Peter Cushing – TV Cream

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From Beyond the Grave

Dumped by EC, Amicus buy up the stories of esteemed horror scribe Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, and create their masterpiece.

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Island Of Terror

A taut (and especially so around the budgetary purse-strings) little tale from Planet Films (the company which Mancunian Films turned into at...

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Revenge of Frankenstein, The

Second installment of Hammer’s Cushing-fronted Universal copyright-dodging franchise, with the good doctor eluding the death sentence meted out to him by angry...

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Uncanny, The

Odd, Anglo-Canadian feline horror portmanteau in which horror novelist Peter Cushing tells three terrible tales of supernatural catty menace to disbelieving publisher...

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Torture Garden

A poor second bite of the portmanteau cherry for Amicus, with Burgess Meredith as Dr Diabolo, a carnival showman with a rather...

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Tales From The Crypt

Lurid EC Comics stories are the source material here. A cowled Ralph Richardson predicts the grisly demises of five visitors to his...

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Satanic Rites of Dracula, The

Hammer’s penultimate and Christopher Lee’s last caped catastrophe. We’re all for bringing the Count into the 20th century, if only to get...

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Legend of the Werewolf

Ropey entry in the werewolf canon from short-lived (and you can see why) Hammer imitators Tyburn, with Peter Cushing and Ron Moody...

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House That Dripped Blood, The

Amicus commenced their anthological heyday with this four-piece affair in which over half the male cast wear cravats. The first story is...

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I, Monster

We know what you’re thinking. How does Christopher Lee’s enjoyably atmospheric Amicus reworking of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde link with Dr...

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Hound of the Baskervilles, The

Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...

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Horror Express

In this elegantly deranged effort, turn-of-century palaeontologists Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing take a fossilised ape man via train from Peking to...

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