Showing posts with label dracula ad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dracula ad. Show all posts

Thursday 9 July 2020

HAIR RAISING ISSUES WITH DRACULA : VINCENT PRICE INTERVIEW 1986 : A THROWBACK-THROWING BACK?


#CHRISTOPHERLEE We HAM and EGGED it!' Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee in TWO rare photographs . .Lee here sharing thoughts on his work and long friendship with Peter Cushing . . .


#VincentPrice YESTERDAY, over at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE I shared  a lovely interview with Vincent Price in 1986, rebroadcast in 1993. ..as ever, charming, entertaining and funny 😊 'Madhouse' and 'House of the Long Shadows' were Peter Cushing appeared with Vincent Price, I think are a joy to watch them together! I hope you enjoy THIS INTERVIEW too 😉

 
#THROWBACKTHURSDAY: THROW YOUR MIND BACK about three years ago..... and the rare photograph I posted you can see on the RIGHT. It's an image of writer Chris Knight from Cinefantastque 'behind the scenes' at Elstree Studios, during the making of 'Dracula AD 1972', with Christopher Lee. The photograph, an exposure on a contact sheet from photographer and good friend of Christopher Lee's, Peter Nicolson, wasn't actually titled or labelled. But it looked pretty obvious to me and several others, that this was taken, during the shooting of AD. Nicolson took several amazing behind the scenes shots during filming, some were used in a feature on AD in volume 2 number 2, of Cinefantastique . . an issue until recently, I have never seen before until just a few days ago. Some thought on the Facebook PCASUK Fan Page it was taken during the making of 'Taste the Blood of Dracula'... why not slip along to the page and tell us, what you think? - Marcus


MORE ON THIS ABOVE : RIGHT HERE! 

Wednesday 16 January 2019

ACTRESS AND HAMMER GLAMOUR GIRL CAROLINE MUNRO CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY TODAY!


PLEASE JOIN US in wishing actress CAROLINE MUNRO a VERY Happy Birthday today! A wonderful actress and an absolute sweety! Her Peter Cushing connection is of course her appearance in Hammer films Dracula AD 1972' in which Peter Cushing played Van Helsing and her co starring role in Amicus films 'At The Earth's Core' with Peter Cushing and Doug McClure. I know of no one who works harder on the convention circuit to make meeting her a special event! Many Happy Returns and Have Smashing Day, Caroline!


CAROLINE was made a PCAS FRIDAY FEMME FATALE back a few months ago!! HERE is the link to our MUNRO DRACULA AD 1972 GALLERY : HERE!







Wednesday 21 November 2018

WIN SIGNED COLLECTABLE RARE CHRISTOPHER LEE FRAMED PORTRAIT : OUR LAST WARNER BROTHERS DRACULA AD COMPETITION


AND SO... HERE WE GO: The last of our competitions celebrating Warner Brothers release of two fantastic remastered blu rays Hammer films, 'Dracula AD 1972' and 'The Satanic Rites Of Dracula' both starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee It's a rare and collectable prize and a competition that's little more fun maybe. The first of the five questions will arrive here today, with four more to follow, one a day, until the FINAL QUESTION on Saturday 24th November at midnight GMT. If you have any questions about the competition, the prize or what to have for dinner this evening, please don;t hesistate hesitate to email us HERE!


ABOVE is our FIRST QUESTION of FIVE, that will be posted here over the next FIVE DAYS, the final question, question FIVE on Saturday 24th when the competition closes at midnight GMT. Answer this question, keep your answer SAFE, because come Saturday, you'll be asked to send ALL five of your answers by EMAIL to us here at PCASUK! PLEASE do not post your answer to us today OR message them in the website message box. Question TWO will be posted here on the website TOMORROW 🙂 The prize, as you probably know by now, is a rare and collectable colour autographed frame photograph of Christopher Lee from 'Dracula AD 1972'. It's in mint condition, one of two that I personally own. The framed photograph was donated by Hammer Art back in 2011. It was signed in 2012, along with another exact version of what was being signed. Today is the day, I am giving one away as a prize😀 The frame with the photograph is 20 x 14.5″ in size, printed on Hahnemuhle German Etching Paper 315gsm and was one of ONLY TEN in a limited edition. You can also if you wish, chat and enter the competition at the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE Meanwhile, have fun with this and GOOD LUCK Everyone! 😊 - Marcus

Saturday 17 November 2018

ARE YOU A WINNER IN OUR WARNER BROTHERS DRACULA AD BLU RAY COMPETITON??


MANY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS of our Warner Brothers Dracula AD 1972 Remastered Blu Ray Competition! It was another VERY popular competition. MANY thanks to everyone who took part and to our generous competiton sponsors Warner Brothers 🙂 The FIVE winners of our Warner Brothers remastered blu ray of The Satanic Rites of Dracula, will be posted HERE on TUESDAY 20th November. TOMORROW we launch the last of our THREE Peter Cushing Dracula competitons! DO join us 🙂 - Marcus

Thursday 1 November 2018

WARNER BROTHERS 'SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA' REMASTERED SECOND PCASUK HALLOWEEN COMPETITION NOW CLOSED : WINNERS TO BE ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 18TH


HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Here is our SECOND PCAS Halloween Competition. Last night, we launched our first with prizes of Warner Brothers Collective Archive release of Hammer films, 'Dracula AD 1972' REMASTERED blu ray! The competition is still live and doesn't close until November 14th! Now we have another remastered Warner Brothers Hammer Dracula film, starring again, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing : 'The Satanic Rites of Dracula'. The last time Cushing and Lee fought as Van Helsing and The Count! Warner has been very generous in also sponsoring this competition and we have FIVE COPIES to give away as prizes!


ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, is answer our competition question, send you answer to us ONLY using our Facebook Message, please. Any answers posted on this post, will be deleted and made void. Lots of luck everyone! It's a SUPERB remastering of a classic and quite different Hammer film, and Lee and Cushing REALLY do their thing! I hope you are having a great Halloween, Good Luck and have fun! - Marcus

THE WARNER BROTHERS Archive Collection release of The Satanic Rites of Dracula will go on release from NOVEMBER 13th 2018. You can palce your order HERE!







ALL PCAS COMPETITIONS are open to everyone, whoever and wherever YOU are! CLICK HERE for the above Warner Brothers / Hammer films DRACULA AD 1972 blu ray COMPETITION! If you want to enter at The FACEBOOK PCAS FAN PAGE, that version of the competition is HERE!

Sunday 21 October 2018

WHEN SATANIC GOT A BAD AND MANIC RE EDIT!


HAMMER FILMS 'THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA', narrowly missed being landed with the crass title of ' Dracula is Dead...and Well and Living in London' when shootinmg began in November 1972. When the film was distributed in 1979 by Dynamite Films in a heavily edited version, the curse of having bad title came back to haunt it, when it was released as 'Count Dracula and His Vampire Bride' The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, was also released and stamped in the US by Dynamite Films in 1979 in a heavily edited version as 'The 7 Brothers Meet Dracula', and was alternately known on the US trailer as The 7 Brothers and their One Sister Meet Dracula. Subtle? Hardly... Christopher Lee was never comforatble with the dragging of his rep and the Count into 1970's London, and 'jumping on a Number 21 red double decker bus, to Battersea' Thankfully, it never got to that point and did quite well. But these titles almost pushed it past that point...



INTERESTINGLY, Dynamite Films was owned by Max Rosenberg, the one time, one half of the Amicus films partnership, with Milton Subotsky. Throughout the 60's and 70's, Amicus were sometimes seen as Hammer's competition, though they never pulled the box office receipts that the Hammer House of Horror pulled. Although Tales from the Crypt did VERY well. How ironic, that Rosenberg would one day be distributing his own 'hack edit' job of Hammer's two final vampire films!



Tuesday 16 October 2018

NEWS: DRACULA RESSURECTED AND LOOKING AMAZING ON WARNER BROTHERS REMASTERED BLU RAY


NEWS: TOMORROW IT ARRIVES! WARNER BROTHERS REMASTEDED BLU RAY RELEASE of Hammer films DRACULA AD 1972 is available FROM TOMORROW 16TH OCTOBER on AMAZON. If you are one of the few followers of Peter Cushing;s work or a fab of Hammer films and have never had the chance to see this film, and know little, brace yourself for opinions and reviews about the filma dnthis release, that will run the whole gumit from A to Z. Hammer Dracula fans tend to dislike like everything about it, while those of us, who maybe grew up in the 1970's see this as a nostalgic connection, to world and era that is usally based in the 18 or 19 hundreds! ASs a teenager in the 70's, I too wasn't a fan of the film. But then, I grew up and could then appreciate the humour and subtiies of the plot and the style of teh film. Now, it's one of my all time favs of Hammer films and the fantasy output of Cushing's and Lee's careers. For those who sadly wrestle and still have sleepless nights and can't recover or relate to the end title shot in DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE, (Why is that castle blaconey so FAR WAY from the brass cross that Dracula fell onto? Why oh why oh why???) the REMASTERING and fine presentation, of this Warner Brothers Archive Collection release will offer little. But for those of us who love the film, EVERYTHING is there, and wonderfully prestine and sharp!


DESPITE WHAT MAYBE THOUGHT ABOUT THE STORY CONTENT of this 1972 release, you ceratinly can't criticise the REMASTERING. If you too loved and appreciated the quality of the 'Warner Brothers Hammer Horror Classics Collection', RESTORED FIVE Hammer film BLU RAY BOX SET two years ago, then you are in for a treat. DRACULA AD 1972 was previously released on a German Blu-Ray, this was based on the same transfer created for the 2005 DVD release for multiple regions. Word has it that, The Warner Archive Collection reviewed that particular transfer and rejected it as . . . unusable.


THIS WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray, has been made from a NEW 2K scan by Warner's MPI facility of a recently manufactured interpositive. Color correction was performed using Ektrachrome transparencies, and thousands of instances of dirt, scratches and age-related damage were REPAIRED BY HAND, frame by frame. There are sadly no extras except for DRACULA AD 1972 trailer on this release, but for those of us who have waited a long time for this particular film  . . AND The Satanic Rites of Dracula, to be released soon.. to be remastered and presented on Blu Ray, visuals and audio are an amazing bonus in themselves. 




ABOVE : COVER FROM MY VHS COPY. BOTH THIS AND MY DVD CAN NOW TAKE A HAPPY AND WELL DESERVED RETIREMENT!




 

Saturday 6 October 2018

ITALIAN HAMMER FILM PHOTOBUSTAS : REPAIRED LOOK AMAZING!


IT'S A SAD TRUTH that many press kits, photographs and beautifully produced cinema posters, from the films of Peter Cushing some produced over 50 years ago, often aren't in the best of condition, when they arrive at auction or are up for sale on ebay these days. Back in the day, many sets of stills, lobby cards and press stills were produced in their thousands, especially the cheaper black and white, sets. It wasn't unusual for the press office to use cheap photographic paper, thin paper stock for the cinema posters, as many films made on a tight budget, extended their limitations to the money used for the business of publicity, after the film had been finished. Often was the case, there was little to no funding left. Colour photographs were expensive, even when the capture list, was presented to the studio photographer on set, priority was given to stills taken in black and white. The film was cheap, the processing and printing too. So colour stills, were taken for magazines and publication. Also, no one at the time at Hammer, Amicus or any other 1950's or 60's studio press office, had any idea that the films, would go on to be classics, and the press material HIGHLY COLLECTABLE and command high prices!


SO THIS IS WHY, I have been busy at work and burning the night oil, repairing this fine set of Italian PHOTOBUSTA Lobby Stills, Hammer films DRACULA AD 1972. Many parts of Europe at that time, were included in the UK budget for press kits. Although they did get, a set of a few black and white stills, usually a set of eight. Many times, the publicity office in a country would then get them tinted with ink, to give them a little colour. Unfortunately, if the artist had not seen the film or any colour prints from the set, characters on the photographs would be wearing dresses, coats, cloaks and tie, of a completely different colour, to what they wore in the movie. Hence David Peel, appearing often in a dark blue, light blue and one time yellow cloak, in press stills in Europe during the theatrical release of Hammer films, 'The Brides Of Dracula' starring Peter Cushing . . not the grey cloak, he is seen wearing throughout the film.


GREAT CARE has been given in touching up the paint, ink and damage to this set of Italian Photobusta's. I have cleaned them, repaired tears, scratches, pin holes and dent, without comprising the style and vintage of the time. As we shared in a post earlier this week, the Italian press stills, were often quite something. Many were excellent cut and paste poster montages, like the one we see here and other times quite strange and weird. Take a look at last week's The Satanic Rites of Dracula cinema poster, that features a photograph of naked chubby man, behind a tinted photo of Christopher Lee and Joanna Lumley. The man, photograph taken at a very odd angle, was not featured in the film or indeed have anything connection to any of Hammer films!   


PHOTOBUSTERS were produced to enhance the best moments of a film, they were printed usually in colour, using tinted black and white photographs, sometimes managing to out do the drama and presentation of the more expensive and official press photographic promotional materials. Sadly, they were often, as in this case, printed on glossy and thin paper. Easy to bend, fold causing the print and ink to flake off over the years. But one imagines, as in this case, they must have been very eye catching and dramatic, when first released and pinned to the foyer or reception of a cinema. In most cases, they certainly impress me, with their size, colour and collection of images. Today even though, they come with the risk of having been folded and damaged, they still command high prices and are highly sort after by collectors.



 
SEE THIS GALLERY AND FEATURE AT OUR WEBSITE : CLICK HERE!



COMING SOON is our competition, MARKING THE RELEASE FROM WARNER BROTHERS the ALSO REMASTERED BLU RAYS of both DRACULA AD 1972 and THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA. We'll be offering you the chance to win copies of both films and other HIGHLY collectable AD and SATANIC prizes! MISS IT AND MISS OUT!



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