Details
Four Sided Triangle (Limited Edition) 4K UHD + Blu-Ray Box Set (UK Import)
Hammer Films
Pre-order - Release date: 24.03.2025
Original title: Four Sided Triangle
Year: 1953
Country: UK
Region Code: 4K UHD: A/B/C; Blu-Ray: B
Content: 4K UHD + Blu-Ray
EAN: 5061058620034
Image: 1.37:1 (2160p)
HDR: -
Audio:
English - Dolby Atmos
English - 5.1
English - Monkey
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German
Age rating: PG
Genre: Science Fiction
Cast: Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray
Director: Terence Fisher
Synopsis:
Hollywood starlet Barbara Payton stars in this gripping sci-fi thriller, two brilliant scientists unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences. When they use their invention to clone the woman they both love, a dangerous love triangle ensues. With mind-bending twists and a chilling exploration of human nature, Four Sided Triangle blends classic British sci-fi with psychological suspense, proving that some inventions are best left unexplored. Never before seen on Blu-Ray in the UK, Four Sided Triangle makes its debut as a brand-new Hammer 4K restoration from the original negative film elements.
Extras:
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 archival 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.
