We’ve been having a proper look at Hammer Films’ excellent new 4K restoration boxset release of Four Sided Triangle, and it’s impressive! These fresh releases clearly indorses their new plan to bring cinematic cult classics to a dedicated Home Entertainment fanbase, so it’s great to see that John Gore Studios’ Hammer Films have not only restored the film, but it also takes the deep dive into both the creation of the film, and its heritage.

In Hammer Films’ sci-fi thriller Four Sided Triangle, we follow two scientists who unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences… oh yes! Co-written with Paul Tabori and directed by legendary Hammer Films creator, Terence Fisher (Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein) and originally released in 1953, it stars Hollywood actress Barbara Payton (Bride of the Gorilla) alongside James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John van Eyssen, Percy Marmont, Glyn Dearman, Sean Barrett and Jennifer Dearman.

The film itself, Four Sided Triangle, has been meticulously restored from the original film negatives and in the release we got a 2-disc set (1 x UHD disc and 1 x Blu-ray) in a slipcase, with artwork by UK illustrator Tommy Pocket. And you’ll see from our shots that it’s a lush set, with a host of excellent physical extras including an extensive booklet which contains new essays and reproduced material from the Hammer archives in the shape of brilliant facsimile reproductions of the UK and US pressbooks, plus a double-sided poster!

On the discs themselves, they don’t let up with the detail – which makes this all the more one of those wonderful limited collectors set. In fact, there’s so much on there, here’s a full rundown:

• New commentary with film and media historian Melanie Williams and film researcher and critic Thirza Wakefield.
• New commentary with actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic, and Kevin Lyons, editor of the Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Film and Television website.
• I Am Not Ashamed: Film historian Lucy Bolton takes an unvarnished look at Barbara Payton, her body of work and her riches-to-rags story of Hollywood excess in an unenlightened and censorious age.
• In the Sticks Sci-Fi!: William Fowler and Vic Pratt, creators/curators of the bfi’s ongoing Flipside series, discuss and deconstruct this key example of Hammer’s science-horror output.
• Things to Come: Film historian and writer Neil Sinyard examines Four Sided Triangle, its stars, direction and problematic sexual politics.
• An extensive image gallery, including behind-the-scenes images, alongside tracks from Malcolm Arnold’s score.

The booklet also has:

• New article by writer and actor Bruce G. Hallenbeck, examining the making of Four Sided Triangle.
• New article by novelist and screenwriter Gavin Collinson, examining the source for this Frankenstein-inspired story and its many adjacent films.
• New article by author and film expert Neil Sinyard, comparing the screenplay against noted sci-fi author William F. Temple’s source novel.
• An archive interview with Len Harris, Hammer’s stalwart camera operator and a key presence at Hammer for over a decade.
• A new in-depth examination of the attempts at remaking Four Sided Triangle in the 1990s (including reproduction production paperwork from the Hammer archive).

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