Four Sided Triangle Limited Collector’s Edition
Four Sided Triangle Limited Collector’s Edition

Four Sided Triangle Limited Collector’s Edition

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Hollywood starlet Barbara Payton stars in this gripping early sci-fi thriller from Hammer. Featuring a stunning new 4K restoration, this exclusive UHD Blu-Ray boxset comes with additional content and archival material.


Release date 31st March 2025

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Hollywood starlet Barbara Payton stars in this gripping sci-fi thriller, two brilliant scientists unlock the secret to duplicating life, only to find their actions have deadly consequences. When they use their invention to clone the woman they both love, a dangerous love triangle ensues. With mind-bending twists and a chilling exploration of human nature, Four Sided Triangle blends classic British sci-fi with psychological suspense, proving that some inventions are best left unexplored.  Never before seen on Blu-Ray in the UK, Four Sided Triangle makes its debut as a brand-new Hammer 4K restoration from the original negative film elements. 

Co-written and directed by Hammer legend Terence Fisher, Four Sided Triangle is available to Pre-Order on 14th February and will be released on 31st March.

This limited collector's edition comprises:

  • Two disks in a stylish digipak, one UHD and one Blu-Ray with the content duplicated across both formats, with English, French, Italian, Spanish, German subtitles on each version of the film.
  • A rigid box featuring brand new artwork by UK illustrator Tommy Pocket.
  • An extensive booklet containing new essays and reproduced material from the Hammer archives.
  • Facsimile reproductions of the UK and US pressbooks and a double-sided poster.

The disks features:

  • New commentary with film and media historian Melanie Williams and film researcher and critic Thirza Wakefield.
  • New commentary with actor and film historian Jonathan Rigby, author of English Gothic, and Kevin Lyons, editor of the Encyclopaedia of Fantastic Film and Television website.
  • I Am Not Ashamed: Film historian Lucy Bolton takes an unvarnished look at Barbara Payton, her body of work and her riches-to-rags story of Hollywood excess in an unenlightened and censorious age.
  • In the Sticks Sci-Fi!: William Fowler and Vic Pratt, creators/curators of the bfi’s ongoing Flipside series, discuss and deconstruct this key example of Hammer’s science-horror output.
  • Things to Come: Film historian and writer Neil Sinyard examines Four Sided Triangle, its stars, direction and problematic sexual politics.
  • An extensive image gallery, including behind-the-scenes images, alongside tracks from Malcolm Arnold’s score.

The booklet features:

  • New article by writer and actor Bruce G. Hallenbeck, examining the making of Four Sided Triangle.
  • New article by novelist and screenwriter Gavin Collinson, examining the source for this Frankenstein-inspired story and its many adjacent films.
  • New article by author and film expert Neil Sinyard, comparing the screenplay against noted sci-fi author William F. Temple’s source novel.
  • An archive interview with Len Harris, Hammer’s stalwart camera operator and a key presence at Hammer for over a decade.
  • A new in-depth examination of the attempts at remaking Four Sided Triangle in the 1990s (including reproduction production paperwork from the Hammer archive).
  • Reproductions of the UK and US Pressbooks.
  • A double-sided poster.

The features, packaging and specification on this page are not final and are subject to change.

Language English (Atmos / 5.1 / Mono / English)
Number of discs 2
Region ABC
Certification PG
Run time 81 minutes
Actors Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen, Percy Marmont, Glyn Dearman, Sean Barrett and Jennifer Dearman
Produced By Michael Carreras and Alexander Paal
Written By Paul Tabouri
Directed By Terence Fisher
Release Date 1953
Studio Hammer Films Production Ltd

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