Horrible Dr Hichcock, The (UK Import Region B BLU-RAY)

UK Import. Blu-Ray disc is Region B locked and will only play on All Region Blu-Ray players.

One day the necrophiliac tendencies of Dr Hichcock (Robert Flemyng, The Quiller Memorandum) go too far and his wife dies from an overdose. Bereft, the doctor leaves his house but returns years later with a new wife, Cynthia (Barbara Steele, Black Sunday). The house they return to is eerie and Cynthia hears strange things, meanwhile, she doesn't realize Dr Hichcock intends to use her body to re-animate his dead wife's corpse. Released at the height of the Italian horror boom that was produced in the wake of the influence of Hammer's era-defining horror productions, director Riccardo Freda (The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire) and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (The Whip and the Body) create a dark and wicked gothic horror that brings in sly allusions to the work of Alfred Hitchcock while the period detail of Victorian London provides a lush backdrop.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

• New 2023 2K restoration of the film from the original negative presented in the 87-minute Italian version
• Audio commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Annie Rose Malamet
• New interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (2023)
• Visual essay on Bluebeard in gothic film by Miranda Corcoran (2023)
• An interview with Madeleine Le Despencer on necrophilia and taboo gothic (2023)
• Trailers
• Gallery