Horror of Dracula (Warner Archive Collection) (Limited Collector's Edition) (4K Ultra HD) PREORDER

Experience Hammer’s definitive horror classic as never before. Restored in stunning 4K from the best original archival materials, this landmark seven-disc edition of Horror of Dracula (a/k/a Dracula) reinstates footage believed missing for more than six decades, including material previously seen only during the film’s original Japanese theatrical release.

This lavish Limited Collector’s Edition features seven discs containing five versions of the film, including the uncensored U.K. and U.S. cuts and a unique editor’s workprint, alongside approximately 15 hours of brand-new and rare archival content. Housed in a premium slipcase, the set also includes a 200-page book, 60-page House of Hammer comic reprint, double-sided poster and eight replica cinema lobby cards.

Restored by Hammer Films and Silver Salt Restoration in partnership with the Warner Archive Collection, this is Horror of Dracula in its most complete form ever presented.

This Limited Collector's Edition comprises:

• Seven discs in a stylish digipak: two UHDs and five Blu-rays, with the UHD content duplicated on Blu-ray.
• Five iterations of Dracula: uncensored U.K. version, U.K. theatrical version, uncensored U.S. version (Horror of Dracula), U.S. theatrical version and editor's workprint.
• Brand-new 5.1 mix for both sets of uncensored and theatrical versions of the film, alongside the original mono soundtrack.
• Packaged in a high-end, leather-feel slipcase with debossed foil titling.
• Rigid inner box featuring new artwork by illustrator and artist Robert Sammelin.
• Double-sided poster.
• Eight art cards featuring facsimiles of the original cinema lobby cards.
• 200-page book featuring new articles on the film, cast and crew.
• 60-page comic featuring a reprint of the comic strip from the legendary 1970s magazine The House of Hammer.

Disc Content and Special Features:

• "Dracula Workprint": A unique Hammer artifact, this rough, work-in-progress version of the film was assembled during post-production and is almost certainly the element that went back and forth between Hammer and the BBFC as they haggled over cuts. No other Hammer workprints are known to exist.
• "Proving Them Wrong": The Christopher Lee that people saw in interviews was what he wanted the public to see—but that was not necessarily the man himself. Dame Harriet Walter, actor and Lee's niece, joins Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby to discuss their own experiences of this complex man, his life and his ambitions.
• "The Road to Dracula": Tony Dalton, author of Terence Fisher: Master of Gothic Cinema, writer Stephen Laws, Hammer expert and writer Wayne Kinsey and Little Shoppe of Horrors publisher Dick Klemensen examine Terence Fisher's pre-1957 work and the path that led him inexorably to Castle Dracula.
• "The Sound of Dracula": James Bernard biographer David Huckvale examines the man, his influences, his initial struggles and his relationship with both Hammer and the shadowy figure that followed him from childhood through to his final composed work: Dracula.
• "Victim of His Imagination": Written in the early 1970s, this Hammer script treatment about Dracula creator Bram Stoker remained unfilmed—until now. Adapted by actor/writer James Swanton, this dramatized reading channels the blood-and-thunder melodrama of a Henry Irving performance, bringing to life a tantalizing what-if from Hammer’s archive.
• "Gothic for Christians": Hellraiser star Doug Bradley narrates a brand-new video essay considering Terence Fisher’s personal convictions, directorial style and Gothic body of work for Hammer as a foundational influence on cinematic horror.
• "You Look Like a Teddy Bear Now": Actor Janina Faye, in conversation with Wayne Kinsey, looks back at her career and work for Hammer.
• "Janina Faye Reads Stoker": Archive featurette from 2012.
• "Bram, Dacre, and Dracula": Dacre Stoker—best-selling author, teacher and Bram's great-grand-nephew—discusses the ongoing relevance of Stoker's seminal novel and its many adaptations and reworkings.
• "James Bernard 1994 Interview": Archive interview courtesy of Manchester’s Festival of Fantastic Films.
• "Liberated After Dark?": Lucy Bolton, writer and film historian Pamela Hutchinson and Stacey Abbott, Professor of Film, discuss the importance of the female characters in Hammer's Dracula, the actors who portrayed them and the performances they gave.
• "Of Mod(el)s and Monsters": The iconic shot of Dracula disintegrating—now to be seen uncensored on this set—was created by special-effects wizard Sydney Pearson, a veteran of many Hammer and other British films. Wayne Kinsey and Dick Klemensen examine his work and legacy.
• "The Measure of a Hero": A video essay by Heather Wixson examining Peter Cushing's nuanced performance as Van Helsing and how it set the pattern for everything that followed.
• "Blood, Bites and Boundaries": Dr. Sian Barber, author and expert on cinema censorship, examines Hammer's run-ins with the BBFC over Dracula.
• "Park, Watch and Scream": Many Americans watched Dracula—and other Hammer films—in drive-in theaters, a viewing experience with no direct equivalent in the U.K. Guy Barefoot, film scholar and author, provides a primer on this particular slice of cultural Americana.
• "Dracula Jr.": Then-child actor Paul Cole reminisces about his time working at Bray on Dracula.
• "The Eagle Has Landed": Wayne Kinsey, the proud current owner of one of the stone eagles from Castle Dracula, tells its story.
• "Resurrecting Dracula": A behind-the-scenes look at how the new 4K restoration of the uncut version of Dracula was created.
• "Lords of Darkness": Jonathan Rigby and James Swanton candidly discuss and critique 20th-century filmed adaptations of Stoker's original novel and the problems inherent in adapting it well.
• "Sidebar": Film critic and writer Tim Lucas discusses Horror of Dracula with artist and writer Stephen R. Bissette.
• "World of Hammer": From Hammer's 1990 clip series, this episode gives an overview of Dracula and the undead. Narrated by Oliver Reed.
• "Dracula Reborn": Archive featurette from 2012 discussing the making of a Hammer classic.
• "The Demon Lover": Archive featurette from 2012 considering Stoker's original novel and its continued reinvention.
• "Censoring Dracula": Archive featurette from 2012 covering the BBFC's relationship with Hammer over Dracula.
• New commentary with Lucy Bolton, Professor of Film Philosophy, and actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic.
• New commentary with writers Lizbeth Myles and Paul Cornell, creators of the widely acclaimed Hammer House of Podcast.
• New commentary with writer/producer Dr. Steve Haberman and filmmaker and film historian Constantine Nasr.
• New commentary with writer, filmmaker and film programmer Heidi Honeycutt and cult-movie expert Toby Roan.
• New commentary with screenwriter Lauren Barnett and writer John Hamilton.
• Archive commentary with Hammer expert Marcus Hearn and Jonathan Rigby.
• "Film Materials": Censor card, clapperboards, titles, trailers and 8mm cutdowns.
• "Image Gallery": A gallery of stills and publicity material accompanied by tracks from James Bernard's score.

The Booklet comprises:

• New article: Bruce G. Hallenbeck looks at the making of Hammer’s definitive horror.
• New article: James Swanton discusses Don Houghton’s "Victim of His Imagination," which he has revived as a dramatized reading for this set.
• New article: Wayne Kinsey investigates Bernard Robinson and Don Mingaye’s superb set design.
• New article: Andy Murray takes a look at the top twelve films at the British box office for 1958.
• New article: Barry Forshaw remembers the time he was able to interview THE vampire.
• New article: Wayne Kinsey, in a companion piece to his larger article, takes a closer look at the sets created for Dracula.
• New article: Andy Murray unpicks an influential 1958 Variety article written following the success of Dracula.
• New article: Gayle Sequeira examines how Dracula departed from convention to create something quite revolutionary.
• New article: Wayne Kinsey compares Jimmy Sangster’s shooting script against the screen version of Hammer’s most (in)famous film.
• Archive Melissa Stribling interview from 1978.
• New article: Sarah Morgan profiles Melissa Stribling, who gave a standout performance as Mina in Sangster and Fisher’s Dracula.
• New article: Miriam Balanescu examines celluloid vampires, Christopher Lee’s Dracula and the rise of the romantic cannibal film.
• New article: Legendary horror writer Ramsey Campbell reminisces about his passion for horror films—and the frustration of trying to see them uncut in cinemas.

Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling & Carol Marsh
Directed by: Terence Fisher
Written by: Jimmy Sangster & Bram Stoker

4K UltraHD Details

• Aspect Ratios 16x9 1.66:1 (U.K. version entitled DRACULA), 16x9 1.85:1 (U.S. version entitled HORROR OF DRACULA)
• Audio: New 5.1 and original theatrical mono tracks
• 2 UHD-100 disc(s) & 5 BD-50 disc(s)
• Region:  ALL DISCS REGION FREE
  
• Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH, and French, Italian, Spanish, German and Japanese subtitles on each version of the film.
• Rated: Not Rated
• Closed captioning available
• Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
• Video: Color
• Released: October 27, 2026
• Originally Released: 1958
• Label: Warner Archive Collection