Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skull. Show all posts

Wednesday 8 August 2018

THE ROY ASHTON AND PETER CUSHING TALES FROM THE CRYPT SECRET!


THIS WEEK'S CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY! Amazing Make up artist,  ROY ASHTON and his work with Peter Cushing, is the subject matter of our question, this week. Roy was an absolute gentleman and joined PCASUK back in the early 1980's, as an Honorary Member, along with Vincent Price, Ingrid Pitt and Amicus films producer and writer, Milton Subotsky. Over the years, Roy gave us several interviews on audio and two precious VIDEO interviews, which were shot at his home. He was a wealth of information and shared his experiences with good humour and honesty. This little nugget of info, which provides our CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY this week, comes from the last video interview. The answer will probably surprise you, as much as it surprised me! Good luck and have fun thinking this one out! ANSWER NEXT Tuesday!




AS A TRIBUTE to Roy Ashton's creation of the UNDEAD Arthur Grimsdyke, make up artist, GREG NICOTERO created a 'Grimsdyle-look-a-like' in an episode of the US tv series, 'THE WALKING DEAD' in 2017, Make up artist, RICK BAKER also created his own tribute to Ashton, last year!


BELOW: LAST WEEKS  CUSHING TUESDAY TOUGHY ANSWER



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Thursday 17 May 2018

SOME STABBING PAINS AND THE WHOLE DEADLY POINT! ITS CUSHING GIF WEDNESDAY!


THIS WEEK'S #CUSHING GIF WEDNESDAY has a certain, STABBING and SHARP point to it! A selection of GIFS from the films of PETER CUSHING, all showing some chilling END POINT! How many of these films can you name? We'll be providing the answer on NEXT WEEKS CUSHING GIF WEDNESDAY!





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Thursday 17 August 2017

THE CAPTAIN, THE MARQUIS, THE COUNT AND THE LAST DANCE GIFS AND STILLS


#SILENTBUTDEADLYWEDNESDAY! The  weekly requested selection: 'SILENT GIFS BUT VISUALLY SCREAMING!' 

Here's #VINCENTPRICE as Vampire Eramus, boogieing-on-down in 'hit-miss-that-hit-miss' 1980 fun flick, 'THE MONSTER CLUB' produced by Milton Subosky, one half of the, by then defunked Amicus films. Amicus the one time, only serious contender to the Hammer films crown. It's a little sad to see how far Milton had strayed from the track with this one, although no one..myself included , would have ever told him that. Sitting in on the set, I remember seeing the 'costumed' dancers and clientele of 'The Club' in their fancy dress costumes and joke shop rubber masks, and thinking..'Maybe it will look ok, when the film is edited?' It didn't. 


THE ONE THING the film did achieve was give the crew, many of whom had worked with Amicus, some of the cast, Vincent Price and co, a last chance to have some fun. In this shot, the sound was added later in post production. The music was playing for the dancers, the band, Price, Carradine and Frau Viking-Helmet to have that last dance before for the camera, as the credits role ...but what you didn't get to hear, was the crew and extras laughing and supporting Vincent Price and his strut! It was fun, it was the last train out, that would have even made Dr Terror smile . ..  (requested Gif for J Mahon-Potter )  


#SILENTBUTDEADLYWEDNESDAY: AS BUDGETING FOR MONSTERS GO, it's pretty neat deal and very cheap too! There was a problem that beset most of the Hammer films, though not so much at the Amicus HQ, because they didn't really do 'Monsters of the Gothic kind'. The flicks that were the money earners at Hammer, had a 'Thing', a 'Grotesque', a Frankenstein Creation, an 'Ancient and dusty Mummy'. . . .or a 'Very Hairy Oliver Reed as Leon the Werewolf'... that something took time to make, usually make up artists built it onto the actor, HOURS before sun-up, when the majority of the studio crew still hadn't turned up for work. 



ROBERT BLOCH'S CONCEPT for Amicus films, 'THE SKULL' was just what Rosenberg and Subotsky's balance sheet ordered, a Monster, a focal point of terror, that wouldn't cost a fortune to assemble or have a make up man maintain every five minutes on the studio floor, where time was money. Once the Marquis de Sade was dead, and only his Head / Skull remained to stalk and terrorise Peter Cushing's Christopher Maitland, it was a 'no brainer'. In the morning, just a little powder to the cheek-bones. No tantrums, no agents, no trouble and pop him into the box, at the end of the day. It floated on command, and every performance was good to the bone, no strings attached!! Oh no. Wait a minute  . . . . .  


#SILENTBUTDEADLYWEDNESDAY!: Peter Cushing and Milton Reid as pirate Clegg and the traitor he left for dead, tongue-less and stranded on a desert island . . . 'We Meet Again' has never been more unwelcome. Captain Clegg / Night Creatures is a joy to watch, chiefly because we are in the make believe land of pirates, excise men, yo-ho-ho-taverns and lots of swash with the buckle, the kind that Peter Cushing loved. It's plain to see he is having a ball here. It's all high drama living and dying by the sword. Milton Reid is great too as the mute heavy with a grudge. Reid despite his frame, and heavy reputation on screen, actually had a soft high pitch to his own voice! He played many small roles in Brit films, when the industry had many for the picking. There is a fascinating features all about Milton Reid elsewhere on this website, and here is a quick link to find it: HERE! 


 

#SILENTBUTDEADLYWEDNESDAY!: DESPITE ALL THE fouls deeds and murders that Peter Cushing's GUSTAV WEIL carried out in the name of a greater cause, no matter how much I hated him, his comeuppance, more than slightly cheats me of a private moment of pay back. It's a nasty death, where COUNT KARNSTEIN gets to silence nagging Gustav for good and Damien Thomas, makes it all work like clock-work.  But it doesn't sit right with me. I'll explain. Had Weil just been toppled over that balcony, fallen through the air and then had we cut away to the shocked face of long suffering wife, Kathleen Byron, that would have been fine. BUT no. 


DIRECTOR JOHNNY HOUGH, knew exactly what he was doing, when Cushing himself volunteered for that, impact fall on the top step, and the limp, lifeless slide down the remaining eight........! There is something terribly unsettling and moving about Cushing's shattered and frail frame rattling down those steps, the axe clattering before him, as his head gently lolls in that, familiar loose neck, very effective Cushing style. It wasn't a technique as such, because he came at it differently every time... it's just THIS time it looks all the more final and tragic. Cushing did a very good job as Gustav, right up to the final few feet of the last reel  . . . and that fall, of a different kind of Vampire Hunter.  



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Monday 8 May 2017

#MONSTERMONDAY: TYBURN'S LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF ETOILE


#MONSTERMONDAY: WHEN HAMMER FILMS released their one and only 'werewolf' themed film in 1961, The Curse of the Werewolf, Oliver Reed's portrayal of the cursed 'Leon' cast a very large and terrifying shadow over any attempt at that theme for a long time. Maybe it was only in 1981, with the arrival of 'An American Werewolf In London' did the 'go to' reference shift from Olly and Hammer. 


IT WASN'T AS IF there were no other lycanthropic releases until then,far from it, it's just that like many 'Monster pictures'...the film flies or fails on the performance of the actor and without doubt, the appearance and standard of the make up job. Roy Ashton, the artist behind the hammer make up on Curse, did such an amazing job, to take what had been seen sometimes as, 'an actor with a LOT of YAK hair glued to his face.... and make a convincing wolf-man creation, from latex and hair. 


#MONSTERMONDAY: Professor Paul (Peter Cushing) saying goodbye to his sliver cane from Tyburn's Legend Of The Werewolf (1975)

BOTH ASHTON and 'Legend' make up artist Graham Freeborn, favored the 'white timber-wolf' appearance...which somehow gave the man wolf a more neater, groomed and realistic appearance..a far cry from what had sometimes looked like the results of man caught in 'glue pot, freak wind, sweepings from barber shop floor' incident! David Rintoul played the unfortunate Etoile, the lycanthrope of the film's title....who until that time, had never set foot or paw in a film studio.


MORE ON LEGEND OF THE WEREWOLF : HERE!

HOW DO YOU RATE Rintoul's werewolf appearance and performance? BTW.....Back in 1978 we were the first to have interviewed David Rintoul about this role and his time with Peter Cushing and Tyburn..... I hope to share this video interview, in it's entirety when we launch the PCAS POD CASTS and on our ever expanding youtube channel later in the year...


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Monday 5 December 2016

THE FACE IN THE REAR VIEW MIRROR!


#GETTHECUSHIONITSCUSHING: Ralph Jason (Richard Greene) realises who the 'man' on the bike REALLY is! This GIF is from the 'Wish You Were Here' segment of Amicus 's Tales From The Crypt (1972). It's is a variation on W. W. Jacobs' famed old chestnut short story, "The Monkey's Paw."


TRIVIA: Peter Cushing was originally offered the part played by Richard Greene but wanted to play Grimsdyke instead!



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Thursday 4 August 2016

WEDNESDAY IS GIMME THE GIF WEDNESDAY!


WEDNESDAY'S will have a new feature here at PCASUK... It seems you pretty much like our GIFS. We try and come up with what we think you'd like to see as a GIF and it works out pretty well. Then we had an idea... what if YOU decided what would make the best Peter Cushing GIFS! So, every Wednesday is now GIMME THE GIF WEDNESDAY! You request a GIF, telling us what film, scene, sequence..and we'll dedicate that GIF to you!


SO IT'S OVER TO YOU, just post your suggestion by using our email petercushingpcas@gmail.com..ANY CUSHING film that is on VHS, DVD or blu ray, a GIF can be up to 12 secs long. If you can think of a link between Cushing and a ANY Hammer / Amicus / Horror film..we'll make those too. So, have fun and send us your requests!


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Monday 13 June 2016

MONSTERMONDAY : TALES FROM THE CRYPT : MONSTER NEIGHBOUR JAMES ELLIOTT


#‎monstermonday‬ This weeks candidate for monster Monday is James Elliot from Tales From The Crypt (1972) played by Robin Phillips proving that not all 'monsters' have to be of the supernatural kind.


ELLIOT BEGINS a campaign of hate to try and force Arthur Grimsdyke (Peter Cushing) to sell his house and move away, as he believes Grimsdyke is a blight on the neighbourhood, he pushes him to far and Grimsdyke commits suicide, however we all know that he finally gets his revenge on Elliot on Valentine's Day!

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Wednesday 11 June 2014

AHOY ME HEARTIES! SET YE TIME PIECE FOR THE WINNING OF 'CAPTAIN CLEGG' BLU RAY


AHOY ME HEARTIES! AVAST BEHIND, And all that...Get your sea legs ready, there's no time for hanging a jib, 'cause shiver me timbers, this weekend ye can grab yourselves, some real #PeterCushing #hammerfilms TREASURE, me beauties! And NO Crimping either! We've got some beautiful booty and plunder, A PAIR of fine blu ray's of the ol Captain himself..'CAPTAIN CLEGG'! Yours for WINNING! Still in their wraps they be and hot from the scallywags at Final Cut Entertainment. 

Join us for some grog, a tankard of Nelson's Folly, on the good lord's day, THIS SUNDAY 15th JUNE....and try thee luck at nabbing a copy for yourself in our competition. We'll be pulling out the bung hole and making much merriment, in celebration of  the ol' Captain. So, all hands on deck and get ye coxswain to steer ye a path, to our landing party here. All rapscallions and 'Brethren Of The Coast', most welcome. Be seeing ye, me handsomes..... AYE!

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