British label Nucleus Films had detailed its upcoming Blu-ray release of Ashley Thorpe's film Borley Rectory (2017), starring Jonathan Rigby, Reece Shearsmith, Annabel Bates, and Claire Louise Amias. The release will be available for purchase on October 14.
Synopsis: When Daily Mirror journalist V C Wall (Reece Shearsmith) calls upon the services of famed paranormal investigator Harry Price (Jonathan Rigby) to investigate supernatural 'goings on' at a Victorian mansion in Essex, little does he realise that he will set into motion a story that will fascinate and confound the world. 'Borley Rectory' is the true story of Price's investigation and the legends that came to haunt all those involved.
Borley Rectory is an animated documentary chronicling what came to be known as 'The most haunted house in England'. The legends attached to the rectory and famed paranormal investigator Harry Price's subsequent investigations of them, caught the public's imagination during the 1930s, in time becoming one of the world's most notorious ghost stories and influencing Shirley Jackson's 'The Haunting of Hill House' and Richard Matheson's 'Hell House'.
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"Haunted by the story for 40 years and a film subsequently 6 years in the making, 'Borley Rectory' was a labour of love, so there was never a chance of me handing it over to anyone who I didn't believe would do it justice. The Nucleus release of 'Borley Rectory' is everything I could have hoped for and more. Not only does it feature a pristine transfer of the film, it also boasts an incredibly in-depth, highly entertaining and informative feature-length 'making of' covering not just the colourful production of the film, but the journey that led me there. Nucleus also allowed and encouraged me to dig deeper into both the legend and the obsessions that led to the film being made. The disc is literally groaning with extras; ghost related featurettes, in-depth interviews with Borley experts, insights from Stephen Volk, Reece Shearsmith and Jonathan Rigby, and an exclusive interview with the publishers of the children's book that started this journey way back in 1979. Borley Rectory was the Mount Everest of hauntings. This Blu-
ray is the Everest of releases."
– Ashley Thorpe, Director of BORLEY RECTORY
SPECIAL FEATURES:
Audio Commentary 1. Ashley Thorpe and Kevin Lyons
Audio Commentary 2. Johnny Mains
Ultrasound of a Haunting: The Making of Borley Rectory (80 mins TBC)
Haunted Generation: The Legacy of Usborne's World of the Unknown Series (30 mins)
The History of Borley Rectory: The Most Haunted House in England (with Stewart Evans, Paul Adams and Eddie Brazil) (60 mins)
Anatomy of a Scene: Animating Borley Rectory (10 mins)
Celluloid Screams: On Stage Q&A with Ashley Thorpe & Nicholas Vince 20th October 2017 (32 mins)
At the Mercy of Ghosts: In Conversation with Stephen Volk (30 mins)
Night Visions: Borley Rectory in Helsinki (30 mins)
Reece Shearsmith & Jonathan Rigby: Q&A at the British Library (17 mins)
Grimmfest Interview (11 mins)
Conjuring the Spirits: Making the Borley Rectory Ouija (10 mins)