Hammer Films

[jazzo]

I know these are pricey, but these new Hammers are also some of the best curated releases I’ve ever seen. The bonus materials on, both, X…The Unknown! and The Abominable Snowman (two personal favourites) are simply astonishing, and the passion the participants have for the material, and the care that Hammer has put into finding archival or producing new material puts most of the major labels to shame.

I anxiously await the more affordable standard editions of the first two Quatermass pictures they’ve released so far, and hope they tackle the third, The Devil Rides Out, and Hell Is A City soon!

[Maltic]

Will there be "standard" editions?

[jazzo]

That was a hope more than anything else.

[Dr Amicus]

I would expect there to be standard editions. I think the only big box to sell out so far, apart from the Red Dracula set, has been Captain Kronos. I do get the limited editions, the books alone are worth the extra money.

Lady In The Fog is minor but quite fun, one of several “Yank gets involved in a murder mystery” they did. Again, the extras look like the main attraction here.

[midnitedave]

Due to a printing error, Hammer's Dracula is delayed until November.

[Stefan Andersson]

Daughters of Darkness, Lance Comfort, 2K:
https://hammerfilms.com/blogs/news/comi ... f-darkness
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=39218
https://notesoncinematograph.blogspot.c ... .html#more

"This Limited Collector's Edition comprises:

Brand-new artwork by Liza Shumska
Limited edition O-card packaging
English subtitles on the main feature
The discs feature:

New 2K restoration of the UK theatrical version from the original negatives
Two 2026 commentaries with Heidi Honeycutt, Sarah Morgan, Josephine Botting and Phuong Le
New programme on director Lance Comfort and his body of work, featuring bfi curator and programmer Josephine Botting, film critic and journalist Phuong Le, film and media historian Melanie Williams, writer/researcher Marc David Jacobs and film curator, filmmaker, and writer Ehsan Khoshbakht
New programme on the making of Daughter of Darkness by Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic and Studies in Terror"