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  • Extras:
    DISC ONE (Blu-ray): Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror

    DISC TWO (Blu-ray): Eyes of Fire

    DISC THREE (Blu-ray): Leptirica and Devicanska Svirka

    DISC FOUR (Blu-ray)
    Witchhammer (Otakar Vávra, 1970; 106:49)
    Audio Commentary by Czech film historian and curator Irena Kovarova (2021)
    "The Projection Booth Podcast: Witchhammer" 2021 episode (#537) with host Mike White & guest critics Samm Deighan and Rahne Alexander (plays as an alternate audio track over the film) (62:18)
    "The Womb of Woman is the Gateway to Hell: An Appreciation of Witchhammer by Kat Ellinger" 2017 video essay (22:17)

    * The Film
    "From the Woods to the Cosmos: John Leman Riley on the History of Soviet Fantasy and Sci-Fi Film" 2019 interview (34:46)

    Silent Film Excerpts (Russian intertitles with English subtitles, 480i; with "Play All" option):
    - "The Portrait" (1917; 6:19) (incorrectly listed in the menu as "Satan Exultant")
    - "The Queen of Spades" (1916; 13:12)
    - "Satan Exultant" (1915; 15:36) (incorrectly listed in the menu as "The Portrait")
    Russian Theatrical Trailer (1:53)

    DISC FIVE (Blu-ray): Lake of the Dead and Tilbury

    DISC SIX (Blu-ray): The Dreaming and Kadaicha

    DISC SEVEN (Blu-ray): Celia and Alison's Birthday

    DISC EIGHT (Blu-ray): Wilczyca and Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach

    DISC NINE (Blu-ray): Clearcut

    DISC TEN (Blu-ray): Il demonio and Dark Waters

    DISC ELEVEN (Blu-ray): A Field in England and Anchoress

    DISC TWELVE (Blu-ray): Penda's Fen and Robin Redbreast

    DISC THIRTEEN (CD)
    "Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched" soundtrack by Jim Williams (62:49; 39 tracks):
    - 1. "Wounds That Were So Red" (1:06)
    - 2. "Hell is Deeper That the Sea" (3:00)
    - 3. "The Stalk is Withered Dry" (3:20)
    - 4. "A Grave Long, Wide and Deep" (1:20)
    - 5. "He Shall Sing Us a Mass" (5:22)
    - 6. "Mantle of Red Scarlet" (1:32)
    - 7. "Order of the Coffin Opened Wide" (2:20)
    - 8. "The Darkling Thrush" (1:10)
    - 9. "Livelong Winter's Night" (1:40)
    - 10. "The Nine Witch Knots" (1:02)
    - 11. "The Mirk and the Midnight Hour" (1:06)
    - 12. "High Hanged Should He Be" (0:40)
    - 13. "An Ill Death May She Die" (0:46)
    - 14. "Penance I Will Give Thee None" (1:14)
    - 15. "If the Devil Won't Be Damned" (2:22)
    - 16. "I Saw Him Laid in Clay" (3:00)
    - 17. "She Wept Most Bitterly" (0:36)
    - 18. "This Cursed Hand of Mine" (0:54)
    - 19. "Heart's Blood ... "(3:00)
    - 20. "A Fire of Coals to Burn Her" (3:00)
    - 21. "… On the Ground" (3:00)
    - 22. "She the Fiend Did Name" (1:10)
    - 23. "Gone in the Devil's Name" (1:36)
    - 24. "The Stair it Was Full Fifteen Steps" (0:50)
    - 25. "A Great and Gruesome Beast" (1:51)
    - 26. "Lambkin" (1:06)
    - 27. "By Oak and Ash and Bitter Thorn" (0:54)
    - 28. "She Saw the Flames Ascending High" (2:07)
    - 29. "Your Eyes They Look So Dim" (2:02)
    - 30. "Eyes as Black as Sloe" (1:14)
    - 31. "The Hour of Gloaming Gray" (1:06)
    - 32. "Many a Widow Poor" (0:36)
    - 33. "Drinking of the Blood-Red Wine" (0:40)
    - 34. "The New Moon Clear" (0:52)
    - 35. "Pay for Fouling the Well" (0:26)
    - 36. "Witch of the Vilest Kind" (1:11)
    - 37. "I Have Come for to See You Hang" (0:54)
    - 38. "Vanished in a Cloud of Mist" (0:52)
    - 39. "There is a Place Prepared in Hell" (1:52)

    DISC FOURTEEN (CD)
    "The White People: Part 1" by Arthur Machen, read by Linda Hayden (43:12; 2 tracks):
    - Track 1 (19:30)
    - Track 2 (23:42)

    DISC FIFTEEN (CD)
    "The White People: Part 2" by Arthur Machen, read by Linda Hayden (50:14; 2 tracks):
    - Track 1 (44:52)
    - Track 2 (5:22)
  • Subtitles:
    English (for Russian), English HoH (for English)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.33:1
  • Picture Format:
    1080p24 AVC MPEG-4
  • Soundtrack(s):
    Russian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
    English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
  • Case type:
    Special Case
  • Notes:
    Extras are in English and in 1080p unless noted.
    HD restored master supplied by Mosfilm.
    Comes in a special case with a 126-page illustrated book curated by Janisse and designed by Luke Insect featuring all-new writings by renowned film scholars, authors and historians.
    The image ends at 75:32 with score playing out over black screen till 76:34.
    The silent excerpts run shorter than the single disc edition because they have been encoded at 30 frames per second while the latter were encoded at 24 frames per second.
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  • Extras:
    DISC ONE: Viy
    * The Film
    Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke (2021)
    "Samuel Goff on Nikolai Gogol" 2021 audio essay (15:05)
    "Remembering Nikolai Gogol" 1939 documentary (in Russian with forced English subtitles) (19:06)
    Russian Silent Film Fragments:
    - "The Portrait" (7:53)
    - "The Queen of Spades" (16:30)
    - "Satan Exultant" (19:30)
    Original 1967 Trailer (in English for export) (2:36)

    DISC TWO: A Holy Place
  • Subtitles:
    English (optional)
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.37:1
  • Picture Format:
    1080p24 AVC MPEG-4
  • Soundtrack(s):
    Russian LPCM 2.0 Mono (48kHz)
    English LPCM 2.0 Mono (48kHz)
  • Case type:
    Keep Case
  • Notes:
    All extras in 1080p.
    A limited pressing of 3,000 copies that includes an exclusive O-Card slipcase and the bonus disc two.
    Also comes with a 32-page liner notes booklet "Aleksandr Ptushko: Honest Tales of Bygone Days" by Tim Lucas and "A Holy Place" by Dejan Ognjanović. Also contains viewing notes, a special note and Blu-ray credits.
    The image ends at 75:30 and the score plays out over black until 76:30.

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