Worldwide 4K UHD Debuts for Hammer Horror This Month
Making its worldwide 4K UHD debut this month is Fear in the Night, that while a departure from the Gothic horror that Hammer is known for, still proved a taut and tense psychological thriller.
FEAR IN THE NIGHT 4K UHD & BLU-RAY COLLECTOR’S EDITION RELEASED 23RD MARCH
SYNOPSIS: As Peggy (Judy Geeson) recovers from a nervous breakdown, she is attacked by an unseen, one-armed assailant. Shaken by the attack, Peggy and her new husband Robert (Ralph Bates) move to the country school where Robert teaches – a school they discover is completely deserted save for the headmaster (Peter Cushing) and his wife (Joan Collins). Despite moving away from London to the isolated school grounds, Peggy is once again assaulted by the one-armed attacker. When Robert is sent back to London on behalf of the headmaster, Peggy is left alone to face her fears…
Also making their worldwide 4K UHD premieres as part of StudioCanal’s Hammer Collector’s Edition range next month are the gruesome and eerie Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb, and the British folk horror gem Demons of the Mind:
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY’S TOMB 4K UHD & BLU-RAY COLLECTORS EDITION RELEASED 6TH APRIL
SYNOPSIS: At the moment archaeologist Julian Fuchs (Andrew Keir) and his expedition team discover the tomb of the evil ancient Egyptian Queen Tera (Valerie Leon), his daughter Margaret (also Leon) is born exactly in Tera’s image. Years later, Corbeck (James Villiers) wishes to resurrect Tera and use her immense power for his own nefarious ends. With Margaret’s help, they hunt down the relics required for the occult ceremony in which Tera’s soul, that has been sojourning in the identical body of Margaret, will be transferred to her preserved corpse…
DEMONS OF THE MIND 4K UHD & BLU-RAY COLLECTORS EDITION RELEASED 6TH APRIL
SYNOPSIS: Baron Zorn (Robert Hardy) is convinced that his son Emil (Shane Briant) and daughter Elizabeth (Gillian Hills) are suffering from a hereditary madness. In an attempt to contain their insanity, he keeps them imprisoned and drugged, yet these measures are not enough to stop his children from expressing their decadent desires and violent natures. Desperate for a cure, Zorn employs the discredited Dr. Falkenberg (Patrick Magee) to investigate his family’s plight…