The directorial debut of the great Joseph L Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Suddenly, Last Summer), Dragonwyck is a glorious melding of Gothic chills and baroque melodrama. A beautiful Connecticut farm girl (Gene Tierney) finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy of madness, murder and intrigue after she agrees to become governess and nurse to the family of her distant cousin (Vincent Price).

Echoing Hitchcock’s Rebecca (1940), and reuniting stars Tierney and Price for the third time in as many years (having previously starred together in Otto Preminger’s Laura, 1944, and John M Stahl’s Leave Her to Heaven, 1945), Dragonwyck is a magnificently creepy chiller with a career-defining performance by Price, luminous cinematography by the legendary Arthur C Miller, and a wonderful Alfred Newman score.

Extras

• Two presentations of the film: the 2017 4K restoration, and the legacy High Definition remaster
• Original mono audio
• The John Player Lecture with Vincent Price (1969, 76 mins): archival audio recording of the celebrated actor in conversation at London’s National Film Theatre
• Audio commentary with film historian Steve Haberman and filmmaker Constantine Nasr
• A House of Secrets: Exploring ‘Dragonwyck’ (2008, 17 mins): documentary featuring interviews with filmmaker Tom Mankiewicz, horror and fantasy authors Stephen Jones and Kim Newman, and others
• Lux Radio Theatre: ‘Dragonwyck’ (1946, 60 mins): vintage radio adaptation of Anya Seton’s novel, starring Vincent Price and Gene Tierney
• The Screen Guild Theater: ‘Dragonwyck’ (1947,  25 mins): vintage radio broadcast, starring Vincent Price and Theresa Wright
• Isolated music & effects track
• Original theatrical trailer
• Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography
• New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing