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The Hot Spot · Limited Edition

Best Release

Radiance Films

Releases 2026-08-17 · United Kingdom

Director

Dennis Hopper

Box Office

$1,293,976

What's in the box

Packaging
Keepcase · Full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip (leaving packaging free of certificates and markings). Reversible sleeve featuring original and new artwork by Time Tomorrow. Limited to 5000 copies.
In the box
Limited edition booklet featuring writing by critics Elena Lazic on the film, Leslie Byron Pitt on the erotic thriller genre and the film’s place within it, and an archival piece featuring an interview with Hopper by RJ Smith
Reversible sleeve with original and new artwork by Time Tomorrow
Discs
2 discs — 1 BD-66, 1 BD-50
Video
1.85:1 · Dolby Vision
Audio
English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
Subtitles
English HoH

Restoration

New 4K restoration from the original camera negative, presented in HDR / Dolby Vision.

Special features

Archival interview with Dennis Hopper discussing The Hot Spot, with footage of John Lee Hooker and set images (1991, 4 mins)
Interview with Virginia Madsen (2021, 7 mins)
Interview with William Sadler (2021, 6 mins)
Nick Dawson on Dennis Hopper and The Hot Spot — interview with the editor of Dennis Hopper: Interviews (2023, 20 mins)
Duane Swierczynski on Charles Williams’ source novel — crime writer's look at the adaptation and author background (2023, 25 mins)
Trailer

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