Four Sided Triangle (1953) (4K + Blu-ray Collector's Limited Edition) (Hammer Films) [UK]

[paulboland]

Release date: March 31, 2025
Purchase links: Hammer Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi - HMV
Price: £35.00 (Hammer Films) - £34.99 (Amazon - Zavvi - HMV)

 

[paulboland]

This limited collector's edition comprises:

• Two disks in a stylish digipak, one UHD and one Blu-ray with the content duplicated across both formats, with English, French, Italian, Spanish, German subtitles on each version of the film.
• A rigid box featuring brand new artwork by UK illustrator Tommy Pocket.
• An extensive booklet containing new essays and reproduced material from the Hammer archives.
• Facsimile reproductions of the UK and US pressbooks and a double-sided poster.

The disks features:

• New commentary with film and media historian Melanie Williams and film researcher and critic Thirza Wakefield.
• New commentary with actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic, and Kevin Lyons, editor of the Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Film and Television website.
• I Am Not Ashamed: Film historian Lucy Bolton takes an unvarnished look at Barbara Payton, her body of work and her riches-to-rags story of Hollywood excess in an unenlightened and censorious age.
• In the Sticks Sci-Fi!: William Fowler and Vic Pratt, creators/curators of the bfi’s ongoing Flipside series, discuss and deconstruct this key example of Hammer’s science-horror output.
• Things to Come: Film historian and writer Neil Sinyard examines Four Sided Triangle, its stars, direction and problematic sexual politics.
• An extensive image gallery, including behind-the-scenes images, alongside tracks from Malcolm Arnold’s score.

The booklet features:

• New article by writer and actor Bruce G. Hallenbeck, examining the making of Four Sided Triangle.
• New article by novelist and screenwriter Gavin Collinson, examining the source for this Frankenstein-inspired story and its many adjacent films.
• New article by author and film expert Neil Sinyard, comparing the screenplay against noted sci-fi author William F. Temple’s source novel.
• An archive interview with Len Harris, Hammer’s stalwart camera operator and a key presence at Hammer for over a decade.
• A new in-depth examination of the attempts at remaking Four Sided Triangle in the 1990s (including reproduction production paperwork from the Hammer archive).
• Reproductions of the UK and US Pressbooks.
• A double-sided poster.

The features, packaging and specification on this page are not final and are subject to change.

 

[Lollard2002]

Excellent. Still have my Ronin laserdisc so this will be my second copy of the film.

 

[C.C. 95]

Weird. Hammer follows up KRONOS with one of their stinkers.

 

[Lollard2002]

Weird. Hammer follows up KRONOS with one of their stinkers.

Hardly a stinker and I suspect their release options are limited because of all the rights issues...

 

[C.C. 95]

Hardly a stinker and I suspect their release options are limited because of all the rights issues...

Obviously movies are subjective- and it may work for you. But, it's objectively at the very bottom half of the Hammer list.

 

[Damien666]

the only reason I know of this is because I have a book on all Hammer films
disappointed it's not something I want

 

[Lollard2002]

Obviously movies are subjective- and it may work for you. But, it's objectively at the very bottom half of the Hammer list.

To be fair it's never been marked as a hammer masterpiece.....

 

[hoppusdelonge]

Kronos was worth it for what we got, but it had me worried that all releases would try to justify being that price. Price is actually very reasonable, and £5 less than I was expecting if the book is as thick as it appears.

 

[paulboland]

Hammer Films Website News Blog discusses Four Sided Triangle release

Four Sided Triangle - Available for Pre-Order 14th February

It was recently announced that the next movie to be restored and released by Hammer Films will be Four Sided Triangle (1953), an early thriller directed by fan favourite, Terence Fisher. It represents the first Hammer picture to be based, in part, on the story of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the...

hammerfilms.com

 

[paulboland]

 

[Damien666]

I want the Karnstein trilogy

 

[paulboland]

Amazon UK/Zavvi/HMV links added to OP
Amazon will be £34.99 before release date.

Amazon is UK delivery address only athe moment
Delivery address outside UK I expect will go live at some stage before release date possibly in next few days

 

[C.C. 95]

Another beautiful set from Hammer. Too bad the movie is a stinker. Hopefully they can do one of their better pictures next.

 

[paulboland]

Another beautiful set from Hammer. Too bad the movie is a stinker. Hopefully they can do one of their better pictures next.

@C.C. 95
The next Hammer Films Collector's Edition release is Shatter

Shatter (1974) (4K + Blu-ray Collector's Limited Edition) (Hammer Films) [UK]

Release date: May 12, 2025 Purchase links: Hammer Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi Price: £35.00 (Hammer Films) - £34.99 (Amazon - Zavvi)

www.hidefninja.com

You need to bear in my mind that Hammer Films UK only has the rights to some Hammer Horror Films in regards to Physical Media releases
It's possible but not yet confirmed they might do a collaboration with StudioCanal or one of the other UK distributors on some releases that have the rights to lot of hammer horror films in the UK

A lot of the main hammer horror films the rights are with various distributor labels
Warner
Universal
StudioCanal
Columbia (Sony)
Icon Films
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution

The rights that hammer films UK have is what Network Releasing had the rights to before previously closing down
Network originally setup the new compamy Hammer Studios with Hammer Films before network closed down , when John Gore purchased Hammer Films it included the new company set up known as Hammer Studios
Example these hammer horror films was planned for 4K restoration and release on Blu-ray by Network but got halted due to the company closing down
Quatermass Xperiment
Quatermass 2
Abominable Snowman

A lot of the releases will not be the horror films but other film genre that hammer produced
For example TV series releases like Dick Barton as they are working on doing a release

 

[paulboland]

My amazon UK order was just dispatched a few minutes ago I will have delivery on release date Monday March 31

 

[Lollard2002]

@C.C. 95
The next Hammer Films Collector's Edition release is Shatter

Shatter (1974) (4K + Blu-ray Collector's Limited Edition) (Hammer Films) [UK]

Release date: May 12, 2025 Purchase links: Hammer Films - Amazon UK - Zavvi Price: £35.00 (Hammer Films) - £34.99 (Amazon - Zavvi)

www.hidefninja.com

You need to bear in my mind that Hammer Films UK only has the rights to some Hammer Horror Films in regards to Physical Media releases
It's possible but not yet confirmed they might do a collaboration with StudioCanal or one of the other UK distributors on some releases that have the rights to lot of hammer horror films in the UK

A lot of the main hammer horror films the rights are with various distributor labels
Warner
Universal
StudioCanal
Columbia (Sony)
Icon Films
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution

The rights that hammer films UK have is what Network Releasing had the rights to before previously closing down
Network originally setup the new compamy Hammer Studios with Hammer Films before network closed down , when John Gore purchased Hammer Films it included the new company set up known as Hammer Studios
Example these hammer horror films was planned for 4K restoration and release on Blu-ray by Network but got halted due to the company closing down
Quatermass Xperiment
Quatermass 2
Abominable Snowman

A lot of the releases will not be the horror films but other film genre that hammer produced
For example TV series releases like Dick Barton as they are working on doing a release

So pretty much what the Ronin released on laserdisc in the mid 90's so any Ronin discs i have will or should get a 4k release.... Having said that i was never able to get the roan laserdisc of Spaceways 1953. Never came across a copy. Also there is one anomaly...... The Abominable Snowman was mastered from a 35mm print yet any blu-rays of it have a few sequences which are upscaled SD as those elements don't exist in HD yet Roan had a master 35mm print. Where did it go. They also did The Satanic Rites of Dracula and Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires. Did Warner get the full rights to them post 90's?