Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) / Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1966) Directed by Gordon Flemyng. Starring Peter Cushing, Roy Castle, Jennie Linden, Roberta Tovey, Michael Coles, Barry Ingham, Bernard Cribbins, Ray Brooks, Andrew Keir, Jill Curzon, Eddie Powell, Godfrey Quigley. SYNOPSIS: 4K UHD Special Edition releases of the two big-screen adventures of the […]
Hammer classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell receiving new limited edition Blu-ray releases
Second Sight Films has announced the Peter Cushing-starring Hammer Horror classics The Mummy and Frankenstein and The Monster From Hell are set for special limited edition Blu-ray releases in the UK this August; check out the details here… In 1890s Egypt, a team of British archaeologists, John Banning (Peter Cushing), his father Stephen Banning […]
Dr. Who and the Daleks & Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. are coming to 4K Ultra HD
StudioCanal has revealed that the classic 1960s Peter Cushing-led feature films Dr. Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. are set for a 4K Ultra HD release this July; check out the cover artwork and special feature details below…. An out of this world 4K restoration of Dr. Who & The Daleks […]
Can we please stop the de-aging and CGI resurrection fascination?
Tom Jolliffe looks at the current fascination with de-aging and digital resurrections… There have been plenty of annoying movie trends in Hollywood over the years. They tend to come and go. 3D was a novelty that didn’t quite work in the 80’s, which was more recently revolutionised by James Cameron (after another brief period of […]
October Horrors 2019 Day 15 – The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein, 1957. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, and Robert Urquhart. SYNOPSIS: Baron Victor Frankenstein is a burgeoning mad doctor who decides to embark upon a dangerous and controversial experiment, building a creature from the remains of the dead in the hopes of creating a new life. […]
October Horrors 2018 Day 8 – Dracula (1958)
Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula), 1958. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, and Carol Marsh. SYNOPSIS: After his friend Jonathan Harker goes missing, vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing finds himself locked into a battle against his murderer, the centuries-old vampire known as Count Dracula. To say that Bram Stoker’s […]
Hot Toys celebrates 40 years of Star Wars with Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader collectible set
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, Hot Toys has revealed its upcoming Grand Moff Tarkin and Darth Vader sixth scale collectible set from Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope; take a look at the official promotional images here… SEE ALSO: Pre-order via Sideshow Collectibles In addition to the collectible set, […]
WATCH: Digitally re-creating Grand Moff Tarkin for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Special effects wizards Industrial Light & Magic have posted a new video to their YouTube channel detailing the elaborate process that went into digitally re-creating the late Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Check out the video here… SEE ALSO: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story video breaks down ILM’s Oscar-nominated […]
Digital Damnation, or Denying Dignity to the Dead with Computer Generated Doppelgangers
Anghus Houvouras on digital resurrection… No. Hell no. This needs to stop and needs to be stopped in its infancy. Snuffed out before this demon baby matures into a fully grown ideological hellspawn that feasts on our cinematic souls. I might be one of the few people who was genuinely irked at seeing the late, […]
ILM’s John Knoll on digitally recreating a key character for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
One of the big talking points coming out of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was the return of Grand Moff Tarkin, with Industrial Light & Magic digitally recreating the likeness of Peter Cushing, some 22 years after his death. Given Tarkin’s ties to the Death Star, it was perhaps inevitable that the character would […]