SCARS OF DRACULA - You Need It For the Commentary

Christopher Lee brandishing red hot steel in SCARS OF DRACULA.

Constantine Nasr's audio commentary for Shout! Factory's SCARS OF DRACULA is Aces - informed, eloquent, and more incisively critical than I probably would have been under the same circumstances. That said, he’s articulating conclusions reached with the aid of personal scripts annotated by the director and actors, different script drafts (allowing him to deduce the different hands that worked on SCARS, attributed singly to "John Elder"/Anthony Hinds, who seems to have relinquished his right to a final say), internal company correspondence, and more. It’s an important addition to Hammer research as well as an elegy to Hammer’s Silver Age period horror gothics, and a particularly clear appreciation of Hinds.

The film also looks great (made available in standard 1.78:1 and fuller 1.66:1 presentations), includes the "Inside SCARS OF DRACULA" featurette from the UK Sky Canal BD release, and the original Anchor Bay DVD commentary by star Christopher Lee and director Roy Ward Baker (both no longer with us) with input from moderator Marcus Hearn. 

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