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The City Of The Dead (1959)

Monday 20th March 2017

With a brand new 4K restoration from the original negative, the wonderfully atmospheric and still shocking slice of horror that stands firmly alongside its Hammer contemporaries, The City of the Dead is released on dual-format DVD and Blu-ray on 24th April 2017 from Arrow Video.
Christopher Lee, Dennis Lotis, Patricia Jessel, Tom Naylor, Betta St. John, Venetia Stevenson
John Moxey
Milton Subotsky, Max Rosenberg
Arrow Video
1 hour 18 minutes
24/04/2017
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Christopher Lee was already a horror icon when he started filming The City of the Dead in 1959. Having played Frankenstein's Monster, Count Dracula and The Mummy for Hammer, this new picture would allow him to extend his range to the American Gothic and witchcraft in a small New England village...

Lee plays Professor Driscoll, an authority on the occult who persuades one of his students (Venetia Stevenson) to research his hometown, Whitewood, once the site of witch burnings in the 17th century. Booking herself into the Raven's Inn, she soon learns that devil worship among the locals hasn't been consigned to the past.

Produced by future Amicus founders Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg, and beautifully shot by Desmond Dickinson (whose credits ranged from Laurence Olivier's Hamlet to Horrors of the Black Museum), The City of the Dead is a wonderfully atmospheric and still shocking slice of horror that stands firmly alongside its Hammer contemporaries.

The City of the Dead is released on dual-format DVD and Blu-ray on 24th April 2017 from Arrow Video.

  • Brand new 4K restoration of the film from the original negative
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
  • New 4K digital restoration by the Cohen Film Collection and the BFI
  • High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations of two versions of the film: The City of the Dead and the alternative US cut, Horror Hotel
  • Uncompressed Mono 1.0 PCM Audio
  • Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Audio commentary by film critic Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015 and Christopher Lee: The Authorised Screen History, recorded exclusively for this release
  • Audio commentary by actor Christopher Lee
  • Audio commentary by director John Llewellyn Moxey
  • Interview with Lee
  • Interview with Moxey
  • Interview with actor Venetia Stevenson
  • Gallery
  • Trailer
  • Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys

Please note - Disc special features are subject to change, may differ from format to format and/or may differ from region to region.

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