Sangster Directs Hammer

4K UHD/Blu-ray

THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERES
OF 3 CLASSIC FILMS ON 7 DISCS
WITH AN ALL-NEW 312-PAGE BOOK 
AND 19 COMBINED HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES

With screenplays for such ‘50s/’60s Hammer Films classics as THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, HORROR OF DRACULA, THE MUMMY and more, he became one of the very best writers in the genre. But when Jimmy Sangster returned to Hammer in the ‘70s to direct the only feature films of his career, he delivered three of the most unique shockers in the studio’s history: In THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN starring Ralph Bates as the sociopathic monster maker, Sangster brings both black humor and deep red dismemberment to Mary Shelley’s iconic tale. Sangster takes fanged lesbian desires to seductive new levels with LUST FOR A VAMPIRE, featuring Yutte Stensgaard as the titular bloodsucker. Judy Geeson, Ralph Bates, Joan Collins and the legendary Peter Cushing star in Sangster’s acclaimed FEAR IN THE NIGHT, a taut psycho-thriller with a dark giallo edge. Each film is presented in UHD for the first time ever in North America, now scanned in 4K from their original camera negatives by StudioCanal. This collection also includes the 312-page book Horror! Lust! Fear! Sangster featuring essays, interviews, comic adaptations and more, plus 19 combined hours of comprehensive new & archival Special Features produced and curated by Severin Films.

 

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

 

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

 

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 & 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