Classic horror anthologies Flesh and Fantasy and Dead of Night will be released in a limited edition Blu-ray box set on April 30 via Australia’s Imprint.
Julien Duvivier helms 1943’s Flesh and Fantasy. Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Betty Field, Robert Cummings, Robert Benchley, Thomas Mitchell, Charles Winninger, and Anna Lee star.
When a jittery businessman complains of a disturbing dream, a friend relates three stories to help calm his nerves. A homely dressmaker wears a mask of beauty to attract a man on Mardi Gras night; a fortune teller predicts an eminent lawyer will commit a murder; and a high-wire artist, haunted by a nightmare in which he suffers a fall, romances a woman who resembles the one he had seen in his dream.
Flesh and Fantasy special features:
- Audio commentary by film historians Rodney Barnett and Adrian Smith (new)
- Video essay by film scholar Joseph Dwyer (new)
- Interview with film historian Jon Towlson (new)
From directors Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, and Robert Hamer, Dead of Night stars Mervyn Johns, Sally Ann Howes, Roland Culver, Frederick Valk, Googie Withers, and Michael Redgrave.
Martin Scorsese named the 1945 effort as the fifth scariest horror film of all time.
A group of strangers, mysteriously gathered at an isolated estate, recount tales of the supernatural. A racer survives a brush with death only to receive premonitions from beyond the grave; an innocent game of hide-and-seek leads to an encounter with the macabre; a mirror unleashes a horrific power from its past; golfers compete for stakes that may haunt the winner forever; a ventriloquist’s dummy develops a mind of its own.
Dead of Night special features:
- Audio commentary by film historian Pamela Hutchinson (new)
- Interview with author John Llewellyn Probert (new)
- Interview with author Dr. David Huckvale (new)
- Remembering Dead of Night
- Stills Gallery
- Restoration Comparison
- Theatrical Trailer
Both films are presented in high definition with LPCM 2.0 Mono audio. They’re packaged in individual Blu-ray cases housed together in a hardbox, limited to 1,500.
