Abominable Snowman, The (UK Import BLU-RAY) Release Date September 1/26
UK Import. Blu-Ray discs are Region Free, should play on any Blu-Ray player.
Hammer legend Peter Cushing and Hollywood hard-man Forrest Tucker give powerful performances as a well-meaning scientist and an arrogant entrepreneur, both intent on trapping the fabled Yeti, in Hammer's The Abominable Snowman.
Re-teaming Quatermass creator Nigel Kneale and BAFTA-winning director Val Guest, this thrilling fantasy horror has been painstakingly restored by Hammer in 4K from the best available film elements.
Dr Rollason and his team, on a scientific expedition in the Himalayas, are guests at an isolated monastery. Then a second expedition turns up – intent on trapping the legendary Yeti in a money-making venture.
This edition comprises:
- New commentary on The Abominable Snowman with actor and comedian Toby Hadoke and Nigel Kneale’s biographer Andy Murray.
- New commentary on The Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas with cult movie expert Toby Roan and Cereal at Midnight podcaster Heath Holland.
- Archive 1999 commentary featuring writer Nigel Kneale, director Val Guest and Hammer expert Marcus Hearn and Ted Newsom
- New audio essay on big monsters in film by celluloid cryptid expert Stephen R. Bissette.
- Abominable!: New documentary on the making of The Abominable Snowman, with contributions from Toby Hadoke, Andy Murray, Wayne Kinsey, Dick Klemensen, Richard Hollis and Jon Dear.
- Exhuming the Creature: New documentary on the making on long-since-lost TV play The Creature, on which The Abominable Snowman was based, with contributions from Toby Hadoke, Andy Murray, Gavin Collinson, Richard Holliss, Jon Dear and Hannah Cooper.
- The Art of Design: New documentary on design maestro Bernard Robinson and the design and set-building carried out by Hammer on films such as this. With Hammer expert Wayne Kinsey.
- The Legend of the Yeti: New documentary on cinema's passion for rampaging cryptids, with contributions from director/producer/actor/writer Ted A. Bohus, writer/editor Mike Gingold, artist and film historian Stephen R. Bissette and writer/director/producer Casey Walker
- At the Edge of Understanding: New video essay by Heather Wixson on why less-is-more in films with big monsters – and how Val Guest put that theory into practice
- Captured!: On-set photographs taken during production by Nigel Kneale when he visited Bray and Pinewood.
- Sidebar: The Abominable Snowman. Film critic and writer Tim Lucas discusses this and similar films of the period with Stephen R. Bissette.
- Archive interview with Val Guest from 2002.
- Archive audio interview with Val Guest from 1988.
- Archive audio interview with Rudolph Cartier from 1991.
- Original trailer and censor card.
- Extensive image gallery of stills and publicity material.
special features and artwork subject to potential change