Dan Curtis' 'Dead of Night', 'Late-Night Mysteries', 'Classic Monsters' and 'Gothic Tales' Coming to Blu-ray
Dan Curtis'
Dead of Night
Coming to Blu-ray October 28
from Kino Lorber Studio Classics
Dan Curtis' Late-Night Mysteries
Coming to Blu-ray September 30
Dan Curtis' Classic Monsters
Coming to Blu-ray October 28
and Dan Curtis' Gothic Tales
Coming to Blu-ray December 2025
from Kino Cult
AVAILABLE ON BLU-RAY OCTOBER 28
Dead of Night
Format: Blu-ray
From the legendary dark minds of producer-director Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker, Trilogy of Terror) and writer Richard Matheson (Tales of Terror, The Last Man on Earth, The Twilight Zone) comes this thrilling triptych of spellbinding stories.
Second Chance – After buying an antique automobile, Frank (Ed Begley Jr.) restores the vehicle to its original condition. Along with the car, Frank is suddenly transported back in time to the year 1926. Based on a story by Jack Finney (Invasion of the Body Snatchers).
No Such Thing as a Vampire – Alexis (Anjanette Comer), the mistress of an old mansion, is terrified of vampires. When her husband (Patrick Macnee) calls in a friend (Horst Buchholz) to examine her, a macabre and bloody scheme unfolds.
Bobby – In the dead of night, a boy (Lee H. Montgomery), thought to be deceased, surprises his despondent mother (Joan Hackett) at the family beach house, bringing her both extreme joy and overwhelming terror.
Bonus Features:
- NEW Audio Commentary by Audio Commentary by Novelist and Critic Tim Lucas
- Introduction by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis
- Dead of Night - A Darkness At Blaisedon (HD Up-Res): 1969 TV Pilot (51:53)
- Robert Cobert's Music Score Highlights
- No Such Thing as a Vampire: Deleted Scenes
- Deleted Extended Opening Title Sequence
- Newly Commissioned Cover Art by Tom Hodge/The Dude Designs
- Optional English Subtitles
Dan Curtis' Late-Night Mysteries
Format: Blu-ray
Street Date: September 30, 2025
Perhaps no figure exerted a greater influence on 1970s television horror than Dan Curtis. Having created the daytime drama Dark Shadows (1966-71), and while producing popular primetime TV movies (The Night Stalker, The Norliss Tapes), his company produced stand-alone thrillers for ABC Television’s Wide World of Mystery. Originally shot on videotape, the four productions in this collection have been carefully adapted to HD for this Blu-ray release.
Shadow of Fear stars Claude Akins (B.J. and the Bear) as a disgraced police officer hired to investigate crimes surrounding a psychologically troubled housewife (Anjanette Comer)
In The Invasion of Carol Enders, the spirit of a car crash victim is reincarnated into the body of another patient (Meredith Baxter, Family).
Come Die With Me follows the cat-and-mouse relationship between a cavalier playboy (George Maharis, Route 66) and the housekeeper who tries to blackmail him (Eileen Brennan, Private Benjamin).
A wholesome family experiences a Kafkaesque miscarriage of justice when they are accused of drug trafficking in Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest.
Bonus Features:
- Introductions to All Four Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of House of Dan Curtis: The Television Mysteries of the Dark Shadows Auteur
- Shadow of Fear Commentary by Amanda Reyes, Author of Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium 1964-1999
- The Invasion of Carol Enders Commentary by Television Historian Scott Skelton
- Come Die WIth Me Commentary by Author/Podcaster Dan Budnik and Film Historian Robert Kelly
- Nightmare at 43 Hillcrest - Commentary by Film Historian Amanda Reyes and Heidi Honeycutt, Author of I Spit on Your Celluloid: The History of Women Directing Horror Movies
Dan Curtis' Classic Monsters
Format: Blu-ray
Street Date: October 28, 2025
Widely acclaimed for having modernized television horror in the 1960s and ’70s, producer Dan Curtis (Dark Shadows, The Night Stalker) also embraced more traditional approaches. This special edition presents Curtis’s made-for-TV versions of the three foundational monsters of filmdom.
Adapted by Richard Matheson (Somewhere in Time) and starring Jack Palance (Shane), Dracula was filmed in Eastern Europe and was the first film to make a connection between Bram Stoker’s vampire and Vlad the Impaler.
Bo Svenson (Part 2: Walking Tall) portrays the heartbreakingly childlike monster of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde features a ferocious performance by Palance as the scientist who unbridles the deepest, darkest urges of the human animal.
Bonus Features:
- Introductions to All Films by Jeff Thompson, Author of The Television Horrors of Dan Curtis
- Dracula Audio Commentary by Mark Dawidziak
- Dracula Interview with Actor Jack Palance
- Dracula Interview with Producer/Director Dan Curtis
- Dracula Spanish language soundtrack
- Dracula Alternate Footage and Scenes
- Frankenstein Audio Commentary by Film Scholar Rodney F. Hill (Hofstra University)
- Frankenstein Audio Commentary with Actors Robert Foxworth (Victor Frankenstein) and John Karlen (Otto Roget)
- Frankenstein ABC-TV Wide World of Mystery Promos
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Audio Commentary by Author, Artist and Film Historian Steve Bissette
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Interview with Makeup Effects Artist Dick Smith
COMING TO BLU-RAY DECEMBER 2025
Dan Curtis' Gothic Tales
Format: Blu-ray
Featuring The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) and The Turn of the Screw (1974)
