#amicus films

[halloweenhundreds]

The House That Dripped Blood is a reliable Amicus anthology with great turns from Lee and Cushing obvs but Pertwee (with a dig at Lee/Cushing/Hammer I’ve always laughed at) and Pitt shine. Messy and uneven but that’s no shock. Fun and colorful and vibey.

[zippocreed501]

FROM THE B-MOVIE BADLANDS...

...images from the lost continent of cult films, b-movies and celluloid dreamscapes

Amicus Horror Anthology films

...starring those horror film stalwarts Kenny Lynch, Roy Castle Terry Thomas and Jon Pertwee...

Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) Torture Garden (1967) The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Tales from the Crypt (1972) Asylum (1972) The Vault of Horror (1973) From Beyond the Grave (1974)

[machetelanding]

Peter Cushing in Tales From the Crypt (1972)

[doubtfultaste]

The Psychopath (1966)

[paleobeastentertainment]

Day 23: From the '70s

Film: The House That Dripped Blood (1971) Dir: Peter Duffell

[esonetwork]

City Of The Dead | Episode 366

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City Of The Dead | Episode 366

Jim discusses a little gem from 1960 considered the first film produced by Amicus – “City Of The Dead” or “Horror Hotel,” starring Christopher Lee, Patricia Jessel, Dennis Lotis, Venetia Stevens, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John, Valentine Dyall and Ann Beach. A college student (Stevens) goes to the site of a 17th century witch burning and discovers a horrific secret. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

[vintage1981]

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee Kickstarts Deluxe Blu-ray Edition

The Life and Deaths of Christopher Lee mixes traditional documentary with a dash of fantasy. It is narrated by Christopher Lee himself... in the form of an elaborate marionette, voiced by Peter Serafinowicz. The marionette was custom designed and built by Arch Model Studios, who made all of the puppets for Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, Isle of Dogs and Asteroid City and Tim Burton's Frankenweenie. 

The film combines new, exclusive interviews with filmmakers, including Peter Jackson, John Landis and Joe Dante, friends and family members with animated flights of fantasy from a wide variety of artists including 2000AD's Simon Coleby, award winning stop-motion animator Astrid Goldsmith and the legendary illustrator Dave McKean who directed, scored and animated a whole chapter of the film himself. 

Spanning eight decades and almost three hundred films, Christopher Lee became famous for his iconic performance as Dracula. But he was so much more than just the Hammer Horror roles he is so fondly remembered for. His career took him from uncredited parts in 1950s swashbucklers with Errol Flynn, through famous performances in 007 and Star Wars films, cult hits like The Wicker Man and The Return of Captain Invincible, right up to a lead role in cinema's biggest event - The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Along the way, he worked with everyone from Orson Welles to Mario Bava, Jess Franco, Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. 

Yet his story is so much richer than just his career. Lee was born into Italian aristocracy, with a military career shrouded in secrecy and kept his private life closely guarded. Some of his ventures and adventures seem highly improbable yet, as the film reveals, he often found himself in unexpected situations - he witnessed the last ever death by guillotine, was cousins with 007 creator Ian Fleming, he met Tolkien, performed with the classic Saturday Night Live line-up, was a friend and neighbour of Boris Karloff, he was the oldest person to ever get on the Billboard music charts (with his own Heavy Metal album), was an expert knife thrower, professional opera singer and a Nazi hunter. And somehow, he also managed to appear in almost 300 films of both the highest and lowest quality imaginable. 

The film is finished and producers Jon Spira and Hank Starrs want to share it with you by producing a top quality Blu-Ray with great extra features and a really amazing LIMITED/NUMBERED EDITION COFFIN-SHAPED BOX SET, full of goodies, which will look killer on the shelf of any discerning cineaste. The jewel in the crown of this box-set will be a 3D 'death mask' of Christopher Lee designed and produced by Arch Model Studio exclusively for this set. They also want to host some screenings - both online and in real cinemas - so we can all experience it together and you can get to meet some of the people behind it.

Making this film has been a fascinating journey - producers excavated the British Film Institute archives where they hold Lee's personal collection of scrapbooks detailing his career in his own hand, been given access to personal photos from the family archive, they met and interviewed his closest friends and family from all over the world and we've worked with some incredible artists, puppeteers, animators, musicians and filmmakers to bring his story to the screen in the most cinematic way. Whether you're a fan of Horror, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings or just cinema history in general, we think you'll be delighted by this revealing and eclectic documentary.

Risks and challenges

The film is fully edited and ready to go. This Kickstarter is to fund the final bits of post-production and the production of a fantastic Blu-ray and deluxe collectors edition box set as we're all still committed to physical media. Please note that all illustrations of rewards are designs/prototype images. The final items might differ - we hope they'll actually be better.

[fibula-rasa]

Torture Garden (1967)  

segment: “The Man Who Collected Poe”

[letterboxd | imdb]

Director: Freddie Francis

Cinematographer: Norman Warwick

Performers: Jack Palance, Burgess Meredith, Peter Cushing, & Hedger Wallace

[mariocki]

Donald Sutherland guest stars as the appropriately named Philip Guest, a less appropriately unbalanced kidnapper, in Gideon's Way: The Millionaire's Daughter (1.21, ITC, 1966)

[moviesandmania]

AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS! Reviews and free online

‘The dead hand that crawls, kills and lives!!!’ –And Now the Screaming Starts! is a 1973 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker from a screenplay by Roger Marshall (Shadows ‘The Future Ghost’; What Became of Jack and Jill?; Theatre of Death), based on the novel Fengriffen by David Case. Promoted as And Now the Screaming Starts The Amicus production stars Peter Cushing, Herbert…

[kitschykitschykoo]

Sir Christopher Lee...

[schlock-luster-video]

On June 23, 1972, The House That Dripped Blood debuted in West Germany.

[machetelanding]

[hanzbrew]

I am passionate about the yassification of 60 year old british horror films and the babygirlification of the middle aged characters 💅

[mourningmaybells]

shut up hammer dracula cameo in fright night