SEVERIN FEATURES HISTORIC SANGSTER/HAMMER COLLECTION,
WICKER MAN DOC & NEW PARTNER LABEL
LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ BOX SET
7-Disc SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER Box Set Joins Award-Winning Documentary CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN Plus Yellow Veil’s First Ever 4-Disc Collection
Severin Films today announced their new releases, led by the most exceptional Hammer Films collection ever released in North America: SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER is an epic 7-disc box set featuring the North American UHD Premieres of genre icon Jimmy Sangster’s THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN, LUST FOR A VAMPIRE and FEAR IN THE NIGHT with an unprecedented 18+ hours of Special Features including new documentary featurettes on Mary Shelley, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Ralph Bates, Dame Joan Collins and Jimmy Sangster; the all-new 312-page book Horror! Lust! Fear! Sangster designed by Stephen Thrower and featuring essays by Ramsey Campbell, David Gregory, Chris Alexander, Kat Ellinger and David Flint plus archival interviews with Kate O’Mara, Tudor Gates and Mike Raven, comic adaptations, copious color photos and much more, all in celebration of “one of the chief architects of the most successful British production company in history” (The Times).
In the Worldwide Disc Premiere of the “devastatingly intimate” (Filmhounds) documentary CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN, the sons of director Robin Hardy explore the unsettling legacy of their father’s classic film and personal demons. Also available is the new 232-page hardcover book Children Of The Wicker Man, featuring Robin Hardy’s long-unseen personal documents and photographs as well as original illustrations by Dominic Hardy. It’s available as a standalone purchase or as part of our essential Wicker Basket Bundle.
And from new partner label Yellow Veil Pictures comes the 4-disc THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ, featuring the award-winning French-Bosnian filmmaker’s modern classics INNOCENCE, EVOLUTION, EARWIG and THE ICE TOWER, with over 4 hours of fascinating Special Features and an all-new 60-page booklet of essays and appreciations.
Severin Films’ 20th Anniversary festivities continue as pre-orders for SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER, CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN and THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ – along with Dominic & Justin Hardy’s Children Of The Wicker Man book, new Severin Hall of Fame Pins, beguiling bundles and more – begin today at the Severin Webstore.
SANGSTER DIRECTS HAMMER
“THE MARK THAT JIMMY SANGSTER LEFT ON THE GENRE IS DEEPER THAN ANY VAMPIRE’S BITE.”
- Screen Anarchy
7-DISC COLLECTION
THE NORTH AMERICAN UHD PREMIERES
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 dismemberments 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 Horror! Lust! Fear! Sangster featuring essays, interviews, comic adaptations and more, plus over 18 combined hours of comprehensive new & archival Special Features produced and curated by Severin Films.
THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN
“DELICIOUSLY DARK AND NOT TO BE MISSED…
Jimmy Sangster injects the Frankenstein tale with more sex,
more violent death and a wicked sense of irreverence.”
- Classic Horror
2-DISC COLLECTION
WITH 5+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
Having written several of Hammer’s most iconic hits – including THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HORROR OF DRACULA – Jimmy Sangster returned to the legendary studio to direct his first feature, a new take on Mary Shelley’s classic tale of man, monster and mayhem with a grisly, cheeky twist: Ralph Bates (FEAR IN THE NIGHT, DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE) stars as Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant yet sociopathic young baron with a keen interest in anatomy – both warm females and fresh cadavers – who perverts the laws of science to construct a creature of horror. Kate O’Mara (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS), Veronica Carlson (DRACULA HAS RISEN FROM THE GRAVE), Jon Finch (THE FINAL PROGRAMME), Dennis Price (KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS) and Dave Prowse (STAR WARS) co-star in Sangster’s 1970 “good fun” (The New York Times) reinvention, scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal with over 5 hours of new and archival Special Features.
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
LUST FOR A VAMPIRE
“A MUST FOR HAMMER FANS, OBVIOUSLY…
A guilty pleasure thanks to its unabashed celebration of all the erotic vampire cliches.”
- Mondo Digital
2-DISC COLLECTION
WITH 5+ HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
The second feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is also the second film in Hammer’s unofficial ‘Karnstein Trilogy’ loosely based on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's novel Carmilla which introduced an overt sapphic dimension to the traditional vampire mythos: In an 18th century village ruled by superstition, townspeople fear the 40-year curse that is said to reawaken a vampire family dynasty. But when the nearby girls’ school welcomes a new pupil (luscious Danish starlet Yutte Stensgaard) with a taste for her fellow young maidens, the forces of darkness will soon seek the blood of the innocent. Ralph Bates (THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN), Suzanna Leigh (THE LOST CONTINENT), Barbara Jefford (THE NINTH GATE) and Mike Raven (CRUCIBLE OF TERROR) co-star in this “perfect midnight chiller” (DVD Talk) written by Tudor Gates (THE VAMPIRE LOVERS, TWINS OF EVIL), scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal with nearly 6 hours of new and archival Special Features.
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 Churche
-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
FEAR IN THE NIGHT“EASILY THE BEST OF THE THREE FILMS SANGSTER DIRECTED FOR HAMMER… An undeniably effective mystery with seriously good acting,some bravura sequences and a haunting final scene.”- Horror Cult Films3-DISC COLLECTIONWITH 8 HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
The third and final feature directed by Jimmy Sangster is a sly nod to DIABOLIQUE, a deft reworking of his earlier Hammer script for SCREAM OF FEAR and masterfully influenced by the burgeoning giallo genre: Recovering from a recent nervous breakdown, a young London newlywed (Judy Geeson of 10 RILLINGTON PLACE) moves to the country where her teacher husband (Ralph Bates of TASTE THE BLOOD OF DRACULA) has taken a new job at a boys’ school. But when she’s repeatedly attacked by a one-armed, black-gloved maniac, nobody – including the sinister headmaster (Peter Cushing) and his jealous wife (Joan Collins) – will believe her. Intense scenes, outstanding performances and dark twists abound in this “radical departure from Hammer tropes” (Warped Perspective) co-written and produced by Sangster, now scanned in 4K from the original camera negative by StudioCanal with nearly 8 hours of new and archival Special Features.
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 AND 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
Z 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
CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN
“★★★★
A DEEPLY EMOTIONAL TOUR-DE-FORCE… A devastatingly intimate look at obsession, loss and triumph
that brings new depth to THE WICKER MAN story.”
- Filmhounds
THE WORLDWIDE DISC PREMIERE
With his 1973 directorial debut, Robin Hardy fought to craft what would eventually be recognized as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. But for his loved ones, Hardy created a very different kind of nightmare. Now art historian Dominic Hardy and filmmaker Justin Hardy (A FEAST AT MIDNIGHT) – half-brothers and self-described “far-flung spawn” – explore their late father’s complicated legacy in this “incredibly brave and touching documentary that will take you on a journey unlike any you’ve been on before” (MovieJawn): Through stacks of decades-old correspondence, a pilgrimage to the original locations and new interviews with friends, family and the movie’s surviving personnel, Robin’s sons uncover the personal costs of the film’s chaotic production, their father’s war with the studio British Lion, his bitter falling-out with friend, business partner and screenwriter Anthony Shaffer, the financial and sexual improprieties that tore families apart and their own lifelong traumas as CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN.
Special Features for CHILDREN OF THE WICKER MAN:
- Audio Interview With Co-Directors Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy And Chris Nunn, Moderated By David Gregory, Director Of THE WICKER MAN ENIGMA
- Q&A With Co-Directors Justin Hardy, Dominic Hardy And Chris Nunn And Producer Alison Palmer
- Making-Of Featurette
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 96 mins
Audio: English 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH
Region A/B/C
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ
“ONE OF THE MOST DISTINCTIVE, ENCHANTINGLY SINISTER BODIES OF WORK IN MODERN FILM.”
- British Film Institute
4-DISC COLLECTION
WITH 4+ COMBINED HOURS OF SPECIAL FEATURES
AND 60-PAGE BOOKLET OF ESSAYS & APPRECIATIONS
THE WORLDS OF LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ presents an immersive journey through the filmography of Lucile Hadžihalilović, “an artist of radical gentleness whose films each resemble a delicately poisoned fairy tale” (Le Monde). Originally known for her collaborations as editor and producer for longtime partner Gaspar Noé, writer/director Hadžihalilović’s own internationally acclaimed quartet of modern classics crafts poetically surreal tales where dreams and nightmares are layered in embraces of tenderness and terror. Two of the four films in this collection are North American Blu-ray Premieres and include over 4 combined hours of fascinating Special Features and a 60-page booklet with all-new essays by Saffron Maeve, Alison Taylor and Stephen Thrower.
INNOCENCE
“BEAUTIFUL AND PROVOCATIVE…
A mesmerizing work that is at once eerie and beautiful, a film that often seems like PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK as directed by David Lynch.”
- Reeling Reviews
THE NORTH AMERICAN BLU-RAY PREMIERE
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s breakthrough debut is a dreamlike descent into a secluded boarding school where nostalgia and dread intertwine for “a surreal and unexpectedly euphoric” (Sight & Sound) examination of young sisterhood. César, BAFTA and Academy Award® winner Marion Cotillard stars in this “haunting and hypnotic fairy tale” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) that Indiewire hails as “at once a feminist parable and bedtime story that unfolds like a crouching animal, waiting to pounce.” INNOCENCE is accompanied by two of Hadžihalilović’s acclaimed shorts, DE NATURA and NECTAR, both featuring personal introductions. Viewers can further explore this world through "Innocence Explained" by young actress Zoé Auclair, a scholarly video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and a Q&A recorded at the IFC Center In October 2025.
Disc 1: INNOCENCE
Special Features:
- Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Short Film DE NATURA With Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Short Film NECTAR With Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Innocence Explained By Actress Zoé Auclair
- Video Essay By Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
- Q&A At The IFC Center
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 122 mins
Audio: French Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EVOLUTION
“AN IMPECCABLE, CREEPY AND GENUINELY TRANSPORTING MOVIE.”
- The New York Times
Lucile Hadžihalilović’s second feature is minimalist body horror about a boy who uncovers a mysterious world of inhuman biology and haunting transformation. Julie-Marie Parmentier (MURDEROUS MAIDS, FAREWELL MY QUEEN) stars in the startling film that has been described as “a gynocentric nightmare” (Chicago Reader), “a singular, daring vision” (Arizona Republic) and “a wondrous dream constantly on the verge of a nightmare” (Indiewire). This disc provides deep technical insight with a discussion between Hadžihalilović and cinematographer Manu Dacosse, alongside an interview with co-writer Alanté Kavaïté.
Disc 2: EVOLUTION
Special Features:
- Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Discussion Between Cinematographer Manu Dacosse And Director Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Interview With Writer Alanté Kavaïté
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 81 mins
Audio: French Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
EARWIG
“IT SPLITS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TENDERNESS AND TERROR.”
- The Ringer
THE NORTH AMERICAN BLU-RAY PREMIERE
The third feature and English-language debut by “the emergent champion of slow-burn, surrealist cinema” (The Guardian) is a Kafkaesque fable of fatherhood, isolation and teeth made of ice. Paul Hilton (LADY MACBETH), Romola Garai (SUFFRAGETTE) and Alex Lawther (THE IMITATION GAME) star in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s surreal neo-noir that The New York Times calls “a trip down the darkest of rabbit holes,” accompanied by what Sight & Sound hails as “enigmatic, oneiric visions that burrow their way into darker crevices of the viewer’s consciousness.” Adapted from the novel by Brian Catling (The Vorrh), EARWIG is deconstructed through Special Features that include interviews with the director, co-writer Geoff Cox and cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg.
Disc 3: EARWIG
Special Features:
- Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Interview With Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Interview With Co-Writer Geoff Cox
- Interview With Cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 114 mins
Audio: English Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English Closed Captions
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
THE ICE TOWER
“HADŽIHALILOVIĆ’S MOST ACCESSIBLE FILM TO DATE…
A hypnotic mediation of coruscating, crystalline beauty. This is not so much a film you watch as one you wake up from, shivering.”
- RogerEbert.com
Two decades after the stunning breakthrough of INNOCENCE, Marion Cotillard reunites with writer/director Lucile Hadžihalilović for her award-winning fourth feature, a meta-fantasy freely inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen. Clara Pacini, August Diehl (INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS) and Gaspar Noé co-star in this “mesmerizing and unnerving masterpiece in which reality, cinema and fantasy become one of a kind” (Collider) from “a filmmaker with an uncompromising voice — one that continues to whisper strange, scary things into our ears” (The Hollywood Reporter). This final disc contains introspective content, including an interview by Beatrice Loayza, two additional Q&As from the IFC Center, a second video essay by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and a technical interview with Jonathan Ricquebourg.
Disc 4: THE ICE TOWER
Special Features:
- Introduction By Lucile Hadžihalilović
- Interview With Cinematographer Jonathan Ricquebourg
- Interview With Lucile Hadžihalilović By Beatrice Loayza
- 2 Q&As At The IFC Center
- Video Essay By Alexandra Heller- Nicholas
- Trailer
Disc Specs:
Runtime: 117 mins
Audio: French & English Dolby DTS HD-Master Audio
Subtitles: English
Region A
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
*Includes 60-page booklet The Worlds of Lucile Hadžihalilović featuring all-new essays by Saffron Maeve, Alison Taylor and Stephen Thrower.
