Peter Cushing

Ann, one of the girls who lures away Mark Vespers, is played by Roberta Tovey, who played the part of Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter, in the Amicus in all but name movie adaptations, Doctor Who and the Daleks and Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., starring Peter Cushing.

So in line with Sightseers, I re-watched The Ghoul. Not the 1933 one with Boris Karloff, not the 1975 one with Peter Cushing. The 2006 one, produced by Ben Wheatley, directed by Gareth Tunley, who is in Sightseers. He doesn't get run over in Sightseers, but he is in Sightseers.

And, starring, Tom Meeten, who is the shaman in Sightseers and Alice Lowe, Dan Skinner, or Angelos, as you may know him, like does a lot of stuff with Vic and Bob. Rufus Jones. Niamh Cusack and Geoffrey McGivern. Now Geoffrey McGivern's one of those people who is just, it's Crimewatch. If you know him, you'll recognize him. It's because he is one, he's like, he's like the, he's like the sort of pre-Kevin Eldon, Kevin Eldon. One of those guys who's just in, he's, for example, he is either Biggum from the, standing at the back dressed stupidly and looking stupid party. Oh yeah. In Blackadder the Third. Yes, yes. Oh, I know him. Yeah, him. And he's in Chellmswood 123 and Frying LoRry and loads and loads of shit. And he's, he was in that thing that, Mitchell and Webb did after Peep Show. He was the disreputable grandfather in that or uncle or something like that. But anyway, so The Ghoul is, despite all those names in it, The Ghoul is serious, it's not a comedy film, it's just a straight, well, it starts off as a straight thriller where, it's a detective. He's being called in for an unusual murder that has maybe has some sort of weird properties to it. Like, how does this murder take place, you know, without a supernatural element, shall we suggest? I don't know. and then to sort of find out more about it, he goes undercover with, a psychiatrist. Who is, the psychiatrist to one of their leads. and starts telling her the and goes undercover as a depressed person to try and get more facts and more sort of like info on this other guy. and then possibly the film reveals to you that actually he is going to see a psychotherapist. And he is really depressed and the whole, detective thing might be a fantasy. Or it might not be. I remember you raving about this at the time, and I still haven't gotten round to seeing it, but I definitely. Yeah, it does sound interesting. Yeah. It, it sits under my thing, I've now decided that there might be others out there, but as far as I'm concerned, a hard and fast rule is if a film is called The Ghoul, it's fucking awesome. Yes. Because because the Boris Karloff one's fucking great. The one with Peter Cushing and John Hurt's fucking amazing, I love that film. And this again, I just really. And again, like I say, it's a lot of, you know, it's mostly people from that sort of Mighty Boosh kind of era of comedy, like say it's like Alice Lowe, so it's like Sightseers, you got those same sort of people in there. Deadly serious and you're like, oh, actually this is they're really good fucking actors and it's not a, you know what I mean? I mean it is the classic thing that you have to be a great actor to do comedy. but yeah, they're they're just like everyone in it's fantastic. And as I say, it's sort of vies each way because then he goes to. He first goes to a psychiatrist, gets referred to another psychiatrist, but that psychiatrist is into, occultism and esoterica. And starts talking about like loops, time loops and things like that. And it all sort of feeds together, plus the guy's that, you know, so. Is he a detective pretending to have depression or is he a guy with depression who pretends he's a detective to try and get through his day because it's a fantasy? But also is there possibly something actually supernatural occurring in so much as occult practical magic, basically, you know, could that be in the key and it's like, yeah. It sounds awesome. But it's a great film and I will say this, this is, I don't feel I've spoilt it because I don't think it gives you a clear answer. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. You get to the end of it and it's like that could this could go either way, you know, is this which is the fantasy could go either way if you see what I mean? Yeah. So, you know, because he's talking to the psychiatrist, the depressed person, it's like, oh, so what do you do? Well, I just walk around the streets and what do you do? sort of pretend I'm investigating things like I'm a policeman or something like that. And it sort of, yeah, sort of snowballs from there that you're suddenly like, yeah, shit, which way round is this now? And it's, yeah, and it's really, yeah, and it was you saying about Under the Skin, it's that same sort of vibe, you know, where it's like very sort of, very sort of like a lot of mood and sort of an overall feeling to it, you know, a sort of like a sort of darkness or sinisterness and everything. But yeah, so yeah, that's my, my first recommendation is The Ghoul. Sounds amazing. From 2016, but also any other film called The Ghoul is good. Is probably worth watching. Yes.

I think, I think he's going to end, he's going to end up being able to do a memoir like Peter Cushing where he just lists all the ways in which he's been dispatched in film.

He's been in Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes and The Saint, The Baron, The Lone Gunmen.

Oh, could have been, yeah. Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and then Telly Savalas turns up.

it's got Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. They could probably play golf for an hour, and I'd be happy watching them. I'm not a big fan of sport. No, no dissing golf anyone, but I just don't watch much sport. Right, anyway.

it's got a fascinating cast of characters and the way they play off each other, and a bit of rivalry between Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee.

the next story is Wax Works with Peter Cushing and the amazing Joss Ackland.

which is Peter Cushing is a retired

Apart from apart from Peter Cushing.

they finally released the BBC 1984 with Peter Cushing.

Peter Cushing is, you know, barely shaving.

It's and Peter Cushing's just chef's kiss.

he is the man who Peter Cushing is telling the cat stories to in The Uncanny.

Because he got, because that was the thing, is he got kind of into it much the same as you got with Peter Cushing, where Peter Cushing sort of brought his own clothes and was suggesting lines because he was a real Sherlock aficionado, Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle aficionado.

I was going to mention that later. I quite liked Peter Cushing or Sherlock Holmes's little flourish with the knife, the dagger later on when he.

Because I mean, that's in a weird way, because obviously, Peter Cushing was a real like Sherlock Holmes nut.

I mean, interestingly enough, part of his costume is Peter Cushing's own stuff that he brought from home. So I get the impression he was an early Sherlock Holmes cosplayer.

but before we get too excited and go off on a tangent about how much we love Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, which spoiler alert, that's happening, and Michael Gough, bloody Nora.

And the other one is Peter Cushing in Star Wars because Pickering is pointless.

Peter Cushing and um John Carradine.

Um and that is uh that is Nazi zombies underwater with Peter Cushing.

Well, this is what I'm doing, so I add a picture of Peter Cushing in the outfit and a picture of the two of them.

You got Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Donald Pleasence, John Collins, Jeffrey Bayldon, Joss Ackland, it's, you know, proper really good actors.

Yeah, the Peter Cushing Vincent Price one, yeah.

Oh, apparently they were looking to get Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee to play the judge.

And and yeah, as you say, I mean, love Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee and but.

Yeah, he was in the Hammer Sherlock Holmes as well, he was in The Hound of the Baskervilles with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, he played Watson.

but he also did, The Flesh and the Fiends, the Burke and Hare movie with Peter Cushing.

You know, no, actually, these are great ones that you've got to see that you may not know the name, you may not know, you know, it hasn't got Peter Cushing or Christopher Lee in it, but.

Now I was extremely disappointed to when it didn't that it didn't turn out he was Peter Cushing.

I thought he looked like a really, really, you know, fucked up Peter Cushing who might have survived.