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Sangster Directs Hammer 4K UHD + Blu-Ray (US Import)
Severin Films
Pre-sale - Release date: 30.06.2026
Original title: The Horror of Frankenstein / Lust for a Vampire / Fear In The Night
Year: 1970 - 1972
Country: UK
Region code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: A
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 760137210283
Image: 1.85:1 (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision / HDR10
Audio: English - Stereo
Subtitles: English SDH
Age rating: Not Rated
Genre: Horror
Cast: Kate O’Mara, Veronica Carlson, Yutte Stensgaard, Suzanna Leigh, Peter Cushing
Director: Jimmy Sangster
Synopsis:
Sangster Directs Hammer presents the North American UHD premieres of three classic films from one of Hammer Films' most influential creative voices, writer-director Jimmy Sangster. Known for scripting landmark titles such as The Curse Of Frankenstein, Horror Of Dracula, and The Mummy, Sangster returned in the 1970s to direct the only three features of his career--each offering a bold and distinctive take on horror. In The Horror Of Frankenstein, Ralph Bates stars as a cold and sociopathic reinterpretation of the infamous doctor, blending dark humor with graphic intensity. Lust For A Vampire pushes the studio's gothic sensuality into new territory, with Yutte Stensgaard leading a tale of seduction and bloodlust. Fear In The Night shifts into psychological territory, delivering a tense, giallo-tinged thriller starring Judy Geeson, Joan Collins, and Peter Cushing.
Each film is presented in UHD for the first time in North America, newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negatives. This 7-disc collection also includes an extensive 312-page book, Horror! Lust! Fear! Sangster, featuring essays, interviews, comic adaptations, and archival material that examine Sangster's lasting influence on genre filmmaking. Across all three films, the set offers over 18 hours of newly produced and archival special features, including multiple audio commentaries, cast and crew interviews, academic video essays, archival panels, and the 2026 documentary Hammer And Beyond: The Jimmy Sangster Legacy.
Additional highlights include in-depth explorations of Mary Shelley's literary legacy, the evolution of the Frankenstein mythos, the history of the Karnstein vampire cycle, and the cultural impact of Hammer Films in both the UK and the United States. With contributions from historians, scholars, and surviving collaborators, this collection provides a comprehensive examination of Sangster's work both in front of and behind the camera. Celebrated as a defining voice in British horror, Sangster's legacy is captured here in a definitive edition that showcases his transition from master screenwriter to singular directorial talent, reaffirming his enduring influence on the genre.
Extras:
Disc 1: THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN UHD
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Producer/Co-Writer/Director Jimmy Sangster, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 96 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- 4K Video: Dolby Vision
- Region Free
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Disc 2: THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN Blu-ray
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Producer/Co-Writer/Director Jimmy Sangster, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
- Frankenstein, Dracula And Me – Archival Interview With Actress Veronica Carlson
- Reunion Panel At 1997 Festival Of Fantastic Films Manchester With Director Jimmy Sangster, Actor Dave Prowse And Actress Veronica Carlson, Moderated By Wayne Kinsey
- Younger Frankenstein – Interview With 2nd Assistant Director Nicholas Granby, Camera Operator Neil Binney, Production Runner Philip Campbell And Co-Writer Jeremy Burnham
- One Frankenstein After Another: 125 Years of Cinematic Adaptations – Illustrated Audio Essay By Gillian Wallace Horvat
- The Life And Work Of Mary Shelley – Interview With Dr. Emma Liggins, Co-Director Of The Manchester Centre For Gothic Studies
- The Unhallowed Arts: The Creation Myth Of Mary Shelley – Interview With Gothic Scholar Dr. Colin-Azariah Kribbs
- Vintage Behind-The-Scenes From Hammer Films
- Alternate TV Opening Credits
- Trailer
- SCARS OF DRACULA/THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN Double Feature Trailer
- SCARS OF DRACULA/THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN Double Feature TV Spot
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 96 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- Region A
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE
2-DISC COLLECTION WITH 5+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
The second feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is also the second film in Hammer’s unofficial ‘Karnstein Trilogy’ loosely based on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's novel Carmilla which introduced an overt sapphic dimension to the traditional vampire mythos: In an 18th century village ruled by superstition, townspeople fear the 40-year curse that is said to reawaken a vampire family dynasty. But when the nearby girls’ school welcomes a new pupil (luscious Danish starlet Yutte Stensgaard) with a taste for her fellow young maidens, the forces of darkness will soon seek the blood of the innocent. Ralph Bates (THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN), Suzanna Leigh (THE LOST CONTINENT), Barbara Jefford (THE NINTH GATE) and Mike Raven (CRUCIBLE OF TERROR) co-star in this “perfect midnight chiller” (DVD Talk) written by Tudor Gates (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, TWINS OF EVIL), scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal with nearly 6 hours of new and archival Special Features.
Disc 3: LUST FOR A VAMPIRE UHD
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Director Jimmy Sangster And Actress Suzanna Leigh, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With David Flint, Author Of Ten Years Of Terror: British Horror Films Of The 1970s
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 96 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- 4K Video: Dolby Vision
- Region Free
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Disc 4: LUST FOR A VAMPIRE Blu-ray
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Director Jimmy Sangster And Actress Suzanna Leigh, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With David Flint, Author Of Ten Years Of Terror: British Horror Films Of The 1970s
- Illustrated Archival Audio Interview With Actress Yutte Stensgaard By Michael Augustine-Reed With Accompanying Career-Spanning Still Gallery
- Live, Love, Lust – Interview With Actress Judy Matheson
- Gothic Girl – Interview With Actress Kirsten Lindholm
- Hammer Times – Interview With Actor Christopher Neame
- A Bit Of Fun – Interview With Actress Erica Beale
- Lust Mel – Interview With Actress Mel Churcher
- Running Blood – Interview With Production Runner Philip Campbell
- Gates Of Karnstein Castle – Archival Interview With Screenwriter Tudor Gates
- The Invisible Prince: The Life & Legacy Of J. Sheridan Le Fanu – Interview With Dr. William Hughes, Gothic Scholar & Co-Editor Of Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations Of Vampires And The Undead From The Enlightenment To The Present Day
- Strange Love – Carmen Maria Machado, Author Of Queer Reflections Of Horror, Reframes The Sapphic Vampire
- School Of The Heaving Bosom: Education, Eroticism And LUST FOR A VAMPIRE – Video Essay By Dr. Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Alternate Version Of Lesbian Scene
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 96 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- Region A
- Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
FEAR IN THE NIGHT
3-DISC COLLECTION WITH 8 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
The third and final feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is a sly nod to DIABOLIQUE, a deft reworking of his earlier Hammer script for SCREAM OF FEAR and masterfully influenced by the burgeoning giallo genre: Recovering from a recent nervous breakdown, a young London newlywed (Judy Geeson of 10 RILLINGTON PLACE) moves to the country where her teacher husband (Ralph Bates of TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) has taken a new job at a boys’ school. But when she’s repeatedly attacked by a one-armed, black-gloved maniac, nobody – including the sinister headmaster (Peter Cushing) and his jealous wife (Joan Collins) – will believe her. Intense scenes, outstanding performances and dark twists abound in this “radical departure from Hammer tropes” (Warped Perspective) co-written and produced by Sangster, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal with nearly 8 hours of new and archival Special Features.
Disc 5: FEAR IN THE NIGHT UHD
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Producer/Co-Writer/Director Jimmy Sangster, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With David Flint, Author Of Ten Years Of Terror: British Horror Films Of The Seventies And Mayhem Film Festival's Chris Cooke
- Peter Cushing Discusses Hammer In Archival Audio Interview With Denis Meikle, Author Of A History Of Horrors: The Rise & Fall Of The House Of Hammer
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 94 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- 4K Video: Dolby Vision
- Region Free
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Disc 6: FEAR IN THE NIGHT Blu-ray
Special Features:
- Audio Commentary With Producer/Co-Writer/Director Jimmy Sangster, Moderated By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- Audio Commentary With David Flint, Author Of Ten Years Of Terror: British Horror Films Of The Seventies And Mayhem Film Festival's Chris Cooke
- Peter Cushing Discusses Hammer In Archival Audio Interview With Denis Meikle, Author Of A History Of Horrors: The Rise & Fall Of The House Of Hammer
- The Gaslighter’s Playbook: Real And Imagined Horrors In FEAR IN THE NIGHT – Video Essay By Dr. Alexandra Heller Nicholas
- Fun In The Day – Interviews With Camera Operator Neil Binney And Production Runner Philip Campbell
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
- Runtime: 94 mins
- Audio: English Mono
- Subtitles: English SDH
- Region Free
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Disc 7: Bonus Blu-ray
Special Features:
- HAMMER AND BEYOND: THE JIMMY SANGSTER LEGACY – 2026 Documentary By Hammer Historian Marcus Hearn
- The Man From Bristol: Ralph Bates Remembered – Interviews With Actress/Wife Virginia Wetherell And Composer/Son Will Bates, Narrated By LUST FOR A VAMPIRE Co-Star Judy Matheson
- Joan Collins: Queen Of The Horror Films – Interviews With House Of Psychotic Women Author Kier-La Janisse And Telefilm Historian Amanda Reyes
- Hammer In The U.S.A. – Film Historian C. Courtney Joyner On The Studio's Stateside Distribution
- Hammer Scribe – Archival Interview With Director Jimmy Sangster
- Sapphic Blood Suckers: A Cinematic History Of The Lesbian Vampire Trope With Annie Rose Malamet, Film Scholar And Host Of Girls, Guts, Giallo
- I Coined "The Karnstein Trilogy" – Interview With David Pirie, Author Of A Heritage Of Horror
