3 films directed by Val Guest from the 1950s, on 4K Blu-ray, ranked S to D by transfer quality.
dir. Val Guest
Hammer's first color feature, a 1954 Robin Hood Eastmancolor swashbuckler from Val Guest, restored in 4K from the original negatives. The Limited Collector's Edition pairs it with a 4K restoration of Wolfshead, the 1969 unaired Robin Hood TV pilot Hammer bought as a second feature. A-Tier on avforums at 8/10, Region ABC.
Hammer Films · Limited Edition
The film that put Hammer on the horror/sci-fi map, and their own 4K is the definitive edition. Five discs with three cuts (UK Theatrical, As-Filmed, and the re-titled US "Creeping Unknown"), plus the surviving BBC 1953 serial episodes packaged with the film for the first time. A-Tier on avforums.
Hammer Films · Limited Collector's Edition
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.