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Friday 22 May 2020

COMPETITION WINNERS AND LEE CUSHING AND ROONEY FEATURE REVIEW COMING UP!


#KINOLORBER HAS A NEW blu ray release of this #PeterCushing guesting, #ChristopherLee starring film and we have a FULL gallery of #BEHINDTHESCENES photographs and review of the BLU RAY here shortly . . .


SOMETHING TELLS ME, #ChristopherLee, #MickeyRooney and #PeterCushing had a fun time on the set of 'Arabian Adventure' ...



CONGRATULATIONS Dermot Harris (US) and Sue Dagnell (UK) A big thank you to EVERYONE who entered! There's something 'special' a-comin' on May 25th .. I may have to get me some 'super size roll' gift wrap! 😳😵😃 - Stay safe everyone! Marcus


Tuesday 18 August 2015

KINO TURNS ON THE LIGHTS IN NEW LONG SHADOWS BLU RAY RELEASE SEPT 2015


KINO's latest offering from their Studio Classics Line, House of the Long Shadows on blu ray, offers an attraction that no video / dvd or blu ray has been able to furnish us with yet... a print of the film, that you CAN actually SEE! KINO's release is presented in AVC encoded 1080p high definition framed at 1.85.1 widescreen...and looks all the better for it. C'mon there are SHADOWS and there is just too plain DARK! 

I spotted a review by Ian Jane at the DVDTALK.COM website and I'm attaching the link here and at the bottom of this piece, so you can read for yourself, about this release....Here also for the very few who don't know what they're missing, if you've not SEEN this film, pardon the pun... there are some good points I've pulled out from Ian's review... 

:"Director Pete Walker's horror comedy The House Of The Long Shadows never got a domestic DVD release outside of an MOD/DVD-R release from MGM (which featured a shoddy full frame tape sourced transfer), which is surprising when you consider the pedigree of talent involved in the picture." In KINO's blu ray release you can actually see what's going on inside the shadowy interiors now and detail and texture are strong across the board." 

:"On the extras interview with Pete Walker he says,  how this movie basically got him out of retirement, working with Golan and Globus, how the film was basically a nostalgia piece and how everyone in the world absolutely loved Peter Cushing" 

"The House Of The Long Shadows maybe could and should have been more than it is but as it stands, it's a blast watching four screen legends unite (in the only film the four of them would appear together in) for a genuinely enjoyable mix of humor, horror and mystery. Kino's Blu-ray release offers a massive upgrade over the previous release and it throws in some quality supplements as well, giving this amusing and charming picture the special edition it deserves. Highly recommended.... Now all you lucky folks in the US, it's safe, the LIGHTS ARE ON....go get your copy!

The FULL REVIEW by Ian Jane is HERE @DVDTALK.COM


JUST CLICK  HERE 

Monday 29 September 2014

NEWS: AT THE EARTH'S CORE GETS BLU RAY RELEASE FROM KINO


Great news for Peter Cushing fans in the US, Amicus Films 1976, 'AT THE EARTH'S CORE' finally gets a BLU RAY release.

Here is the official info from scorpion releasing :

'Here is the info for the upcoming Kino's BluRay Release of AT THE EARTH'S CORE, with special features produced by Scorpion.

Reversible cover of both these art work

Brand New on camera interview with star Caroline Munro

Brand New on camera with Director Kevin Connor

Audio commentary with Kevin Connor

Original Trailer

Street Date is 1/13, MSRP is 29.95



'AT THE EARTH'S CORE':

CAST:
Doug McClure (David Innes), Peter Cushing (Dr Abner Perry), Caroline Munro (Princess Dia), Cy Grant (Ra), Sean Lynch (Hoojah), Godfrey James (Ghak)

PRODUCTION:
Director: Kevin Connor, Screenplay: Milton Subotsky, Based on the Novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Producer:John Dark,  Photography: Alan Hume, Music: Mike Vickers, Process Photography: Charles Staffell, Special Effects Supervisor: Ian Wingrove, Production Design: Maurice Carter. Production Company: Amicus/Lion International.

Monday 9 January 2012

PETER CUSHING: THE FLESH AND THE FIENDS: LOBBY CARDS AND REVIEW


One of the forgotten classics of British cinema, The Flesh and The Fiends (1959) is a blackly comic, almost disturbingly vicious black-and-white horror thriller. Telling the true story of Edinburgh grave robbers Burke and Hare and their dealings with the eminent anatomist Dr Robert Knox, the film bears a superficial resemblance to Terence Fisher's first two movies in the Hammer Frankenstein series (1957, 1958), but makes for a far more cynical, realistic, and uncomfortable viewing experience.



On the back of his recent Hammer hits, Peter Cushing was cast as the amoral Dr Knox in this film, and plays the character with the same arrogance he brought to his Baron Frankenstein. However, despite his top billing, Cushing is by no means required to carry The Flesh and The Fiends, and is instead merely one of an ensemble of actors who deliver almost universally fine performances. Most notable are George Rose and Donald Pleasence, who are both hilarious and chilling as the feckless body snatchers. Pleasence is particularly striking as the selfish, cowardly sociopath Hare, his shabby appearance, evil leer, and sudden lapses into excitable anger and panic being a world away from the controlled stillness of his more famous villains in the likes of You Only Live Twice. Billie Whitelaw is also extraordinarily effective (and extraordinarily sexy) as a hard-faced prostitute who falls victim to the murderous duo.



Produced by the team of Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman shortly after they had a moderate hit with their unremarkable Jack The Ripper (1959), the most impressive thing about The Flesh and The Fiends is the sheer scale of the production, which runs to some truly enormous interior and exterior sets and seemingly hundreds of extras for the crowd scenes (of which there are quite a few). In this regard, the film is a world away from the flamboyant and colourful, yet claustrophobically small-scale action of most Hammer horror films; in terms of scale, The Flesh and The Fiends is more reminiscent of historical epics such as David Lean's films of Dickens.


After a decade of making unremarkable (and mostly low-budget) thrillers, director John Gilling got his first horror movie gig with this movie, and rarely made films outside the genre thereafter; most of his later career was spent working in television. The Flesh and The Fiends is easily Gilling's best film, and certainly does not deserve its relative obscurity, particularly in its native country.


This Region 1 DVD of The Flesh and The Fiends is a good example of how the format can be used to make the most of films that exist in several different versions, such as when older films have been cut to ribbons (for a variety of reasons) over the years. Included here are both the original British release print of the film, and the more explicit `Continental' version, featuring slightly more violence, and even topless shots of some very game female extras in the brothel scenes (and maybe I'm overly prudish, but for me there's something not quite right about nude scenes in black-and-white films; the two things just don't go together somehow).



As well as the two complete versions of the film, the DVD also features the opening credits sequence of an abridged version called simply Mania, and a trailer for the movie, advertising it under the all-purpose title The Fiendish Ghouls; this DVD really does put to shame the bare bones releases of Hammer movies from the likes of Warner Bros. About the only thing missing is a commentary, but as Gilling, Cushing, Pleasence, and Rose are all (sadly) long gone, no obvious candidates for such an effort present themselves anyway.






2019 UPDATE: SINCE THE POSTING OF THIS FEATURE, we have posted this NEWS of a long awaited NEW BLU RAY release of 'FLESH AND THE FIENDS' at this website and the FACEBOOK PCASUK FAN PAGE :We will of course, be posting reviews and updates as soon as the release in on its way!

NEWS: Great news another Cushing classic coming to blu-ray The Flesh and The Fiends coming from Kino. More details as we learn them. Coming in 2020!
Brand New 2K Masters! Two Cuts!
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960)

aka Mania aka The Fiendish Ghouls
aka Psycho Killers

 
Starring Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, June Laverick, Billie Whitelaw, George Rose, Renee Houston and Dermot Walsh – Shot by Monty Berman (Jack the Ripper, The Crawling Eye) – Music by Stanley Black (War-Gods of the Deep, Valentino) – Co-written by Leon Griffiths (The Grissom Gang, The Squeeze) – Co-written and Directed by John Gilling (The Reptile, The Plague of the Zombies).


REVIEW: Matthew Mercy
IMAGES: Marcus Brooks


Buy here:
http://www.amazon.com/Flesh-Fiends-Peter-Cushing/dp/tags-on-product/B00005KHJZ
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