practically, until I wore the tape out. Cushing is brilliant as the terrified and fidgety eccentric author Wilbur Gray and there's a cracking performance from the wonderful Joan Greenwood. Wilfred Josephs' score is brilliant too (he composed music for The Prisoner and, although his theme tune was rejected in favour of Ron Grainer's, lots of his quirky score is used throughout the series). The Uncanny kicked off my love of Peter Cushing and portmanteau horror movies. IF YOU would like to join in the chat, just click that BLUE LINK at the top of this text!
 

ABOVE A FACEBOOK UPDATE ON OUR LAST PCASUK COMPETITION! We will be posting a FULL REVIEW along with SCREEN CAPS on the TWO SECIOND SIGHT FILMS AMICUS BLU RAYS featured here as prizes, ASYLUM and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' VERY SOON!



Sunday 30 June 2019

FOUR PRIZES! THE ENTRIES ARE IN AND THE WINNERS WILL ANNOUNCED TODAY!


OUR FINAL and very popular #SecondSightFilms / PCASUK Competition closed last night at midnight GMT. All entries are now in and the FOUR LUCKY WINNERS names will be announced HERE and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE TODAY! We'll be publishing a full review of both Second Sight Amicus Films Limited Edition Blu Ray releases this THURSDAY at the website, a long with screen captures and GIFS. The response to both these competitions has been extremely positive. You can pre-order both 'The House That Dripped Blood' and 'Asylum' from #SecondSightFilms now, while stocks last HERE!. This is a limited edition release and the addition extras on 'House' make these two Cushing and Lee #Amicusfilms, a very worthy addition to any collection. You'll be pleased to hear the quality of both films make these particular releases, the new benchmark if you are wanting to purchase these TWO titles 😀 Meanwhile, sit tight . . . YOU could be a #WINNER - Marcus


ABOVE: MEANWHILE, you might wanna be around on Friday, for this weeks PCASUK #FRANKENSTEINFRIDAY!

Saturday 15 June 2019

HEADS UP UP ON PRIZES THAT DRIPPED BLOOD AND REMEMBERING SANDOR ELES


REMEMBERED: TODAY WE REMEMBER Hungarian born actor SANDOR ELES…. Known for a lot of work on TV he guest starred in shows such as The Saint, One Step Beyond, The Avengers, Danger Man and a regular role in the UK Soap 'Crossroads'. Eles did a lot of good and interesting work, given the chance. He made appearances in The Avengers, The Professionals Strange Report and Upstairs, Downstairs. One of his most memorable film roles was as the mysterious Paul in the Brian Clemens thriller 'And Soon the Darkness' in 1970. The screenplay was written by Brian Clemens and Terry Nation, both of whom had contributed to The Avengers, as well as to several ITC crime series made in Britain. The film was directed by Robert Fuest.


ABOVE: You can read more about SANDOR ELES and his work in #Hammerfilms 'The Evil of Frankenstein' in a feature written for PCAS by Troy Howath, at the time of it's first time release on blu ray from Final Cut. It's complete with a gallery of great publicity stills rarely seen form the PCAS archive RIGHT HERE!


ELES CO STARRED with #PeterCushing in #Hammerfilms third Frankenstein film,  'The Evil Of Frankenstein' and presented a quite different style of Baron's assistant. Sympathetic and sensitive to the Baron's plight and dedication to his work, it was an angle that didn't arrive again until Shane Briant's excellent portrayal of Simon in 'Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell' from Hammer films in 1974. 


ABOVE IS A PHOTOGRAPH is a still I thought Frankenstein and Hammer fans would appreciate! It's a never before shared or published studio photographer still during the making of the Peter Cushing and Sandor Eles Hammer films 'The Evil of Frankenstein' in 1963 at Bray studios. Cushing and Eles can be seen at the back of the marquee tent, with their mask disguises, but note the top of the still. It just shows how LOW in height the back lot buildings were at Bray studios. The lighting, the rigging and boom microphone is just a few feet from the actors heads!!! 


ELES WAS IN MANY WAYS a jobbing actor, but capable of so much more, just watching his work as Paul Ross in the UK low budget, but extremely popular almost daily soap opera, 'Crossroads' from 1982 until 1985, he gave more than any of the scripts required. A guest role as himself in the film 'Surviving Picasso' 1996, is a raw and sad exit, for an highly skilled actor, who when given the chance on screen or stage, was anyone but himself....

SANDOR ELES, sadly died on September 4th 2002, in Kilburn, London. He was just 66 years old . .   


A HEADS UP and what many of you have been waiting for! The PCASUK and SECOND SIGHT FILMS COMPETITION kicks off TOMORROW -Sunday 16th June 2019 HERE and at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE. There are FOUR COPIES of the SECOND SIGHT FILMS REMASTERED BLU RAY of Amicus films, 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Jon Pertwee and Ingrid Pitt up for grabs and MUST be won! Look out for our PCASUK COMPETITION post tomorrow, and make sure to send us YOUR ENTRY! NEXT WEEK we'll be launching ANOTHER PCASUK Competition where FOUR COPIES of Amicus films, ASYLUM BLU RAY will be up for grabs too! Here's your chance to bag some great prizes TOMORROW! Are YOU up for it??

Sunday 14 April 2019

NEWS: TWO AMICUS HORRORS COME TO BLU RAY IN UK


NEWS: More good news Amicus's THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD and ASYLUM both starring #PeterCushing and a whole HOST of British Horror amicus stars are AT LAST coming to blu-ray in the UK from Second Sight Films. MORE NEWS when we get it! At the moment, no NEWS on EXTRAS or a RELEASE DATE. STAY TUNE!


OUR PCAS FEATURES AND GALLERY ON THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD HERE!




OUR PCAS GALLERY AND FEATURE ON AMICUS FILMS ASYLUM  along with Cushing's performance and working with old friend actor BARRY MORSE and others CAN BE RIGHT HERE!


#thehousethatdrippedblood #amicusfilms #petercushing #bluray #news #christopherlee #asylum

Friday 22 December 2017

DIRECTOR PETER DUFFELL DIES AGED 95


VERY SAD to hear that director Peter Duffell has died. Duffell worked with Peter Cushing on amicus films, 'The House That Dripped Blood' (1971) it was a title Duffell hated, because there is no blood in the movie! 

In 2011, he published his entertaining autobiography, Playing Piano in a Brothel: Memoirs of a Film Director, in the preface of which Christopher Lee described him as “the most underrated director we have had in Britain for a very long time”.

Duffell proved that he was a dab hand at the horror genre, brilliantly using all the elements of the macabre – creepy sound, striking camera angles, a skillful buildup of tension, black humour and performances just the right side of ham by a cast that included Ingrid Pitt, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Denholm Elliott and Jon Pertwee. Peter Duffell was born 10th December 1922, he was 95.


Director Peter Duffell and Peter Cushing on location during the shooting of 'The House That Dripped Blood' (1971)

 



MORE ON Peter Duffell and 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' HERE!  


AND IN THIS FEATURE ABOVE : HERE! 


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Monday 10 October 2016

RATE THE CLIP: #GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING : NIGHTMARE IN THE WAX WORKS



#GRABTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING... OK here is the first of our SUNDAY posts under our new theme looking at some of the most frightening and effect Peter Cushing Fright Scenes.... This week it's a clip Don't forget to click HD) from that iconic NIGHTMARE scene from Amicus's The House That Dripped Blood (1971)...we'll be taking a closer look at the scene and direction in our next post coming up...DOES THIS scene rate in your FAV CUSHING terror scenes??? #grabthecushingitscushing


THE 1971 AMICUS FILM, 'THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD' came at a difficult time for Peter Cushing... it couldn't have came at a worse time! The production started shooting from June 29th at a studio knew very well, Shepperton. At this time, Cushing's wife Helen was experiencing a deterioration in her health, because of this Cushing had tried to get the suits at Amicus, to release him from the contract and schedule from 'House'. While Hammer films had been sympathetic, and released him from his contract and appearance in their latest installment  of their Karnstein trilogy , 'Lust For A Vampire' . Cushing Had appeared in the  first part, 'THE VAMPIRE LOVERS'  and the last, 'TWINS OF EVIL' But, sadly Amicus dig in their heels, with Cushing having no choice but to for-fill his contractual obligations. 'House' followed, what was the resurrection of of a format that had severed Amicus very well in their 1965 film, 'Dr Terrors House of Horrors'. What took them so long to revist the portmanteau set up, with only ONE multiple story film after 'Dr Terrors' - Torture Garden (1967), with almost everything in that gap of eight years being a box office dud, one can only guess.


CUSHING SEGMENT IN 'HOUSE', centered around a WAX WORKS, in a story with the same name. Cushing played a retired stockbrooker named Phillip Grayson who along with Neville Rogers, played Joss Ackland.. becomes obsessed with the wax figure of biblical nightmare, SALOME! Yes, she who demanded the head of one, John The Baptist, on a plate . . . so you can see where this is going!


THE ACTUAL NIGHTMARE sequence in Cushing's tale, for me the the high point of the film. If you forgive the corny mishmash of music accompanying the scene, full of clanging death bells and Swanee whistles, and some quite tatty wax figures... it is really quiet effective. I know the museum is supposed to look like it had hit on hard times, but the last time I saw figures as bad as that, was as a child, in the wax museum at Weston-Super-Mare! The scene builds up the tension and in real time,  from Cushing's exit OUT of the front door, of his newly acquired property, the titular, House That Dripped Blood, and into the interior of the waxworks he has recently visited. The camera, sets about through a series of dutch tilts, slow motion and back tracking, purposely in front of Cushing, to take in all his looks of bewilderment and horror.....
 



AND WE KNOW FOLLOW CUSHING, past the figures, and to an curtained exhibit at the rear of the wax works. What makes this scene so chilling is Cushing's character's longing to reach the point of attraction...and its that fact that provides the 'grab the cushion moment'! We REALLY don't want him to get there, and reveal what is BEHIND those curtains. It's a NIGHTMARE, and is the stuff of OUR nightmares too, all accuratarely replicated in a scene that gets the the pay off it style. Yes, it's pretty tame by today's standards, but I can remember hiding behind that cushion, and being truly spooked. Spooked enough to not go into a wax works, until well into my adult years!



THERE IS ANOTHER REASON WHY this clip has earned this title of 'A NIGHTMARE IN THE WORKS'  . . .  as I have shared, even before Cushing commenced work on this film, the signs were not good, and the clouds of sadness not only loomed in Cushing's life away from the spotlight, but it also hung heavy over the story he was appearing in. As David Miller recalls in his book, 'A LIFE IN FILM: Peter Cushing', 'The most affecting part of The House That Dripped Blood' are the shots of Cushing, standing on a riverbank, lost in the grief for his lost love. It is difficult not to think that he was in some way anticipating the unendurable - Helen's death.'

For Peter Cushing, it would be a true and lasting nightmare . . . 



OUR FULL FEATURE AND GALLERY ON 'The House That Dripped Blood' in PART THREE of our AMICUS SERIES can be found at our website : RIGHT HERE
 


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