Tuesday 24 October 2023

NEWS : VALERIE LEON AUCTION AND SCREENING OF 'MUMMY'S TOMB' AT BRISTOL IMAX


NEWS: Valerie Leon Auction Event with SCREENING of the Hammer films 'Blood from the Mummy's Tomb'!
 




YES, THAT Hand is crawling back again and IT and the entire movie, can be seen on the giant screen at the Bristol IMAX on Friday 27 October. What’s more, Valerie Leon will be present in person for a Q&A after the screening. There will also be an auction of more than 40 lots from her career, conducted by Bristol’s Auctioneum.




MANY OF US will no doubt note this film as a very sad event also. In the early days of its production, the casting of the character of Prof Fuchs, was played by Peter Cushing. Sadly, Peter's wife Helen, became very ill, Peter had to withdraw from production, to attend to Helen, in what be her last days, a shattering event that would change and reshape Peter's perspective and life, for the rest of his days. Actor Andrew Kerr stepped very quickly to take the role of the professor, and a very performance he gave too.
 
 
 
THIS FRIDAY sounds like a great event for fans of Valerie Leon's work, Hammer films and might also get lucky in bidding on a fine treasure of Leon Lots! . . . - marcus
 

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Monday 23 October 2023

ALL FIVE PCASUK GOODIES HALLOWEEN COMPETITIONS ARE NOW LIVE UNTIL OCTOBER 30TH


THE PCASuk OCTOBER HALLOWEEN FIVE COMPETITIONS are ALL NOW LIVE at the Peter Cushing Appreciation society Facebook Fan Page, ALL FIVE Competitions are OPEN for YOU TO ENTER until OCTOBER 30th 2023! LOTS of PRIZES UP FOR GRABS and to be WON! 
 
ALL PCASuk Competitions are OPEN to ANYONE to enter. Whoever, Wherever YOU are! Have FUN and GOOD LUCK!- marcus
 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE followed by over 38 thousand followers! 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. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, wherever, YOU are! 

Friday 20 October 2023

NEW : CHRISTOPHER LEE EPIC BIOPIC GETS BLU RAY INDICATOR POWERHOUSE TREATMENT

 
NEWS: Here's some news that should bring a SMILE to MANY #ChristopherLee fans faces! LIMITED EDITION! Courtesy of Indicator / Powerhouse! Available NOW for PRE ORDER! Powerhouse Films Ltd. is about to release a limited edition Blu-ray of JINNAH (1998) on the 22 January 2024. IF you have SEEN this film, there's lots of chatter about the film, this release and more from friends and followers, so PLEASE pop over 'share the love' and your thoughts in the post thread .. it's appreciated! - Marcus
 
Special Features:
- Dare to Dream (1997/2023, 37 mins): insightful documentary about the making of the film
- Original theatrical trailer
- Image gallery: original location photography
- New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Optional English subtitles for the Urdu soundtrack
- Limited edition exclusive 40-page booklet with a new essay on the film’s troubled production by cinema expert and film festival programmer Éric Peretti, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and film credits. - Marcus
 
"This is the most important and most personal film of Sir Christopher’s impressive career. It is also his finest performance as little-known world leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, who assumed office in 1947. The film was made over a period of ten weeks in 1997 and for one reason or another has never been shown in the English-speaking world."Douglas Dunning, close friend of Christopher Lee (1998).
 



IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE followed by over 38 thousand followers! 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. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, wherever, YOU are! 

WIN WIN WIN! IT'S FREE AND THESE GOODIES COULD BE YOURS! #ROGUEONE #TARKIN!


YOU TOO could stand the CHANCE of WINNING these prizes FOR FREE by entering the THIRD PCASuk OCTOBER 2023 COMPETION, right NOW at the Peter Cushing Appreciation Society Facebook Fan Page Uk
The Competition is OPEN to EVERYONE, wherever, whoever YOU ARE!  
 
HAVE FUN, ENJOY and GOOD LUCK!
 

IF YOU LIKE what you see here at our website, you'll love our posts at our PCAS FACEBOOK FAN PAGE followed by over 38 thousand followers! 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. PCASuk is based in the UK, but open to everyone, whoever, wherever, YOU are! 

Friday 13 October 2023

UMBRELLA OPENS UP HAMMER HORROR VOL 2 BLU BOX SET FOR JAN 2024


UMBRELLA HOME ENTERTAINMENT is an Australian company, and in their press release today, they DO NOT state if this box set release has a FIXED / LOCKED region or is REGION FREE. I will get that info for you asap! Meanwhile, IF THIS IS A UNLOCKED FREE DISCS release, it's a great opportunity for everyone who missed the UK release of this package, to get your copy!
 
ONLY available from the Umbrella web store, the Hammer Horror Vol 2. Collector's Edition includes:
 
 
Featuring custom art design :
2 double-sided A3 posters
6 x poster cards
16-page collector's booklet
Chilling, thrilling and full of killing! Prepare yourself for a second blood drenched sample slice of the legendary Hammer House of Horror.

Collected together are three sinister sixties shockers accompanied by all-new exclusive special features and a sixteen-page collector's booklet.
 

 
SHADOW OF THE CAT
NEW! Audio Commentary by author and film historian Alan Jones and Dark Side magazine publisher Allan Bryce
NEW! Author and film historian Kim Newman discusses director John Gilling
NEW! HAMMER HOUSE OF PODCAST: SHADOW OF THE CAT
Stills gallery
Trailer


NIGHT CREATURES
NEW! Audio Commentary by author and film historian Alan Jones and Dark Side magazine publisher Allan Bryce
NEW! Author and film historian Kim Newman discusses Hammer’s swashbuckler genre
NEW! HAMMER HOUSE OF PODCAST: CAPTAIN CLEGG aka NIGHT CREATURES
Stills gallery
Trailer


PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
NEW! Audio Commentary by English Gothic author Jonathan Rigby and Encyclopedia of Fantastic Film & Television editor Kevin Lyons
NEW – Author and film historian Kim Newman discusses director Terence Fisher
NEW – HAMMER HOUSE OF PODCAST: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Stills gallery
Trailer
 
Disc type: Blu-ray
No. of discs: 3
Audio format: 2.0 Mono (Dual Mono)
Format: 1080P
Languages: English
Subtitles: English HOH
Release Date: January 2024
 


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Thursday 12 October 2023

BOOBS EYES TEETH AND CHICKENS! THE LITTLE EXTRA SASS AND BRUSH WORK FROM THE PRESS AND PUBLICITY DEPT


PRESS OFFICE and PUBLICITY often did incredible and great work, promoting #PeterCushing movies. It's a TOUGH job, but if the current film that is about to be released is a bit of a dud, it's at times like these, the press office would take a little licence and ADD a few spices, half-truths and magic cogs, to the wheels of the publicity machine. Here are a just few, that turned up in some of Cushing's and Hammer movies.. oh and a MOTH from Tigon! Can you think of ANY others?? - Marcus

 






THE ONE TIME the press office 'over-egged it!' The publicity Dept commissioned poster artist Tom Chantrell to design a cinema poster for the Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, last Dracula film together. 
 

Chantrell remembered the pose of the Count he included in Hammer's 'Dracula Has Risen From The Grave' and tweaked it, to include a sacrificial rooster - cockerel in Dracula's hand! This was a little much for the British censor, who gave a No. This time, a scene with the bird, WAS actually included in the film, that was no fiction. But gutted poultry on a cinema poster was seen, as a little too much. ... how things changed!
 

FIND TOM CHANTRELL's website and posters : HERE!


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