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A literary classic becomes a horror classic at the hands of masters Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi and Val Lewton! Screen icon Boris Karloff plays the title role in the Val Lewton adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher, directed with subtle calculation by versatile Robert Wise (West Side Story, The Sound of Music). A doctor (Henry Daniell, The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake) needs cadavers for medical studies and Karloff is willing to provide them …one way or another. The film also features a wonderful supporting performance by fellow horror icon Bela Lugosi. Bonus Content: 4K Scan of the Original Camera Negative You'll Never Get Rid of Me: Resurrecting the Body Snatcher Audio Commentary with Director Robert Wise and Writer/Film Historian Steve Haberman Documentary – Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy Still Galleries – Posters, Lobby Cards, Movie Stills

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This double-feature disc brings together two of producer Val Lewton's classic RKO horror films, newly restored and remastered. In 1943's The Ghost Ship, Tom Merriam (Russell Wade), the young third mate on a freighter bound for Patagonia, witnesses the murder of a crewman by the ship's captain, Will Stone (Richard Dix). Merriam realizes Stone is going insane, but the rest of the crew won't believe him or that he may be the mad captain's next victim! Boris Karloff reunites with Lewton for a third and final time in 1946's Bedlam, set in 1761 at a London asylum. Karloff gives an unforgettable performance as the doomed overseer who fawns on high-society benefactors while ruling his mentally disturbed inmates with an iron fist. Newly restored from their original nitrate negatives, both showcase Nicolas Musuraca's cinematography under the inspired direction of Mark Robson.