Released: 22nd July 2024. When American student Stephen Reinhart (Nick Adams) arrives in the English village of Arkham to visit his fiancé Susan Witley (Suzan Farmer), he has no idea of the horrors awaiting within. Invited by Susan's mysteriously ill mother (Freda Jackson), Stephen is greeted acrimoniously by Susan’s father, Nahum (Boris Karloff), who makes it clear this visit is an unwelcome intrusion to the ornately furnished halls of the Witley estate, for Nahum is hiding a dangerous secret.
A meteorite has crash landed in the gardens, scorching the earth and emitting a mutating radiation that has transformed the greenhouse plants to pulsating giants, with horrifying and sickening side effects to the residents.Based on HP Lovecraft's story 'The Colour Out of Space', Die, Monster, Die! is a British horror contaminated with mystery and shock.
Extras
Presented in High Definition
Audio commentary by Vic Pratt and William Fowler (2024): newly recorded audio commentary by the founders of the ‘TheBFI Flipside’ and authors of The Bodies Beneath: The Flipside of British Film & Television
Scenes From 'Let Me Die a Monster' (2024, 15 mins): sequences from Ken Hollings and David McGillivray’s unmade biopic of Die, Monster, Die! co-star Nick Adams, performed in a read-through staged and shot exclusively for this release
Nick Adams and Die, Monster, Die! (2024, 10 min): Ken Hollings and David McGillivray recall the career of Nick Adams and how they became fascinated with his film work
A Karloff Konversation (2024): Boris Karloff’s biographer, Stephen Jacobs, discusses the film
Sell, Monster, Sell! (2024): film unit publicist Tony Tweedale recalls his work on Die, Monster, Die!
The Peaches (1964, 16 mins): a family greenhouse yields strange fruit in this stylish Swinging Sixties short film
Image gallery: an extensive array of promotional stills from Die, Monster, Die!
Theatrical trailer, with optional audio commentary by Vic Pratt and William Fowler
**FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet with new writing on the film by Stephen Jacobs, an essay on HP Lovecraft by Xavier Aldana Reyes and writing about Let Me Die a Monster by Ken Hollings and David McGillivray
